NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan, 24 – A suspected Al-Shabaab operative was arrested by police Sunday after he was caught surveilling a police station and later taking photographs of security officers and their government issued vehicles.
The suspect according to the police officer who reported the matter was shortly after being spotted taking pictures at Makongeni police station in Nairobi arrested.
Shahidi News has established that upon a brief interrogation and perusal of the suspect’s mobile device, police retrieved alarming content that hinted at a possible terror plot in the country’s capital.
The suspect according to his mobile phone’s images, he has been surveilling various key government installations among them the Central bank of Kenya (CBK), the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Headquarters along Kiambu road and several police stations in Nairobi among them Makongeni and Jogoo road police station.
In his gallery, the suspect also had images of the Israeli Embassy.
Police further told Shahidi News that images of Kenyan police officers in various training simulations were recovered as well as images of slain Kenyans by the Al-Shabaab and heavily armed suspected militants.
In a gruesome and macabre video, the suspect is also seen torturing an unknown person while handcuffed.
Due to national security concerns the suspect has since been handed over to the Anti-terror Police Unit (ATPU).
The country has been on a heightened vigilance due to the threat of terror posed by the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab militants.
Northern Kenya has borne the brunt of the vice due its strategic location with Somalia, a situation complicated by a porous border.
Over the recent past, the militants have been targeting communication masts and government installations in Northern Kenya.
Also on the receiving end are civil servants and non-locals working in the expansive region.
This has crippled the education sector and more so after the Teachers Service Commission recalled most of non-locals teachers working in the troubled region.
The local leaders have been engaging in a war of words with the national security agencies of alleged laxity, but Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i has since dismissed their claims.
He is set to hold a meeting with elected leaders from the region in coming days.
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