NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – Kenyan law enforcement agencies have issued a security alert amid hundreds of troops deployed near Kenya’s border with Somalia.
In a statement, Imenti North Deputy county commissioner Isaac Masinde said Al-Shabaab dispatch some of its fighters to attack premises in Maru region.
Mr. Masinde pointed out that the operatives directed to storm an undisclosed premise in the region.
“They are believed to be holed up at an undisclosed premise where they are planning how to execute their attacks to commemorate their fallen heroes on an unspecified date,” Masinde said.
Masinde said a Somali businessman who operated in Meru and North Eastern is believed to be harbouring Al-Shabaab.
“They are targeting prime targets like departmental stores (supermarket) institutions of higher learning, churches, government institutions (offices/hospitals) among others,” he said.
Kenya formally sent 4,660 soldiers to Somalia in October 2011 after incessant attacks and kidnapping of civilians by the militants within its territory.
Since then Al-Shabaab conducts frequent assaults in Kenya, mostly in the region bordering Somalia, to put pressure on the Kenyan government to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Somalia.
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