Kenyan security agencies intensify their hunt for an Italian woman kidnappers

NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – Kenyan security agencies have intensified operations to hunt the assailants in an attack that led to the abduction of an Italian woman last month.
The police have arrested over 22 individuals including a politician and a soldier in connection with the kidnapping of Italian aid worker Silvia Constanza Romano intensifies.
According to the local media, Member of County Assembly and a senior Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officer were put behind bars as the search to rescue the white woman intensify within and around the expansive Boni forest into which her abductors are said to have disappeared.
Tana River assembly nominated MCA Dumal Haji Osman, and sergeant Abdullahi Bille was identified as suspects detained.
A multi-agency security team comprising of police and army units has reportedly sealed off Boni forest and the areas bordering Lamu, Garissa and Tana River counties in search of the bandits who also injured five locals at Chakama in Kilifi during the ambush.
Police believe that Ms Romano is still alive in the hands of the abductors following reports from the herders among the Orma community of seeing the abductors in the forest wearing ‘Buibui’ outfit.
The source also dismissed possibilities that the abductors might have crossed with Ms Romano into Somalia.
“We suspect they are in hiding somewhere in the forest waiting for the heat to die down before proceeding with their journey,” said a police source who spoke to the local media.
Silvia was abducted in remote Chakama village where she was in charge of Africa Milele Onlus orphanage and organisation where she had reported about two weeks earlier.
Other foreigners on the property left a day hurriedly before the November 20 raid.