Sunday, January 15, 2012
Police are still interrogating the 29 Ugandans arrested in a house in Maji Mazuri, Kasarani area.
Police Spokesman Eric Kiraithe said the Ugandans, 27 men and two
women, were headed for Somalia to join the terror group Al-Shabaab.
Mr Kiraithe also said that the security alert remained the same and urged Kenyans to continue being vigilant.
However, he told Kenyans not to panic. “Alerts are
purely for preventive purposes and are not in any way meant to spread
fear,” said Mr Kiraithe.
Mr Kiraithe said that police had intensified
patrols and intelligence gathering within the border to ensure that
there were no repeat attacks on security posts.
However, he said that they had no plans of inviting the Kenya Defence Forces to boost security at the police posts and stations.
He also revealed that the intelligence officer who
was alleged to have been kidnapped in Gerille had been found where he
had escaped to.
Military Spokesman Col Cyrus Oguna said that the
Kenyan mission remained unchanged and repeated that, so far, over 700
militants had been killed.
He assured Kenyans that Operation Linda Nchi will not end until the Al-Shabaab threat is eliminated.
Col Oguna said that on Tuesday, an Al-Shabaab
commander, Abdi Rashid, among other fighters, were killed and three
technicals destroyed.
Later the same day, KDF soldiers on foot patrol
encountered Shabaab militants and, following a shootout, one KDF fighter
was killed and two others injured. KDF used helicopter gunships that
killed six Al-Shabaab militants.