Friday, May 30, 2014
GARISSA, (Xinhua) -- Police officers display illicit drugs impounded in Garissa, northeastern Kenya, May 27, 2014. The drugs were impounded from three terror suspects who were arrested at a house in Garissa town. XINHUA PHOTO: STEPHEN INGATI
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GARISSA, Kenya, (Xinhua) -- Police in northern Kenya’s town of Garissa on Tuesday arrested three key suspected terrorists with stones of bang worth 11,500 U.S. dollars impounded.Garissa Deputy Commissioner Dominic Kyenza told a news conference in Garissa that police have been closing down on the three for “a while” and believe they have been behind recent terror activities in Garissa which borders Somalia.
“We have enough evidence linking the three to terror activities not only in Garissa but entire northern Kenya. The three have been working together with the other two that we arrested last week on Friday,” said Kyenza.
He said the three, two Kenyans identified as Said Salim Abubakar and Mohamed Hussein Ahmed, and an alien Awes Ali Dubow, were traced by the police to a house in Bula Punda, 4 km from Garissa town with 54 stones of bang wrapped in a polythene paper bag.
The administrator said that the trio has been working with other criminals in the region to cause havoc.
“We have all along believed that those who hurl grenades do so under the influence of some substance. It was just a matter of time before we arrested those supplying bang,” said Kyenza.
He further said that police were still investigating how one Dubow sneaked in Garissa town adding that they believe he was a key supplier of the hand grenades that have been used to harm people.
The three were later escorted to the police station where they were locked up as they await further interrogation before being arraigned in court.
Police in Garissa have in the last few days enhanced heir operation to nab criminals and suspected terrorists last week’s grenade attack incident where ten people were injured at a local hotel.
On Friday, police arrested two people they described as terror suspects. Police recovered an AK 47 riffle, 27 bullets and two magazines from the two.
Security apparatus in the border towns of Mandera, Garissa and Moyale including Wajir have also stepped up security measures with the latest arrest coming on Monday where two suspected terrorists were arrested en route to Mandera.
Several areas in the northern Kenya that borders Somalia have been the target of terrorists who kill innocent citizens, as well as security officers and other government officials, using either gunfire or grenades.
Security personnel patrolling the Somalia border have been with a series of explosive attacks since Kenya sent its troops to fight Al-Shabaab inside Somalia, often killing or injuring officers.