Other measures the leaders implement include campaigns against Al Shabaab through all platforms and media outlets and to the wider Somalia community.
Kenya authorities have named one of the gunmen who killed 148 people in a university massacre as an ethnic Somali Kenyan national and law graduate, highlighting the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab’s ability to recruit within the country.
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Interior ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said high-flying Abdirahim Abdullahi was “a university of Nairobi law graduate and described by a person who knows him well as a brilliant upcoming lawyer”.
The spokesman said Abdullahi’s father, a local official in the north-eastern county of Mandera, had “reported to the authorities that his son had gone missing and suspected the boy had gone to Somalia”.
President Kenyatta warned that his government will respond to terror and terrorists in the “severest way never seen before”.
The Head of State blamed the continued terrorist activities to lack of cooperation from the community which fail to provide information to security forces, leading to senseless killings like the one that occurred in Garissa on Thursday.
“It is a fact that our task of countering terrorism work has been made all the more difficult because the planners and financiers are deeply embedded in the communities and were seen as ordinary harmless people. We will not allow them to continue their lives as normal,” he said, vowing that “The full force of the law will be applied with even greater intensity than has been the case previously.”
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