Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) officers held a terror suspect believed to have been behind a gang that killed a police officer and two chiefs in 2019.
A statement by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Sunday evening indicated that the suspect was cornered during an operation along Lamu-Malindi Road.
The suspect was among passengers in the bus headed to Malindi when the officers mounted an operation and arrested him.
The Malindi-bound bus was waylaid by the officers who were working alongside their Special Operations Group (SOG) counterparts at the Sambaki Bridge road block.
"A wanted terror suspect involved in the brutal killings of a police officer and two chiefs in Lamu County in December 2019 has been arrested," DCI announced.
"The suspect was flushed out of a Malindi-bound bus in a Sunday afternoon operation by Anti-Terrorism Police augmented by their Special Operations Group (SOG) counterparts."
According to the authorities, the suspect and his accomplices had committed the heinous murders in December 2019.
They immediately ran into Boni Forest to hide before they were forced to seek refuge in a neighbouring country when officers flushed them out.
"In April 2023, three members of his gang dared a return into the country but were intercepted and arrested along the Isiolo-Moyale highway while heading to Somalia.
"They were charged at the Kahawa Law Courts and their case is ongoing," added the DCI statement.
The authorities further revealed that a hunt for several suspects still at large was still ongoing.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki had earlier vowed a crackdown that would weed out all criminal elements in Lamu County.
