Al-Shabaab militants attacked a GSU camp in Lamu on Monday night, just hours after President Uhuru Kenyatta issued a shoot-to-kill order.
Details of their latest raid on Mukowe GSU camp are still scanty but it appears like a retaliatory attack to sound a warning to the President.
However, reports indicate there were no casualties from the attack.
Speaking on Monday at Kizingitini in Lamu County, the President ordered that the terrorists be killed and buried.
“We shall finish them,” he said of the terrorists who have turned Boni Forest into a playground, attacking and killing locals before retreating there.
A visibly angry President also implied that Public Works Principal Secretary Mariam El Maawy, who was last week abducted, shot and injured by the terrorists, could have been targeted for issuing title deeds to locals.
Ms Maawy was rescued by Kenya Defence Forces after the militants took control of her vehicle before killing her bodyguard, driver and nephew.
Two other people were also killed.
Mombasa County Commissioner Nelson Marwa on Monday claimed that the recent wave of attacks in Lamu were politically instigated, vowing to crack down on the politicians funding the militia group.
