The Kenyan police have revealed the Nairobi spots targeted by a terror group which intended to launch a bomb attack in the Capital.
According to the police, the suspects purposed to start with the Supreme Court which was to be the epicenter of the bomb attack.
That would have been followed by successive explosions at the Kenyatta International Convention Center, Parliament Buildings, County Hall, Technical University of Kenya, Central Bus Station, Jeevanjee Gardens, Serena Hotel, The University of Nairobi and Milimani Law Courts.
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According to a document profiling the suspects, it was also disclosed that one Abdimajit Hassan Adan worked closely with Anthony Kitila Makau, Mohamed Osman Nane, John Kiarie, and Lydia Nyawira Mburu.
Abdimajit was arrested in Isiolo driving a vehicle laden with a total of 110 kilograms of Trinitrotoluene (TNT) explosives, five AK-47 rifles, 36 gun magazines, three modified Nokia phones, 36 unprimed hand grenades, 18 pairs of grenade primers, five military-grade projectiles, and three military knives.
The document further noted that Abdimajit traveled to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab in early 2015 where he underwent training in various camps and carried out some 'assignments' in Somalia and in Kenya.
“He procured the vehicles that were to be used, sourced for safe houses, and facilitated the movement of the vehicle laden with explosives to Nairobi from El-Adde in Somalia through Elwak and Merti,” reads part of the document.
Police believe that in late September 2017, Dhere, a senior Al-Shabaab commander in Jilib, informed Abdimajit that he was to travel to Nairobi, rent a house and obtain a driving licence within the shortest time possible.
A month later, Dhere gave Abdimajit the equivalent of Ksh300,000 in US dollars and saw him off to Nairobi.
Inspector General of police Joseph Boinnet exclaimed that had the plot succeeded, it would have caused massive infrastructural devastation, deaths, and injuries.
“Typically, terrorists prefer ramming an armed vehicle into a gate or main entrance to the target to avoid premature detonation,” Boinnet asserted.
The five are to be arraigned in Milimani Law Courts on Thursday.
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