Interior Cabinet Secretary, Fred Matiang'i, was cagey with his response on whether the government will give the Ksh60 million cash reward promised to anyone who provided information that would lead to the arrest of three terror convicts.
Speaking at the Kamiti Maximum Prison while receiving the convicts, Matiang'i remained non-committal on whether the government would award the cash to a man who claimed to have found the trio and led police to their location.
The CS asked Kenyans not to be speculative on the issue but wait for the government's response on the issue.
"No...no...no, we are not going there at the moment. Let us not be speculative about this. We are going to work on this meticulously as my colleagues have said," Matiang'i stated.
He quickly digressed on the question asked and went on to speak on measures the government was taking to avoid a repeat of the incident.
The trio, Musharraf Abdalla, Joseph Juma and Mohammed Abdi, were reportedly trying to flee to the neighbouring country of Somalia when they were nabbed by police officers and locals of the Endau area of Mwingi County.
A man by the name Paul Mwaniki is said to have led villagers and police officers to capture the trio.
Mwaniki pleaded with the government to fulfill it's promise by giving him the bounty that was placed on each head.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) offered a cash reward of Ksh60 million for information leading to the arrest of the three escapees.
"A reward of Ksh60 million will be offered to anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of the following three terror suspects, who escaped from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison today at 1am," the police stated on Monday, November 15.
Sources who spoke to Kenyans.co.ke revealed that the trio was having a meal at a local joint when residents noticed them and alerted the police.
They had allegedly bought packets of milk, bottled water, bread and biscuits from local shops and paid in cash.
