Six suspected terrorists arrested in Kwale County

Police have arrested six terror suspects in Kwale County.

The suspects arrested on Tuesday are said to have escaped another police operation on Monday. They are believed to be part of a group that has been killing community leaders involved in campaigns against radicalisation.

At least four local leaders were killed under controversial circumstances by unknown attackers early this month.

Police said there is a group of people that is also fighting integration of youths who have ditched Somalia-based Al Shabaab terror group.

Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet said the operation would continue to ensure the group is wiped out. "They have been targeting those trying to reintegrate the returnees by killing them. We will not allow that to continue," said Boinnet.

More than 200 youths, a majority of them from Coastal region, have returned from Somalia where they had joined the terror group.

Some of them said they came back after realising conditions in Somalia were bad and inhabitable.

Meanwhile, one of the Kenyans beheaded by Al Shabaab militants in Somalia recently after being accused of spying on them was a university graduate.

Thirty-year-old Jared Mokaya Omambia, alias Abdulaziz, was an Information Technology graduate, class of 2013, in one of the local universities.

Omambia and Abdul Majid Faraj, 22, were beheaded after Al Shabaab suspected they were spying for Kenyan security agencies.

"After his secondary education, he went to Isebania, Migori County, in search of a job. It was while in Isebania that Jared was introduced to Islam. He later got converted and changed his name to Abdulaziz," says a police report.

Omambia was born in Cheptiret, Uasin Gishu County, but grew up in Kitale, Trans Nzoia County.