Something not unusual happened in Isiolo last week. As they have done countless times before, police rounded up a group of young men accusing them of being Al Shabaab followers or sympathisers.
The accused were later released and the accusations dropped in a puzzling turn of events. Sometime ago, another group of young men from the same county were rounded up by people suspected to be law enforcement officers. Those ones were unlucky. No word has been heard from them since.