Majority of Kenyans wary of Shabaab attacks, want KDF troops back home

Tom Wolf, Ipsos lead researcher, address members of the press when they released polls on security, devolution and unemployment in Nairobi, Friday. [PHOTO: WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD]

On the eve of the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall, a new opinion poll has been released showing that majority of Kenyans believe that chances of another deadly attack by the Somalia-based al Shabaab militants were "extremely high".

The study shows two in every three Kenyans think they are sitting ducks in the face of the al Qaeda-linked terrorist group. Nearly all those interviewed by Ipsos Kenya Limited (formerly Ipsos Synovate) said al Shabaab was still a danger lurking in the shadows threatening their safety.