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Review travel advisories, they are hurting Kenya consider a review

For the better part of 2014, the Al-Shabaab militia group operating from neighbouring Somalia subjected Kenya to terrorist attacks that left many bewildered and put the police and other security agencies in bad stead from their apparent inability to contain them.

From the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Westlands to attacks in Eastleigh, Garissa, Mandera and Mpeketoni in Lamu County, the despondency created among the citizenry was such that they lost confidence in the ability of the Government to provide adequate security. The resultant bewilderment even saw the Government attempt to shift blame to the opposition.

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