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Coast Al-Shabaab recruits snub Nkaissery's offer for amnesty

Terror suspects Salim Salmin Fara (left), Said Mohammed Shee (second left) and Salim Ayub (second right) chat the way forward with Haki Africa’s Human Rights Co-ordinator Francis Auma in February. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

MOMBASA: Most Al-Shaabab recruits have been reluctant to take up the Government's offer for amnesty.

Suspected radicalised youth in Mombasa, Kwale and Kilifi counties, which have had the most terrorist attacks and assassinations, have not stepped forward as requested by Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery.

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