She was also arrested in 2014 alongside her two brothers Ibrahim Kaluime, Ali Dzivo

Police on 17th November 2017 arrested two youths namely; Malhassan Hassan Hussein and Anthony Mwangi Maina aka Hassan Juleybib who were on their way to Somalia to join the Al-Shabaab terror group.

The two were arrested in Mombasa following a tip off from members of the public. All two have a history of terror –related activities and linkages with other terrorists and hard-core criminals, some of whom are currently serving lengthy sentences in Kenyan prisons.

Malhassan, a suspected ISIS sympathizer, has once been arrested on terrorism related charges in 2015, while she was en-route to Somalia via Boni forest. She was also arrested in 2014 alongside her two brothers Ibrahim Kaluime and Ali Dzivo, and her close friend Mariam Nur, while heading to Somalia to join Al Shabaab.

Reliable sources from within security agencies have confided that Malhassan was one of the key suspects in facilitating an attempted prison break at Shimo la Tewa prison in July, 2013 in which incarcerated terror prisoners were to escape.

Malhassan is a close friend to Thabit Jamaldin Yahya who is now imprisoned, serving a life sentence for her role in the Bella Vista restaurant attack in Mombasa in 2012.

Mwangi Maina aka Juleybib is one of the leaders of a Korogocho-based criminal group. This criminal group has been implicated in several attacks against security officials on patrol in various parts of Nairobi and its environs.

Some of the group’s activities are suspected to be linked to a terror cell in Isiolo. A successful operation by the police in the month of September 2017 targeting terror cells in Nairobi, Isiolo, Garissa, Wajir and Mandera resulted in the arrest of several group members.

However, Juleybib managed to escape and went underground and later resurfaced in El-Wak, Mandera County.

In late October 2017, Juleybib was reported by his parents to be among Al Shabaab recruits who were planning to leave for Somalia.

The police are calling on the public to continue volunteering information on suspected sympathisers of Al Shabaab or youth prone to radicalization.

This, they say, will help the country to win the war against Al Shabaab and other terrorists.