Fake terror alerts on social media demonstrate the level of despondency among Kenyans. Their genesis is in the Al Shabaab attacks in Lamu and Garissa, in which several people were killed on the day they were primed to welcome the New Year, and perhaps, new promising beginnings.
Considering previous attacks on Garissa University, dusitD2 Nairobi, buses in Mandera, quarry workers and the Westgate mall in Nairobi, among others, to slight any warning on an impending attack is injudicious.