Nakumatt enhances security following terror alert

By CYRUS OMBATILeading chain supermarket Nakumatt Holdings has moved to enhance security across its 28 branches in the wake of terror alert in the country.The supermarket said internal and external security measures have been significantly beefed up following the recent sounding of a high alert on terrorism by police.Nakumatt Holdings Managing director Atul Shah explained among other specific elements, the firm has increased its security surveillance using its internal security personnel, contracted security solution providers coupled by CCTV surveillance at the branch level and remotely."As of March 2, 2011, Nakumatt Holdings and all our respective landlords have taken steps to beef our security systems and processes in all our 28 branches as we remain on high alert," Shah explained.He said safety of the shoppers and staff is their priority and measures have been put up to ensure that.Commissioner of police Mathew Iteere called on Kenyans to be vigilant in malls, social places and Public Service Vehicles in the wake of the threats issued on grounds that Kenya was training Somalia government forces and also allowing the Ethiopian troops to operate from its border towns."I would wish to take this opportunity to assure the public that in conjunction with other security services, we have taken measures to provide adequate security. However we wish to advice those responsible for security in shopping malls, hotels, PSV Station and all other social places where the public is admitted, to be more vigilant at this time," Iteere said.Al-Shabaab, aligned to al-Qaeda reiterated that it would attack Kenya for supporting an enemy. "Kenya has constantly disturbed us and now it should face the consequences of allowing Ethiopian troops to attack us from Mandera town," Al-shaabab spokesman Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage told a news conference.And on Monday police said seven Kenyans recently trained by Somalia’s Al Shabaab militia are on the loose in Kenya and could be planning terrorist operations.It is alleged there is a wide terror network in Kenya and that some of these suspects aided last July’s terrorist attack on Somalia claimed by the extremist group with links to Al Qaida.The list includes John Mwanzia Ngui alias Yahya and David Kihuho Wangechi alias Yusuf who are dead and Eric Achayo Ogada alias Swaleh Ibrahim, Steven Mwanzi Osaka alias Duda Brown, Jeremiah Okumu also known as Duba Black or Mohamed.Others in the list are Sylvester Opiyo Osodo aka Musa, Abbas Hussen Nderito, Ibrahim Ruta also known as Musyoki Kyondi.Police headquarters also named Abdulrahman Mutua Daud, Abbas Muhamad Mwai and Juma Ayub Otit Were are terrorist suspects moving between Somalia and Kenya.The government says the two deceased accomplices had undergone radicalization and received military training "in Al Shabaab camps" inside Somalia and has appealed to the public to assist apprehend those within Kenya.Together with two suspects police allege shot and killed two policemen at Roysambu in Nairobi on December 3 last year before being killed the seven are believed to have commissioned, aided or participated in the June 13, December 3 and December 20 bomb attacks in Nairobi’s Uhuru Park, Eastleigh estate and Kampala Coach Bus Stage in which a policeman and seven civilians were killed.Police said two suspects John Mwanzia Ngui aka Yahya and David Kihuho Wangechi aka Yusuf killed police officers Arthur Kamuga and Genson Mutuma on December 3 last year after "recently" returning from military training in Somalia.Yahya was born in Mwingi in 1984 and raised a Christian before converting to Islam in 2008.Police said Yahya and Yusuf traveled to Somalia on undisclosed dates for military training with Yahya returning from there last May [leaving Yusuf behind] to aid the Uganda bombing. Yahya, reportedly left Uganda for Somalia, a week after the bombing that killed over 70 Ugandans, Ethiopians and Eritreans.

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