Revealed: How traders use private militias to smuggle in contraband goods from Somalia

Policemen patrol the streets of Garissa town where most goods smuggled from Somalia are believed to be repackaged. (Photo:File/Standard)

On the evening of January 12, 2012, armed militants invaded Gerille Administration Police camp on the border between Kenya and Somalia in Wajir.

The jungle-clad militants killed seven people. Al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the audacious evening raid in which it abducted two Government officials. It said it had carried out the attack to revenge Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) invasion of southern Somalia on October 16, 2011. The militants wanted KDF soldiers withdrawn.