Rapid Deployment Unit thwarted five Al-Shabaab attacks in April

Senior Superintendent Mohammed Sheikh Abdi and another security officer in Wajir Town recently. He is the commander of Rapid Deployment Unit based in Wajir Town, formed to fight Al-Shabaab terrorists. [PHOTO: BONIFACE ONGERI/STANDARD]

Wajir, Kenya - On the rainy night of April 9, Senior Superintendent *Ali Hussein (not his real name) received a distress call informing him that suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen were scaling the wall of a residential building in Wajir Town.

The caller said some of the gunmen were ripping off iron-sheet from the roof, in an attempt to gain access into a house, where a group of Christian tenants had locked themselves in.