Beware of militants

The specter of Al Shabaab refuses to go away. The National Intelligence Service has brought to the attention of President Uhuru Kenyatta that Al Shabaab militants have shifted their recruitment bases to Western, Nyanza and Western regions.

While originally their preferred area of operation was the coast region where it was easy to recruit indoctrinated Islamic youth by propagating an obscure religious doctrine, security operations by the government and the programme to rehabilitate youth made it hard for the militia’s recruiters to operate freely.