Terror guidelines will help State deal better with menace

Launched this week, new Inter-Agency Anti-Terrorism and Terrorism Financing Guidelines signify a new collaborative strategy by key law enforcement agencies to detect and disrupt future violent attacks, hostage-taking and public anxiety.

Kenya has experienced several horrific attacks on hotels, public malls, roads, villages, universities, and army bases since that 1980 attack on the Norfolk hotel. The dismembered bodies of shoppers lying in Westgate Mall (2013), students in Garissa University (2015) and army officers in Camp Simba (2020) remain the most vivid for me. While the scars, permanent injuries, and mental trauma maybe less public, they remain with every one of those survivors still. Over a thousand innocent human beings have been summarily executed or exploded by active combatants and sleeper cells since 2008.