Anti-terror officer coordinated arms smuggling in Lamu attacks, says report

A police officer at a scene of an attack in Mpeketoni, Lamu County

The police oversight authority has implicated an anti-terrorism police officer in the Mpeketoni massacre and said authorities failed to act on intelligence provided in July 2013, about 11 months before the attacks.

The just released report by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) on Mpeketoni attacks says though the National Police Service (NPS) denied being aware of planned attacks, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) had intelligence reports on the violence. And in a damning revelation that highlights how national security has been compromised, the report claims an officer of a crack unit tasked with fighting terrorism was the one coordinating arms smuggling by the terrorists.