It has also emerged that the Coast region has no single rehabilitation centre for Al-Shabaab returnees despite being a radicalisation and terror recruitment hotspot. The committee’s chairman John Elungata says that radicalisation has been going on with the “normal” criminal groups being the new drivers of terror-related activities. Suspected Al Shabaab returnees have now joined criminal gangs that are behind series of robberies targeting businesses in Coast, Nation has learnt. Mr Karisa, 28, has been taken for interrogation by Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) officers based at the Coast. TERROR RECRUITSCoast region security committee says returnees have been infiltrating criminal groups.

Source: Daily Nation April 29, 2019 08:37 UTC