Security agencies have released names and pictures of five wanted Kenyans believed to have been recruited by the al Shabaab militia group as suicide bombers.
The five, including a couple and a former Mathare United football club player, have been on the run and are currently holed up in Somali where it is believed they have been trying to sneak back into the country to commit terrorist attacks.
Security agencies said yesterday that the five have planned a series of attacks in the country on some unspecified buildings. However, the breakthrough by security agencies does not disclose the likely specific targets of terror plot associated with Somalia-based al Shabaab extremist group.
Shamim Wanjiru Hussein has been profiled as a suicide bomber alongside her husband Omar Patroba Juma. Other masterminds are former Mathare United player Anwar Yogan Mwok, Omar Owiti and Ramadhan Kioko.
According to police records, Wanjiru, 26, who was born in Pumwani, Nairobi, has been married to several al Shabaab operatives throughout her years and believed to have left for Somali early this year. “It is believed she (Wanjiru) was recruited for a possible suicide bombing mission.
While the target and timing is unknown, it is likely that Wanjiru will reach out to her friends and family, some of whom live in Nairobi. Kenyan police request the public to provide any information regarding the lady to avert al Shabaab attack plans.”
The report reads in part. Both Juma and Mwok hail from Siaya county and were born in 1982 and 1981 respectively. Mwok is said to have joined Jeysh Ayman in 2013, a coastal based al Shabaab active cell that has its focus dedicated to soft Lamu based targets affiliated to al Shabaab insurgency group.
Owiti and Kioko who were part of the foiled Baure attack in Lamu early this year but survived and fled are also wanted. Kioko is said to have joined the terror group in 2008 while Owiti joined in 2013.
During the attack, two Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) officers lost their lives with 11 al Shabaab fighters also perishing among them Thomas Evans, a 25-year-old British citizen.
In June this year, the national spy agency, National Intelligence Service (NIS) furnished the National Police Service with the identity, photos and particulars of the two most wanted terrorist suspects, a German national Ahmed Mueller, Juma and Kioko believed to have orchestrated the botched attack at Baure Military Camp.
Mueller’s listing into the most wanted police watch group of possible exported terrorists is the second case following the killing of British-born jihadist Thomas Anthony Evans alias Abdul Hakim who was among those killed during the botched attack.
According to police investigations, Kioko lived in the crime- prone Majengo area, one of the profiled terror cells in Nairobi and a known mugger within the Nairobi Central Business District three years ago before he disappeared.
Jeysh Ayman aka Majmo Ayman aka Ayman Group is an al Shabaab affiliated militia formation of approximately 160-well trained fighters. It operates from Somalia and carries out raids on the Kenyan security outposts on the common border.
The group was founded by one Maalim Ayman aka Abdiaziz Dubow Ali, a Kenyan Somali from Mandera county and is mostly made up of Kenyan nationals, Somalis and some foreign fighters.
The leader of the group who was among those killed in past KDF attacks is Luqman Osman Issa, alongside his close associates that include Said Abdalla Hemed (Kenyan) and Thomas Anthony Evans aka Musa UK ( British National). Issa aka Shirwa was born on August 6, 1984 in Mombasa and was the group’s coordinator and facilitator.
His profiled associates are Farah Abdi Farah of Musa Mosque, who was arrested in Kiunga en-route to Somalia, Abdifatah Abubakar Abdi alias Musa alias Musa Muhajir, a commander of the Jesh Ayman within the Boni Forest.
His brother Issa Osman Issa, an Al Qaeda operative in East Africa was part of the terror group that was involved in the Kikambala Paradise Hotel bombing in 2002 and a close associate to Mohammed Abdulkadir aka Ikrima.
He is among the wanted individuals the Government had circulated with a price tag of Sh2 million bounty. Said Abdallah Hemed alias Abu Maryam alias Said Marhaba is associated with Marhaba Safari Tours and Travel Company including undertaking brokerage activities of buying and selling motor vehicles, buildings.
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