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| Hundreds of suspects await security screening at the Changamwe Police Station in Mombasa Sunday. [Photo: Maarufu Mohamed/Standard] |
By Benard Sanga and Philip Mwakio Mombasa, Kenya:
More than 100 illegal immigrants
from Somalia and other countries were arrested in parts of Mombasa on Saturday
night as the anti-terror operation spread to the Coast.
Hundreds of officers from the Anti-
terrorism Police Unit, General Service Unit and other police forces accompanied
by immigration officers swept into Changamwe and Nyali estates in trucks and
ordered doors opened.
They demanded identification papers
and seized those without Kenyan papers but also took away those suspected to
have forged Identity Cards.
Police claim most of those arrested
had just arrived in Changamwe to hide after sneaking through the police
operation in Nairobi’s Eastleigh Estate on Friday.
Intelligence sources told The
Standard that besides aliens, the operation also targeted terror suspects,
human traffickers and terror financiers based on intelligence supplied by some
businessmen and the Somalia government.
Nominated MP Sunjeev Birdi said the
Government should not relent in the anti-terror operation, adding that stopping
the crackdown will “allow terrorists to regroup.” But police also disclosed
that a second raid on the Mogadishu Estate in Nyali yielded nothing because
targeted aliens had already escaped before the operation.
This came amid fears that Al Shabaab
militants linked to slain radical islamist Sheikh Makaburi have chosen a
firebrand cleric from Majid Musa to replace him within Al Hijra, Al Shabaab’s
Kenyan affiliate which Makaburi led.
Source: standardmedia.co.ke
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