Police on patrol Tuesday night at around 11:20 PM pounced on a terror suspect within Nairobi’s central business district.
The officers from Kamukunji Police Station were on regular patrol when they noticed a man whose erratic behavior roused their attention.
NPS noted that the suspect’s erratic behavior attracted the attention of the police officers, prompting them to question him.
“His evasive and erratic behaviour attracted the attention of alert officers from Kamukunji Police Station, prompting them to question him and inspect the contents of a bag in his possession,” reads part of a post on the DCI official handle.
The officers searched the suspect and found him in possession of detonators, several packets of a white substance, and a five-meter-long electric cable.
“Upon a further search, the 22-year-old suspect was found to be carrying 21 detonators, along with 21 packets of a white substance suspected to be ammonium nitrate, a five-metre-long electric cable, and other items,” the DCI post indicated.
The suspect was immediately detained and subsequently handed over to the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) for further interrogations.
The arrest of the suspected terrorist comes barely days following the killing by security organs of two suspected Al-Shabaab militants during an operation along the Alungu-Elwak road in Mandera County.
The elite Special Operations Group carried out a pre-dawn raid after receiving credible intelligence that the militants were in the final stages of laying explosives on the busy road.
During the operation, officers recovered two AK-47 rifles, a Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG) warhead, and a fully assembled IED.
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