Lenku meets chiefs as GSU team arrives

The Interior Cabinet Secretary Thursday held a meeting with Malindi chiefs and police bosses to come up with ways of preventing more attacks.

It is understood that intelligence had indicated the area south of Mpeketoni and north of Malindi could be targeted by the gang that killed dozens this week.

Mr Joseph ole Lenku was accompanied by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr David Kimaiyo.

Mr Lenku is scheduled to travel to Nairobi while Mr Kimaiyo will remain behind to take charge of the operation.

Meanwhile, General Service Unit (GSU) officers have been sent to areas close to Mpeketoni to hunt down the Sunday and Monday night attackers believed to have sought refuge in forests.

They were ferried to the town in helicopters and lorries.

There were six lorries full of officers.

Meanwhile, a man who was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion that he drove one of the vehicles used in the Sunday attack was reported to have led police to a spot in Pangani where two more bodies were recovered.

Mr Salim Dyana was reportedly driving the terrorists’ first vehicle and knew the spot where the bodies of the two drivers whose 14-seater vans were taken were dumped.

Pangani is about 15 kilometres south of Mpeketoni on the road to Witu. The bodies are believed to be of brothers.

Police traced Mr Dyana and arrested him in a hospital on Lamu Island. It was not immediately clear how he was traced or linked to the attacks.

After he was arrested, Mr Dyana said his sugar level was high. A doctor was brought to monitor him during questioning. He was also walking with a limp.