List Of 9 Kenyans Whose Assets Have Been Frozen Over Terror Links

By Getrude Matayo

Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiang’i has unmasked key influential businessmen and leaders in northern Kenya, accused of funding terrorism.

CS Matiang’i ordered the freezing of funds and property belonging to nine individuals believed to have been supporting terrorism in Kenya.

According to CS Fred Matiang’i, the nine individuals are part of the Al-Shabaab network and have been financing the terror group in Kenya.

They include; Halima Ali, Waleed Zein, Sheikh Boru, Mohammed Ali, Nuseiba Haji, Abdimajit Hassan, Mohammed Ali Abdi, Muktar Ali, and Mire Elmi.

Matiang’i said they will continue to disrupt terrorist operations with a sole focus on bringing to book the perpetrators. He added that terrorism knows no bounds. We shall neither surrender into the hands of terrorism nor play into the narrative propounded by terrorists.

On his statement, CS Fred Matiang’i said that the only way to deny terrorists the means to threaten our way of life is to choke their facilitation networks.

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Last year, the government created special forums to fight extremism across the country. The initiative is meant to end the radicalization and recruitment of youth into terrorism.

No further details were given about the individuals named or the kind of business they do but security sources said most of them are influential business figures from the north.

“We already have a national strategy for countering violent extremism. The government has issued directives that the strategy should equally be replicated at the county level,” NCTC official Wilson Jenga said.

Kenya has suffered the wrath of Al Shabaab in several attacks along the border towns of Garissa, Mandera, and Lamu where they target security forces and in the capital Nairobi and the coastal town of Mombasa.

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