This archive report was first published on 4 August 2020.
On August 3, 2020, the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) apprehended Tracy Wairimu Ndegwa, a 34-year-old woman suspected of sending threatening letters to a high commission in Nairobi.
The letters, sent on July 31, 2020, were laced with industrial chemicals and pesticides, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI).
Wairimu is being held in custody pending arraignment at Kibera Law Courts once all necessary procedures are completed.
This was the second time the suspect has been arrested in 2020, after being released on bail following a previous incident on June 23, 2020.
On that occasion, she was charged with another terrorism hoax that targeted the Commissioner-General of the Kenya Prisons Service.
The arrest comes weeks after ATPU officers arrested two individuals suspected of being part of a terrorist lair in Eldoret, who were found with explosive devices and detonators.
Kenya lost 83 people in 2019 as a result of terror attacks, a 20% increase from 2018, according to a report by the Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies (Chrips).
