This archive report was first published on 21 December 2019.
On December 11, 2019, Chief Mohamed Haji Famau and his assistant Malik Athman Shee were brutally hacked to death in Mbwajumwali village, Lamu County.
According to a police brief obtained by the Nation, one of the assailants is terror suspect Kassim Ahmed Ali, a brown-skinned young man.
“Police reports indicate that Kassim was positively identified by the public as one of the attackers who carried out the gruesome hacking of the two local administrators,” reads the police statement.
Mr. Ali had earlier been arrested by the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) in March 2016 while he was allegedly on his way to Libya to join the terror group, Isis.
He was arrested alongside three other terror suspects at Bumala Police roadblock in Busia County and later charged with being a member of Al-Shabaab.
Police are now calling on any member of the public with information on Mr. Ali's whereabouts to report to the nearest police station.
