This archive report was first published on 7 January 2020.
Published on January 7, 2020, The Standard reported that police in Nanyuki had arrested three men who attempted to force their way into a British Army camp on Sunday.
The men, in their 20s, were captured on CCTV cameras at the camp and their images circulated, prompting police officers to launch a manhunt. According to Laikipia county commissioner Daniel Nyameti, the suspects were not armed and were arrested near the Nanyuki police station later in the day.
The British Army Training Unit in Kenya (Batuk) camp is located on the Nanyuki-Rumuruti road in the outskirts of Nanyuki town. It is situated next to Laikipia Airbase after its relocation from the Nanyuki Agricultural Society of Kenya (ASK) showground.
The arrest came three days after Al Shabaab militants attacked a military base used by Kenya and US forces at Camp Simba in Manda, Lamu County. At least four terrorists were killed in the raid that came a week after the US Embassy in Nairobi issued a warning that a terrorist attack was imminent in Kenya.
Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the 4am attack at the camp established in 2004 to serve as a US Forwarding Operating Location (FOL) centre for training exercises with Kenya Naval Special Forces. It is also a base for US Special Operations Force (SOF) in Somalia.
Meanwhile, in Nakuru, Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) detectives are interrogating two aliens found in the town without valid travel documents. The two male suspects, aged 40 and 31, were arrested on Sunday evening at a roadblock in Barnabas area on the Nakuru-Nairobi highway.
Confirming the arrests, Nakuru Town East deputy police commander Phanton Analo said the two were travelling in a public service vehicle from Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana to Nairobi. They claimed to have forgotten their documents at the refugee camp.
