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4 Al Shabaab terrorists fatally shot in fierce gun exchange with police
03rd June, 2025 12:08 PM
Police have fatally shot four Al Shabaab terrorists in a fierce gun exchange in the Najo and Guracho areas of Garissa County.
In a statement on X, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, the National Police Service (NPS) stated that the operation was conducted by the Special Operations Group (SOG) on Monday, June 2, 2025, who raided terrorist hideouts within the devolved unit.
Four rifles, assorted ammunition, and communication radios were also seized during the operation.
“Upon storming the den, a fierce exchange of fire ensued, overwhelming the Al-Shabaab terrorists. This resulted in four terrorists being fatally shot and the recovery of four AK-47 rifles, one PKM machine gun, assorted ammunition, and communication radios, among other items,” read the statement in part.
This comes a few weeks after two suspects linked to the 2019 Dusit D2 terror attack, which led to the killing of 21 people, were convicted at the Kahawa Law Courts.
In a statement on May 22, 2025, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (ODPP) revealed that Hussein Mohamed Abdille Ali and Mohamed Abdi Ali appeared before Lady Justice Diana Kavedza, who found them guilty on all charges except one of conspiring to commit a terrorist act contrary to the law.
The charges
The ODPP stated that Hussein was convicted of facilitating a terrorist act through payment of Ksh836,900 to one of the killed attackers and an additional 14 counts.
“The court found that he had facilitated the attack by transferring a total of Ksh836,900 via M-Pesa to Ali Salim Gichunge, also known as Farouk or Erick Kinyanjui Munyi, the deceased attacker and a member of the Al Shabaab terrorist group,” read the statement.
“These transactions occurred between October 14, 2018, and January 12, 2019, in the Soko Mbuzi area of Mandera County.”
During the hearing, the prosecution presented a total of 45 witnesses whose testimonies were pivotal in securing the convictions.
They also requested the imposition of the maximum penalty, with sentences to run consecutively rather than concurrently, and called for the cancellation of the bond for the second accused, which was revoked, and the suspect remanded to Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
The court ordered the preparation of a probation report within 21 days, to be submitted by June 17, 2025.
The matter was scheduled for a sentencing hearing on June 19, 2025.
In the recent hearing of the case, the first accused, Mire Abdulahi, previously entered a plea bargain with the prosecution and was duly convicted and sentenced.
The court on January 21, 2025, found that the two suspects had a case to answer.
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