{"id":407759,"date":"2021-12-02T09:15:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=407759"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:15:46","slug":"kenya-police-arrest-female-terror-suspect-in-nandi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/kenya-police-arrest-female-terror-suspect-in-nandi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Police arrest female terror suspect in Nandi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya <strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>:The anti-terror police unit in Tinderet, Nandi County have arrested a female suspect linked to the Al-Shabaab militant group.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old suspect\u2019s neighbours in Tinderet alerted police of her \u201csuspicious\u201d activities, leading to her arrest.<br \/>\nThe woman is being held in lawful custody at Soghor police post.<\/p>\n<p>Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said on Twitter on Wednesday, December 1, that the suspect confessed to having stayed in Somalia for two years after she was \u201cabducted\u201d by Al-Shabaab militants in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In Kamalambu Village in Nandi County, she was cohabiting with a middle-aged man, whose whereabouts remain unknown, police said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-ad\">\n<div id=\"hiiraan_incontent_3\" align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__300x250 __336x280\" data-google-query-id=\"CPSIoeDixPQCFUxs0wodcBcJ4Q\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/15184186,30263211\/hiiraan_incontent_3_0__container__\">\n<div class=\"__fs-ancillary\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect confessed to having received [from the Al-Shabaab militants] weapon-handling training. She was also trained on use of explosives and how to take people hostage,\u201d said the DCI on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the suspect had, previously, attempted to join the Kenya Defence Forces, but wasn\u2019t shortlisted.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations into her profile is ongoing, the DCI said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Digital Standard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya (SONNA):The anti-terror police unit in Tinderet, Nandi County have arrested a female suspect linked to the Al-Shabaab militant group. The 22-year-old suspect\u2019s neighbours in Tinderet alerted police of her \u201csuspicious\u201d activities, leading to her arrest. The woman is being held in lawful custody at Soghor police post. Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":407761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-407759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407762,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407759\/revisions\/407762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}