When Kenya police arrested Siyad Mohamud Shire the Consular General of Somali Embassy in Kenya, they had enough reasons to arrest him, intelligence reports show.
The police have been
putting tabs on communication between diplomats and terror cells depending on several high value terror cells arrested by the Anti-terror police and based on intelligence provided by the National Intelligence Service.
Somalia is a neighbor and surely, Kenya government is not so irrational that it could risk xenophobia by making arrests without evidence that is credible and reasonable enough to factor such arrests. Analysts at Strategic Intelligence argue.
It is not a myth that diplomats have been used in countries like Lebanon and across the world to facilitate terror attacks, argues David James a director of intelligence analysis.
It is an international law that diplomats are immune to arrests but not when there is an overwhelming coarse body of intelligence confirming links to certain sensitive issues.
The arrests of Consular General of Somali Embassy in Kenya Siyad Mohamud Shire and a third in command at the Embassy in January is terror linked.
Somalia has since then asked the ambassador to fly home along Mr Siyad Mohamud Shire to debrief them on the arrests.
Of course Nairobi has given Mogadishu the key points that led to these arrests and that will be the basis of their decisions.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has however denied that there are tensions, which indeed is the truth here. What is truly profound is that Nairobi has furnished him with relevant intelligence about these scenarios and he will act on them.
However Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Somalia is concerned about how Kenya is treating Somali citizens in Kenya.
