Kenya’s Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) has arrested a Muslim cleric from Marsabit by the name Sheikh Guyo Gorsa alleged to be in communication with terrorists based in Kenya and Somalia. The ATPU has detained the cleric to obtain information about his co-conspirators in a network of terrorists trying to take root in Kenya following the increased onslaught in Somalia and Kenya’s NEP.
Gorsa was arrested due to his influence with the Al Shabaab terror group, recruitment, and radicalization of youths in Marsabit to undertake terror activities. Preliminary investigations by the ATPU prove that Guyo Gorsa’s associates are yet to be apprehended and are being pursued by security officials both in Kenya and Somalia.
According to ATPU, it is believed that the Muslim cleric has other associates who are yet to be apprehended but their arrest is being vigorously pursued by security agencies both within and out of the country.
The Sheikh was arrested in 2014 at the Coast over suspicion of radicalizing the youth and was later released, and it was alleged that he had links to radical groups.
