HOW AL-SHABAAB PLOTTED TO KILL RAILA ODINGA

Reports have emerged over how Kenyan authorities thwarted plans by the terrorist group Al-Shabaab to kill former Prime Minister Raila Odinga

Spies for the group reported during a meeting on January 24, 2013, that “the former Prime Minister had at times travelled in Nairobi without his security detail”.

The group also had retired President Mwai Kibaki on their hit list and frequently visited Nyeri to identify the President’s routine between June and October 2012

This was unearthed as Kenya issued her submissions to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in February on the Indian Ocean boundary case with Somalia.

“Al-Shabaab aspirations to violently overthrow the Kenya state predate the Kenya Defence Forces official incursion into Somalia in 2011,” reads the report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea pursuant to a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution in 2013.

Extracts from the report, which was filed with the UNSC in October 2014, cite audio from Somalia by Al Hijra’s ‘Amir’ Ahmad Iman in December 2010 that exposes the plot against the Kenyan leaders.

Amir warned the Kenyan government against its covert intervention under “Operation Linda Mpaka,” according to a restricted Directorate of Military Intelligence document detailing KDF’s mission in Somalia obtained by the Monitoring Group in 2011.

In the audio, Amir says “strap the bombs on me and let me blow myself up in the Parliament building of Kenya, let not anyone survive. Even Kibaki….”

Source: Japang’o tv