Terrorists have managed to rob Kenya of its most intelligent youths after they fell into their traps set up at local universities. Sunday Nation reveals. The youth have been trafficked from Kenya to Libya where most of them have been killed in battles as women languished as sex slaves to the terrorists. Those who have survived the wars are now struggling to return to the country.
The Nation newspaper reports that ”security agencies – Kenya Police Service, Immigration department, Directorate of Criminal Investigations, National Intelligence Service, Probation Department and Kenya Prisons – are grappling with the calls for youngsters who have survived the terror network and are willing to return home”.
A dispatch shared among security arms in Kenya and accessed by the Sunday Nation describes a grim picture of the lives of these youths in the hands of militants.
Last month, two medical students from Kenya, Farah Dagane Hassan, 26, and Hiish Ahmed Ali, 25, were killed in Libya during a sting operation against Islamic State terrorists.
The two were on the most wanted list after it was alleged that they were planning chemical terror attacks in Kenya. It is feared that Kenyan universities have become a breeding ground for terrorists who get radicalized in the institutions before relocating to war-torn states such as Syria and Somalia.
Anthony Kiprop Rotich aka Abdul Hakim Kiprotich, Hassan Ahmed Waqo Bonaya and Mahmoaud Mohamed Abubakar Mbarak who all studied at Moi University are said to be at large, concerning Kenyan security apparatus.
“The world is grappling with a rise in radicalization and movement of youth to terrorist theaters of Syria, Libya and Somalia.
“Members of the public must be on the lookout for radical elements who are seeking to mislead Kenyan youth and send them to terrorist arenas.
“While this trend is not rampant in Kenya as has been observed in other countries, some Kenyan youth have left the country to fight alongside Isis terrorists,” the dispatch reads as reported by Nation.
Some parents are said to have contacted security agencies after receiving phone calls demanding ransom for the release of their children, mostly women whose ”husbands” died in the wars.
The women are said to have undergone terrible experiences in Syria. The document mentions Firthoza Ali Ahmed aka Firdaus who “After being brainwashed and promised a better life, she decided to travel in March 2015. In the company of Zeitun Ali Ahmed, Firthoza began her journey to join Isis in Syria via Turkey.
The students are promised better lives and brainwashed to believe that everything would work out fine.
According to the report, a human trafficking cartel that operates in Kenya is named. The reports names the Magafe network as an organization that Isis relies on for the trafficking of recruits. It says: “For those who are weak and whose organs cannot be harvested nor be sold to Isis, ransom is demanded from their families.”
So far, investigators have identified 10 routes used by the Magafe network to hail radicalized youth from Kenya to Syria and Libya.