Police have identified the leader of a terrorist network that was planning what could be one of Kenya’s deadliest terror attacks a week ago.
27-year old Mbarak Abdi Huka has been identified as the leader of the terrorist cell organizing a massive city bombing.
Huka was killed on February 15 by police officers during a shoot-out in Merti, Isiolo County.
He was the leader of a group which four of its members have been since been arrested following the foiled attack.
Police investigations have revealed that Huka has been working with Sheikh Gorsa who is facing terrorism charges in court.
Huka was born in Saku in Mountain area of Marsabit County. He was the last born in a family of four and schooled at Sakuu primary school and later Marsabit Secondary School
He scored a B minus in his KCSE.
He later started teaching as a part time teacher at Taqwa Madrassa which being ran by Sheikh Gorso. Thus is where he met another terror fugitive, Hassan Jarso Kotolla.
They travelled to Somalia where he trained in bomb making and paramilitary technics, police investigation reports further reveal according to Nairobi News.
However, his family says Huka told them he traveled to Mombasa where he enrolled at the Technical University.
After his training in Somalia, he rose through the ranks and commanded a sub-unit within Lamu.
“Mbarak’s sub-unit was involved in the Lamu-Tana Delta attacks of June 2014 as well as the foiled attack on a KDF base at Baure in Lamu County in June 2015,” reads a security situational report according to Daily Nation.
His death, adds the report, “has been highly celebrated as a major milestone in Kenyan counter-terrorism efforts.”
Two of his accomplice- Abdimajit Adan, 24 and Mohammed Nane, 28 are in police custody.
It has been discovered that Adan had booked a room next to Central Police Station a week before the terror attack was foiled.