Kenyans fighting for Al Shabaab are being killed as tension rises between foreign fighters and their Somalia commanders over suspicion of spying. A large number of Kenyan Al Shabaab fighters have since sneaked back into the country and some of them arrested. On Monday, 26-year-old Ahmed Yusuf Hassan and Ahmed Nur Abdi Osoble, 20, were executed by Al Shabaab’s firing squad in Buq Aqable in Hiraan region as hundreds of locals watched. The two had been accused of collaborating with the Somali government and allied forces’ operatives.
Other Kenyan Al Shabaab fighters like Nairobi’s Majengo estate-born Asum, former Moi University student Jared Omambia and Mombasa-born Faraj Abdulmajid, alongside four other foreign fighters, were publicly executed by Al Shabaab in Lower Jubba last year on accusation of spying for the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF)and Somalia National Army (SNA). In November last year, the terror group beheaded five civilians in Somalia’s Tieglow town in Bakool region for allegedly cooperating with security agents.