Kenyan security agencies have placed a Sh8 million bounty on four terror suspects believed to have been behind attacks on a bus and a quarry in Mandera.
Abdullahi Issak, Idriss Issack, Ahmed Uweys and Mohamed Shide allegedly planned the November 2014 ambush on Makkah Bus that left 28 dead.
They have also been linked to the December 2014 killing of 36 quarry workers in the county.
“The suspects are believed to be operating in the general area of Mandera and Wajir in Kenya and the Gedo region of Somalia,” IG Joseph Boinnet said in a statement on Friday.
“They are believed to be armed and dangerous,” Boinnet said, adding they may be in the company of other al Shabaab terrorists and may collaborate with sympathisers.
Uweys, born in 1985, is said to have joined al Shabaab as a fighter before moving to its Amniyat intelligence wing.
He was a close associate of Adan Garar who was killed in March 2015 for his role in attacks in Kenya including the massacre of 67 at Nairobi’s Westgate mall.
Shide who is from Garre community in Mandera, said to have been a close associate of Garar, is also a member of Amniyat.