Police officers in Kwale County have killed terror suspect Suleiman Ali Kodza, a day after he was reported to have escaped a police raid in Mombasa – By Gerald Gekara.
Kodza, a suspected Al-Shabaab ring leader in Diani, was shot and killed in Ngerenya area in South Coast.
“On being ordered to surrender he attempted to attack the officers using a machete which prompted the officers to shoot, fatally injuring him,”
On Friday, police were out to trace stolen guns, once receiving information of Kodza’s hideout in Mkunazini- Shika Adabu when they caught up with another assailant.
According to a police report, it is alleged that during the raid, the officers were confronted with gunfire as they approached the hideout, before opening fire and killing the shooter, identified as Kennedy Okaka.
The names were released a few days after three other terror suspects identified as Said Ramadhan Mkubwa, Salama Suleiman Mohamed and Swaleh Yusuf Abdalla were killed by the police in their house in Dudus, Likoni.
Since the onset of the war against the coronavirus, police stations have been heavily attacked by criminal gangs who then seize guns and police uniforms purported to be used in a bigger attack.
