The ‘Most Wanted’ list came as the Nation learnt that three out of the ve guns used in last week’s attack were initially bought by the Federal Government of Somalia.
A preliminary ballistic examination of the guns showed that their serial number markings, although partially erased, were similar to the ones used by the Somali security forces. The source of two other guns used by the terrorists is yet to be identied.
Violet Kemunto Omwoyo, wife of a terrorist implicated in last Tuesday’s attack on dusitD2 hotel sent her luggage by courier to a town on the border between Kenya and Somalia.
Kemunto sent the luggage that included personal items such as clothes from Nairobi last week and was to collect it in Mandera town on Wednesday – a day after the attack in which 21 people were killed.
It has since emerged that Kemunto went to Eastleigh to send some luggage to Mandera, which suggests she had planned to flee the country as the terror attack unfolded.
She, however, did not turn up to pick up her items in Mandera and her whereabouts are not known.
The items were seized by police, who were alerted by attendants at the courier service.
On checking, they realised it was sent from Eastleigh, Nairobi, by Kemunto.It has also emerged the woman had met her mother days earlier in Ruai, Nairobi, and informed her she and her husband was to leave the city for an undisclosed place to celebrate their first marriage anniversary.
She left some of the luggage with her parent.
Kemunto’s mother and two sisters have been questioned over the developments.
Kemunto had lived with her husband, Ali Salim Gichunge – whom the police believe coordinated the attack – in house number E9 in Guango, a gated community in Mucatha, Ruaka, in Kiambu, since March 21, last year.
“A quick perusal of their phone numbers shows they were in constant communication with several contacts in Somalia,” police said.
Although local terror cells have been used on several occasions to carry out attacks, last Tuesday’s was the first one of such a scale to be planned and executed by Kenyans.
This shows a change in strategy by Al Shabaab, which has previously sent Somali nationals from their ranks to carry out such attacks.