Police inspector general Boinnet has responded to planned terror attacks in Kenyas capital that was said to target two buildings on Haile Selassie and Harambee Avenue in Nairobi.
In a statement , the Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet has denied claims of a terror plot at Times Tower and the National Treasury.
The claims come in the back drop of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Mashujaa Day speech on October 20 that the Kenya Defence Forces will not be pulled out of Somalia, where they are fighting Al Shabaab. There were no claims of responsibility from any militant group regarding the alleged Nairobi attack.
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Kenya experienced the last terrorism-related incident in Nairobi on September 21, 2013, at Westgate Mall which claimed 71 people and injured more.
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According to the alert, which has now been termed as completely misleading and not factual, the attack was to be masterminded and headed by Ahmed Harith Mahmoud and five other operatives. The attack was planned to be carried between Sunday, October 28 and Sunday, November 4. Police said Harith is an associate and logistician of Ahmed Iman Ali alias Engineer and leader of al-Shabaab cell in Majengo, Nairobi. Iman is currently based in Somalia.
The intelligence report said Harith has been conducting reconnaissance of the two buildings in the last few months. The intelligence report further revealed his five associates include four men and a lady all residing in Nairobi’s Kariobangi and Umoja estates. In the last few months, terror attacks by al-Shabaab have increased, with the group carrying several attacks in Lamu and North Eastern Kenya. 
On the same rumoured date , Kenya Airways will operate a daily non-stop flight to New York with the inaugural flight scheduled for October 28. The airline is counting on the tourism, with the US being a key source market of vacationers, as well as opportunities to Kenyan businesses accorded by the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) to sustain the flights.
The national carrier said it expected the flights between Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) and New York’s JFK Airport to play a critical role in returning it profit making territory. The airline said revenues from the route had potential to increase earnings by 10 per cent in the course of 2019.
The airline on Thursday started selling tickets for the inaugural and subsequent flights between Nairobi and New York. Kenyans and other travelers will be able to book early worm tickets for $869 (Sh87 000), the seats on sale for this price are however limited and the cost increases as bookings increase.
KQ chairman Michael Joseph said the move was an important milestone for the airline that just concluded a complex financial restructuring, adding that the route would enable it swing back to and sustain profits.