Detectives close to the Dusit D2 investigations revealed that the group tasked with executing the Mombasa twin attack on the same day called off the plan after realising that security had been beefed up, noticeably along the Mombasa-Malindi highway. This was apparently after intelligence reports about an impending attack.
The attackers, numbering about 10, are believed to have sneaked out of Boni Forest and travelled to Malindi where they camped at a hotel for a week during which they communicated with another group inside Boni Forest. The latter group was to ferry weapons, and explosives that were to be used to attack the malls and bank.
It was not immediately clear how the suspects managed to sneak out of the Boni Forest, which is, has been gazetted as KDF operation area nor how they were able to bypass roadblocks along the highly guarded Mombasa-Malindi highway.
However, sources privy to the ongoing investigations revealed to reporters that the group tasked with delivering weapons from Boni Forest delayed and in the process, communication between the Malindi group and the Nairobi attackers was intercepted by security intelligence, prompting them to mount roadblocks along the highway.
The police boss said social places such as, shopping malls, ferry crossing channels, public transport stages places frequented by tourists, public beaches and vital government installations already mapped had security beefed up by both uniformed and plainclothes officers.
He further said that multi-agency teams from Nairobi were closing in on various suspects in Bondeni and Majengo in Mombasa, who are suspected to have aided the Nairobi attackers.