Police in Mandera have released a man who was arrested last for asking for directions to Somalia.
Mr Backstone Agaro, 53, had been arrested in Mandera on suspicion that he was on his way to join Al-Shabaab militants.
In a letter to a Mandera court from Mr Francis Lemusi, the head of the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) Mandera office, Mr Agaro has no links to any terror cell.
Investigation done in two days as ordered by the court indicated that Mr Agaro could have been suffering from depression after he sold all his property and gave the proceeds to a church.
In their letter to the court, police said Mr Agaro was only inquiring about the border to Somalia as it was his first time to Mandera and he got confused after passing a signpost written Mandera County.
Mr Agaro was arrested on March 6 after alighting from a bus in Mandera town at about 10pm.
The ATPU accused him then of being a Shabaab spy doing surveillance in the region and the country at large to aid the terror cell in carrying out attacks.