WANTED: Ksh.1M for man aiding Al Shabaab terrorists

Police have offered a cash reward of Ksh.1 million for the capture of a Kenyan man they accuse of helping terrorists to fraudulently acquire Kenyan identity cards.

The suspect, identified as Francis Macharia Karishu operates a business by the name Paste Printers located within Ridges Building along Nairobi’s Luthuli Avenue.

Here, the authorities say, is where he undertakes the illegal business of printing fake identity cards, bank cheques, title deed forms, birth certificates and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education certificates among other things.

According to police, Karishu processed four fake Kenyan IDs that were used by two terror suspects; Abdimajit Hassan Adan and Mohamed Nane, who were planning to carry out a bomb attack in Nairobi.

The two, who were arrested in February this year in Meriti, Isiolo with a bomb laden car headed for Nairobi to carry out attacks are said to have used the fake IDs to access the country from Somalia.

Police further indicate that Karishu’s accomplices in the fake document syndicate; Lydiah Nyawira Mburu and John Maina Kiarii have since been arrested and charged with forgery of official documents contrary to section 351 of the Penal Code and facilitating activities of terrorist Groups contrary to section 9(1) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2012.

Karishu remains at large and police are now calling on the public to report any information that may lead to his arrest.