According to Thursday reports, Kenyan police force have arrested governor Issa Timamy of the coastal Lamu district for alleged connection with three recent massacres in which over 60 people were killed.
The governor, who was arrested on Wednesday, is believed to be connected with the killings which occurred during two consecutive nights in the town of Mpeketoni and a nearby village last week.
Despite an immediate claim of responsibility from the terrorist group Al - Shabab for the Mpeketoni attack, President Uhuru Kenyatta blamed “local political networks” along with an “opportunist network of other criminal gangs”.
