Police officers search vehicles at a roadblock in Mpeketoni area, Lamu-Witu Road, Lamu, on December 30, 2022.
In June 2014, a terrorist attack in Mpeketoni, Lamu county, on the Kenyan Coast, killed more than 60 people. While the terrorist group, al Shabaab, immediately claimed responsibility, then President Uhuru Kenyatta, accompanied by his the deputy William Ruto, called a press conference and blamed the attack on “local political networks”.
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