Elgiva Bwire Oliacha is 28-years-old. He is from Western Kenya or Western Province to be specific. He is probably a Luhya and a Kenyan by birth. This is the man who was caught with over a dozen grenades, machine guns and nearly a thousand unspent cartridges in a house he claimed to be his. When he was taken to court, he quickly pleaded guilty to the charges of illegal possession of fire arms and injuring two people in a grenade attack two days earlier in central Nairobi.
The bus stop attack was the second in less than 24 hours in the very heart of Nairobi. These attacks came hot on the heels of Al Shabaab threats that they would retaliate the invasion of Kenyan army in their Somali territory. To tell you the truth, Elgiva Bwire's arrest and subsequent admission that he is indeed an Al Shabaab member brings into sharp focus the belief among Kenyans that all Al Shabaab members are of Somali origin. Now we know that the terrorist group has recruited indigenous locals to carry out its mission here at home in Kenya.
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