Kenya: Exposed - Foiled Terror Plot to Blow Up Nairobi With 80kg Explosives

The terror suspects arrested in Isiolo last month, one of whom had booked a hotel room for almost a week near the Central Police Station, were targeting the Judiciary buildings and a government installation.

Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinnet, revealing details of the foiled attack, which is probably one of the most successful arrests in recent times, said that the vehicle with registration number KBM 200D that was seized from the suspects in Merti, Isiolo County, was laden with approximately 80kg of high-grade Trinitrotoluene (TNT) explosives.

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