President Uhuru Kenyatta held a crisis meeting at State House on Wednesday to discuss the jailbreak at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
The meeting was between the President and top government officials drawn from the security docket.
Under the Ministry of Interior, the State Department of Correctional Services briefed Kenyatta on how the three terror suspects managed to escape.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the trio, Musharraf Abdalla Akhulunga a.k.a Zarkarawi, Mohammed Ali Abikar, and Joseph Juma Odhiambo a.k.a Yusuf, drilled a hole through their cell, which they used to escape.
The hole was dug by dislodging the brick and later concealing it with cardboard.
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CS Fred Matiang'i
In escaping from the high walls of Kamiti, they apparently used blanket strings and broomsticks to create a make-shift rope to climb down.
However, the Interior CS, Dr. Fred Matiang’i, noted that a visit to the prison, specifically Block A6 where the alleged escape happened, did not confirm what had been reported by the prison’s management.
“We will not only go the direction investigations will point us, but we will act resolutely to ensure this kind of recklessness does not happen again.
“Because it exposes our people. Definitely, there is a certain level of irresponsibility we have to deal with in this particular case.
“We have gone to the place where the escape allegedly happened, and we have formed certain opinions. We don’t want to discuss that because we don’t want to interfere with the work that the DCI is doing,” Matiangi’ remarked.
