Top security officials knew nothing about Mpeketoni attack

Lamu, Kenya: Top security officials in Lamu County who spoke to The Standard on Sunday in confidence, maintained that they had no intelligence that such an attack was in the offing.

“We received a memo from Vigilance House that we needed to be extra vigilant during the World Cup. But this was a memo that was circulated countrywide,” said an officer in the know.

He added: “As for what happened here, there was no indication of impending danger on the ground. If there was any intelligence that an attack had been planned somewhere and was going to be executed here, then we were kept in the dark about it. The government’s statement that we had not acted on intelligence reports took us by surprise,” he said.

Security forces, especially the police and the Provincial Administration, have been roundly blamed for the security lapse because it took many hours before they made a feeble attempt to respond to the attack…

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