The issue of Youths getting radicalized is becoming a pain in the neck of the Kenyan Government.
The Government has put out drastic measures to help it fight terrorism but this fight has greatly been curtailed by the fact that Kenyan Youths have become tools of trade by terror gangs that recruit them, train them and send them for deadly assignments in the Country.
President Kenyatta seem to have had enough of this radicalization triangle and has now issued strict orders to security agencies to strictly deal with these radicalized youths.
Uhuru has ordered a nationwide operation to crack down on radicalised youth, their mentors and financiers.
The President, while addressing senior administration and police officers at State House, Mombasa, yesterday said his administration would not leave anything to chance in the war on terror.
“It’s our intention to pursue those who planned and financed last week’s attack using all instruments at our disposal,” said Uhuru, a week after the terror attack at the 14 Riverside Drive complex in which 21 people were killed.
The President directed regional coordinators and county commissioners to implement action plans to prevent and counter violent extremists in their jurisdictions.
“You are expected to report on progress on your collaboration with civil society groups and other religious leaders to ensure radicalised Kenyans and their radicalisers, who present a threat to our people, are quickly detected and dealt with severely.”
At the same time, the President said the Government would roll out an integrated population registration system – the National Integrated Identity Management Systems – with the personal details of all Kenyans and foreigners living in the country as a measure aimed at combating crime.
“For each registration, the system will generate a unique ID that will be known as Huduma Number,” said Uhuru, adding that county commissioners would oversee the registration.
Outlining the measures his administration would take to spur development this year, Uhuru said he had signed an Executive Order on Monday to give regional coordinators and county commissioners powers to chair development implementation committees.