Police in Narok are holding a terror suspect arrested on Saturday morning trying to get into Narok Stadium amid Madaraka Day celebrations.
A police statement seen by Nairobi News said Adan Galhai alias Urisha Galhai, 22, was first arrested by military officers on Friday night but escaped.
“He wanted to enter the stadium yesterday and when searched, his national identity card and another [ID] written ‘National Security’ were recovered from him,” police said.
“While being questioned, he escaped.”
SECOND ATTEMPT
The statement said that Galhai was rearrested on Saturday morning while attempting yet again to get into the stadium.
It said a man who accompanied him escaped.
Police said Galhai told them he spent Friday night at a lodging but that it later emerged that he lied.
They said he converted to Islam in 2014 and had been living in Eastleigh, Nairobi.
They arrested him on suspicion that he has “connections with terror group Al-Shabaab”.