Mombasa commissioner blames Likoni attacks on opposition party

"We have credible information that ODM youths are involved," Marwa said according to Kenya's Capital FM. "It does not mean that the top leaders are involved. These are youths who are being given money, and we have evidence towards that effect, where we have youths from a particular community being hired to kill people of their own community."

Marwa said the youth were paid up to 3,000 shillings ($34) to incite the public and turn citizens against the government, Kenya's The Star reported. He did not specify who was paying the youth, but said the search was narrowed down to two powerful individuals in the county.
"They should not use incitement so that they cause insecurity everywhere to that the government becomes unpopular and then their referendum gets support," Marwa told reporters at the provincial headquarters after a meeting with religious leaders and community elders.
Police also uncovered plans by the same operatives to cause religious conflicts, he said, involving youths attacking mosques in Mombasa, with the blame put on Christians, so as to prompt retaliatory attacks.
Marwa's claims follow a security sweep in Likoni on Thursday in which dozens of terror suspects were arrested after Kenya Defence Forces were called in to detonate a grenade. The county is on high alert after hooded gunmen killed four people in the Soweto neighbourhood last Sunday.

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