Monday, January 21, 2019 — Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) detectives urged Kenyans to share information about the terrorist suspect of DusitD2, Violet Kemunto, who is suspected to have fled to Somalia following the terrorist attack in Nairobi last week.
Kemunto was the wife to Ali Gichunge, who is one of the five suspects who were killed when they attacked the hotel complex last Tuesday.
The two lovebirds were living in Ruaka, Kiambu County.
ATPU has revealed details about Kemunto who used to refer herself as Al Shabaab bride on social media.
Detectives say that the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) graduate married Gichunge in 2017.
From there, she went to Somalia where she was trained in terror attacks.
"After getting married to Ali Salim Gichunge in 2017, she frequented Somalia. Her siblings participated in the ceremony. She was radicalized in Somalia and was known to be tough in gun tactics," one officer from the ATPU said.
The officer also said Kemunto was taught on how to plant mines and she once joined other Al Shabaab insurgents in planting mines on an Amison base in Kismayu.
She is believed to be hiding in Somalia.
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