The government is investigating at least 10 not-for-profit orgernisation with probable links with the Somali based militant group Al Shabab.
According to sources, the orgernisation are suspected of soliciting funds in the name of delivering aid but turn around and finance terrorism in the country and the East African region, the Daily Nation reported Sunday.
Director of Criminal Investigations Ndegwa Muhoro declined to comment on the investigations but the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit has asked the NGOs’ regulator to furnish it with details of individuals behind the organisations whose bank accounts are said to be active even after being deregistered.
The newly-appointed Executive Director of the NGO Co-ordination Board Mohamed Fazul said that some NGOs were conducting their businesses in an opaque manner; usually engaging in activities for which they were not registered.
“We are working round the clock to restore discipline in the charity industry. We cannot have a situation where NGOs are an integral conduit of all manner of vices,” Mr Fazul said.
AIDING TERRORISTS
The United States security agents are also looking for the people behind the NGOs under investigation for probable links with 1998 terror attacks on US embassies in Nairobi and Tanzania that killed at least 200 people.
The Americans have requested the Kenyan government to supply them with information that would help to track the suspected masterminds of frequent attacks.
The NGO’s under the police radar were registered to offer humanitarian support to vulnerable people, mostly in rural parts of the country.
Investigators have cast aspersion on a number of NGO’s as their activities remain a mystery. They say the sources of the NGOs funding also raise questions.
