Police on Sunday night, April 28, 2024, announced the arrest of terror suspect Mustakima Mohammed Ali - wanted for the murder of a police officer and 2 chiefs in December 2019.

According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Mustakima was arrested by Anti-Terrorism Police augmented by their Special Operations Group (SOG) counterparts at the Sambaki Bridge road block. He was on board a Malindi-bound bus from Lamu.

"Mustakima Ali alias Abu Mahir and his accomplices holed up after the monstrous murders that occurred in December 2019, first hiding within Boni Forest from where they were smoked out by security personnel and disappeared to a neighboring country," a statement by the DCI read in part.

In April 2023, three members of his gang dared a return into the country but were intercepted and arrested along the Isiolo-Moyale highway while heading to Somalia. They were charged at the Kahawa Law Courts and their case is ongoing.

According to the police, other suspects who have since been identified but are still at large remain on police radar.

Mustakima has been on the run since committing the heinous murders. The chief and his assistant's mutilated bodies were discovered inside their offices in Mbwajumali Village, Lamu East Constituency on December 11, 2019.

The suspects allegedly stormed the government offices and killed the two officials.

The severely mutilated body of  Police Constable Hesbon Okemwa Anunda, was found in a mangrove forest in Kizingitini, Lamu County. His corpse was discovered three days after he was reported missing from his duty post at Tchundwa in Lamu East Constituency - his government-issued firearm was stolen in the attack.

Lamu has been rocked by a spate of murders in the recent years, some of which have been attributed to terrorists, dug lords, and land cartels.