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Other Al Hijra members who have disappeared without trace include one of its ‘Amirs’, ‘Musa Osodo’ (Sylvester Opiyo), and senior individuals such as Jeremiah Okumu and Steven Mwanzi Osaka.
In the document, a former Al Hijra fighter named Ahmed Mwarabu explained that it was easy to get new recruits especially in the slums, but its members grew cold feet after ‘observing how things are being handled.’
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“Towards the end of 2012, with the fractious state of al-Shabaab and its loss of Kismayu, a known Al Hijra zone of operation in Somalia, Al Hijra’s setbacks became more evident. The group’s ability to recruit and radicalise new members to be sent to join al-Shabaab in Somalia was weakened. In addition, its operational ability to prosecute its declared “war” inside Kenya on behalf of al-Shabaab by dispatching fighters from Somalia s