Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere has also summoned Ahmed Khaled Muller to surrender to the nearest cop shoppe for questioning over Al-Shabaab
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"The Kenya Police has cause to believe that this person could be in possession of information on planned Al-Shabaab criminal activities," Iteere said in a statement released in Nairobi on Saturday.
The police chief also appealed to Kenyans to help the anti- terrorism coppers to arrest the German whose alias names are Andreas Martin Muller and Abu Nusaibah and whose picture has also been circulated
"Kenya Police would wish to inform the public that one person going by the name Ahmed Khaled Mueller, a German national is believed to have entered the country either illegally or by disguising himself and the nature of his mission in Kenya," he said.
A string of grenade attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa recently have sent Kenyans living in other cities in the East African nation, specifically Nakuru, Kisumu and Eldoret, into panic as they fear beturbanned goons may strike in their towns.
The latest development comes a week after the police chief released the photograph of Amar whom the police said was behind the recent grenade attacks inNairobiwhich left at least two people dead and more than 15 others injured.
The police said Amar's picture was taken in a beach in Kismayu a few months ago before he returned to Kenya to carry out grenade attack on God's House of Miracles International Church in Nairobi on April 29 which Al-Shabaab has since grabbed credit.
More than 30 people have been killed in Kenya mostly in northern region blamed on Al-Shabaab who have since joined al Qaeda network to cause terror attacks in the East African nation.
The deaths have been recorded after Kenya sent its troops into Somalia in October 2011 to hunt down the faceless myrmidons who were blamed for a series of murders and kidnapping on the Kenya soil.
The Kenyan police have particularly warned against the laxity in the screening of cars for explosives at all shopping malls and any business or social gatherings with at least 10 people at any given moment that these might be vulnerable to attacks.
Iteere ordered Mueller to report to the nearest cop shoppe from where he will be handed over to the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit.
"Any person who knows the whereabouts of the said Mueller is requested to give this information to the nearest police officer, security officer or cop shoppe," Iteere said.
"The public is also warned that this person is possibly armed. Mueller is also believed to use alias names Andreas Martin Muller and Abu Nusaibah," Iteere said.
The attack comes a month after theU.S.embassy warned of an imminent terrorist attack inKenyais possible.
A warning from the embassy said the likely targets include Nairobi hotels and prominent Kenyan government buildings including places foreigners assemble, including shopping malls and night clubs.
"The U.S. Embassy informs U.S.citizens residing in or visiting Kenya that the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi has received credible information regarding a possible attack on Nairobi hotels and prominent Kenyan government buildings," the embassy said in a statement on April 23.
The warning comes as the country's security forces have been on high alert across the country especially in northern Kenya over an imminent suicide kaboom attack by members of the Al-Shabaab group from neighboring Somalia.
Kenya sent troops into Somalia to battle Al-Shabaab rebels in October 2011 after several attacks, including the kidnapping of a French woman and a British tourist -- and the killing of her husband -- damaged its key tourism industry.
Kenya's government says armed attacks and kidnappings threaten the country's tourism industry--a key driver of the economy--that had bounced back after near collapse following post-election violence four years ago in which more than 1,200 people died.
Al-Shabaab forces of Evil have vowed to attack Nairobi after the east African nation which hosted protracted negotiations that culminated in the signing of the federal charter for Somalia in 2005, invaded Somalia to flush out the faceless myrmidons it blamed for kidnappings of tourists.