Apr 15 2015 What you are behind the terrorist attacks of Al Shabab in Kenya?

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  The terrible attacks by Somali terrorists are favored by the Kenyan police corruption and by an ongoing conflict of commercial interests between the two countries. Kenya, while, threatens to deport 450.000 refugees among whom half are women and children. Aims to close the Dadaab refugee camp.

«15 euros per illegal immigrant. Children and adults. They are the same risk», says a Kenyan cop who works in Garissa. «I see that in every control. Some colleagues make a living from it. I do not. I do not."

After Al Shabab brutally murdered the 152 college students in Garissa, this city has become a hotbed of suspicions and arrests in recent days. The vice president of Kenya yesterday ordered the closure of the largest refugee camp in Africa, the one from Dadaab, only 120 kilometers away from the scene of the attack. The reactions have been mostly disbelief, of outrage and shame. The measure has been crossed out as a violation of the Rights of Refugees and the impossibility of repatriating more than 450.000 people in three months. It has been said that those affected will be mostly women and children. But what could be behind this extreme decision?

The inability to repatriate more than 450.000 people in three months

“It is just a strategy to regain control of the area”, a member of the Mandera government tells us, city ​​that is also key for Al Shabab. “On the border money is made, and Somalia right now is profiting from smuggling, just like kenya does. With the construction of the wall that will separate the two countries and the closure of the refugee camp, Kenya will take over completely and the money will stay in the country."

But we are not talking about a fight for legality, Corruption by the Kenyan government has come to light in several investigations in which its own agents are a source of very valuable information in exchange for a few dollars. Documents that incriminate important police officers have been bought.

In Garissa prices are flexible, they haunt the 15 euros per head when turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants. “I am not saying that immigrants are allowed to pass as a general rule”, says the policeman I interviewed. "I mean the cops have their contacts, it is a business, they know who they have to let pass.”

The cops have their contacts, it is a business, they know who they have to let pass

Dadaab refugee camp serves as a hotspot. Some of the refugees have contacts in Somalia and with the help of the authorities involved import sugar into Kenya, weapons and rice mainly. The money that Somalis move on the border reaches millionaire figures. This money is sent back to your country from the transfer offices in Nairobi, For that reason, last week the closure of several offices suspected of being used by Al Shabab was ordered.. According to the Standard newspaper, can we talk about 60 trucks per week, carrying twenty-five tons of merchandise each, departing from Somalia to the Dadaab refugee camp, Garissa and other small towns around.

“I have worked in the port of Kismayu, the clashes with the Kenyan troops that are in Somalia occur because they want control over our waters, our merchandise, our economy. We attack so that they do not continue to take away what is ours», Ibrahim tells me in the Eastleigh neighborhood, in Nairobi, where large numbers of Somalis reside. “As soon as we try to scare away the boats that fish in our waters illegally, they call us pirates. If there is a confrontation and a Kenyan soldier and five Somalis die, they will call us terrorists and the world will not know that our people were not linked to terrorism in any way.

As soon as we try to drive away the boats that fish in our waters illegally, they call us pirates

Al Shabab exists and is a reality. But it would be necessary to investigate in depth who is involved in the terror business. To what extent does the Kenyan government bear responsibility for the terrorist attacks?. How thin is the line between terrorism and corruption, what will be there, despite building a wall, or the dismantling of Dadaab.