Al-shaabab impact in Kenya

Al-shaabab is an Islāmic militant organization based in southern Somalia, excluding the capital Mogadishu. It has waged an insurgency against Somalia’s Transitional government and its Ethiopian supporters since 2006. When it began its insurgency in the late 2006, it used classic guerrilla tactics, suicide bombing, shooting and targeted assassinations to oppose the Somali government and what it perceived as its allies, from aid groups to the Ethiopian military to African union peace keepers.

The al-shaabab decision started by kidnapping aid workers in Daadab, tourist in Lamu and killed British publisher David Tebutt in Kismayu. This has really shaken the tourism economy sector in Kenya and thus Kenya had to pursue the al-shaaba for the sake of protecting its economy.

The al-shaabab has led to the closure of some business and the investors have shy away because of the decrease in the state of security, this would have an indirect effect towards the economy of the country thus affecting the common citizens.

Al-shaabab has also led to the closure of big hotels and loss of jobs to the workers in these hotels in the tourist spots. This has led to decrease in the inflow of tourists into the country thus decrease in the foreign exchange of the country.

Kenya’s decision to go to war in Somalia in the pursuit of al-shaabab have caused by the loss of lives due to their immoral behaviors like suicide bombings. This has led to loss of thousand lives thus the pursuit.

Kenya did not invade Somalia as a country. It went there in hot pursuit to exterminate thugs that had made Kenya their playground. They had become so daring that they started kidnapping and abducting Kenyans and tourists at will. It was becoming unsafe for tourists to visit Lamu and Malindi beach resort, more scary was the realization that even Nairobi was no longer recruitment of Kenyan young people took place, brainwashed and returned to Kenya to carry out terrorist attacks. Such attacks had increased with alarming frequency.

To a smaller extent Kenya’s decision to go to war in the pursuit of al-shaabab was ill-informed due to the following reasons;

The decision has caused tension in this, country because the people of Kenya are afraid that the of future attack at anytime as revenge by the militant following their statement which they channeled through the media. Because of the killings of al-shaabab members, by the Kenyan soldiers , the al-shaabab are planning and have also taken some minor steps of revenging  which gives a sign that at anytime they may attack severely.