At the height of the 2013 presidential campaigns, NARC Kenya supremo, Martha Karua, was scheduled to address the residents of Garissa at the Garissa Primary School on a Sunday in a bid to sell her agenda.
On Saturday night, the eve of the rally, a suspected Al-Shabaab militant stealthily moved to the venue under the cover of darkness with the sinister intention of planting an explosive device under the platform that Karua would stand on.
As he was planting the explosive device, it detonated ripping apart the platform and its corrugated iron roof.
Residents who said they heard an explosion at night, woke up only to be met with a gory scene: Shredded body parts of the terrorist were strewn all over and two pistols were found.
The damage that had been done to the platform by the explosion sent a powerful message just how lethal the device was.
Ngatia Iregi, who was the then Northeastern Province deputy criminal investigations chief, confirmed the incident to the media and said that one of the recovered guns had been stolen from Department of Criminal Investigations' officers.
Karua was in Wajir and was expected to take her campaigns to Garissa with the aim of wooing the people of Northern Kenya to voting for her in the 2013 elections.
Following the terrorist incident, NARC Kenya decided to postpone the rally for safety reasons.
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