Recent police arrests show that the Islamic State's growing presence in Somalia is slowly spilling to the country through the porous counties of Mandera, Garissa, Lamu and even Wajir.
These terror groups are recruiting young and brilliant Kenyans for jihadi missions abroad, raising fears that some of them will eventually return to threaten the country security set up.
Kenyan security intelligence agencies estimate that close to 100 men and women are feared to have gone to join the terrorist cells in Libya and Syria, triggering heightened concerns that some may come back to the country to stage attacks on Kenyans and foreign targets in a country that is already a victim of regular terrorism attacks.
According to Rashid Abdi, a senior security analyst at the International Crisis Group, there is a real threat that Kenya as a country faces from IS assailants and the danger predicted to continue building up.
The analysts further says the problem of eager and often untrained extremist fighters gaining terrorist skills with IS and coming back home to launch deadly attacks is one challenge that the European nations are already battling with, and may soon be Kenya's main problem too.
In March this year, four men appeared in Kenyan courts being accused of wanting to travel to Libya to join IS militias.
Then in early May again, police sources announced of the popular arrest of a medical student, his wife and friend accused of allegedly recruiting young men and women for IS and plotting a deadly anthrax attack in the country.