Security has been beefed up along the border counties following intelligence reports that Al Shabaab could stage surprise attacks.
Reports from the government authorities say that they have enhanced armed security patrols along the border so as to prevent incursions of Al-Shabaab bandits targeting communication infrastructure.
Speaking in Garissa town on Wednesday, North Eastern regional administrator Mohammoud Saleh said that the militants' bombing of several Safaricom masts in the region early this month was meant to paralyze communication infrastructure and frustrate armed security operations in the region.
"We have adopted permanent ground security operations on hot spots along the border after we discovered that Al-Shabaab were out to pull down communication infrastructures," Saleh said.
Saleh further added that the Al-Shabaab Islamist rebels had been degraded and the countable attacks reported for past fourteen months, indicates that the group is disintegrating.
Al-Shabaab militants in Garissa and Mandera counties have been targeting military and police carrier vehicles either by laying ambush or planting explosives on the roads.