The widely publicised talk on the likelihood that the Kapenguria Police Station siege had links with police-terrorists is quite chilling.
It is scarier to know that some security agents dispatched to secure citizens in volatile and border counties do communicate with Somalia-based terrorists.
The suspected Kapenguria assailant may have planned and targeted accomplices he has closely worked with, including his own senior boss, calls for thorough investigations.
Nothing could have dramatised more the piling danger of the consequences of the possible radicalisation of people working within the security forces.
The incident could be the genesis of an enemy from within that could usher in unimaginable destruction. By virtue of their profession, such dangerous elements have access to sophisticated firearms and other weaponry which pose danger to their workmates and the citizens at large.
Expert investigations have disclosed that some security enforcers are terrorist sympathisers who leak information to their associates on the other end, thus undermining efforts to secure lives and property.
The radicalization of youths and recruitment into Al-Shabaab terrorist groups is already a major headache for the state authorities. Having several of our highly trained security personnel get brainwashed to conduct Jihadi missions is bringing the deadly terror menace too close to contain.
The government must now move speedily to weed out all such officers, whose loyalty and affiliation now lies at the enemy side.