Nairobi: The Government of Kenya conducted successful operations targeting hideouts, financial networks, and smuggling routes of the transnational criminal syndicate the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), KTN reported.
According to Ethiopian News Agency, the operation has already yielded fruits with multiple camps dismantled, the media stated. The National Police Service (NPS) launched a massive security operation aimed at destroying all OLA’s hideouts, recovering illegal weapons, and disrupting criminal networks in Isiolo and Marsabit counties.
This group has established a transnational criminal syndicate whose activities threaten the national security of Kenya. In Kenya, the criminal enterprise is headed by Gamachu Aboy and Hussein Gofu, also known as Lelissa, who coordinate the illegal activities within the areas, the report stated citing security officials.
Security forces raided and destroyed 14 makeshift camps, each serving a specific purpose, from training grounds to drug processing hubs and propaganda centers, major drug processing sites, and stockpiled illegal weapons. Moreover, police uncovered sophisticated counterfeiting equipment used to produce fake US Dollars and Ethiopian Birr.