![TWO mobile phones and discs found at the scene of the arrest of three dangerous terrorists who escaped from Kamiti prison and traveled more than 200 miles [300 km] undetected, may have revealed their plot to escape. The equipment was found in Kamuluyuni, Kitui County and it is believed that it was the terrorists who threw it away shortly before their arrest by the reserve police. According to the area's reserve police chief, Mr Komu Kilonzi, they received calls that the terrorists used to communicate with their counterparts in Boni forest, Lamu County being broken into and destroyed.](https://baite.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Terror-convicts.jpg "TWO mobile phones and discs found at the scene of the arrest of three dangerous terrorists who escaped from Kamiti prison and traveled more than 200 miles [300 km] undetected, may have revealed their plot to escape. The equipment was found in Kamuluyuni, Kitui County and it is believed that it was the terrorists who threw it away shortly before their arrest by the reserve police. According to the area's reserve police chief, Mr Komu Kilonzi, they received calls that the terrorists used to communicate with their counterparts in Boni forest, Lamu County being broken into and destroyed.")
TWO mobile phones discovered at the scene of the arrest of three dangerous terrorists who escaped from Kamiti prison and traveled more than 200 miles [300 kilometers] undetected may have revealed their escape plot.
The phones were discovered in Kamuluyuni, Kitui County, and it is believed that the terrorists threw them away shortly before being apprehended by police.
According to the area’s reserve police chief, Mr Komu Kilonzi, they received calls that the terrorists used to communicate with their counterparts in Boni forest, Lamu County being broken into and destroyed.
“We have been searching in the bushes because when we arrested them on Thursday, the terrorists admitted that they had cell phones which they lost while in the bush being chased away,” said Mr Kilonzi.
He said they found a disc whose contents were not immediately available while the phones were found in different places near where they were arrested. Apparently they broke the phones to destroy them in order to destroy any information and evidence they would have provided to investigators about their planned escape by the people they contacted.
Preliminary investigations show that the terrorists Musharaf Abdalla Akhulunga, popularly known as Zarkawi, or Alex, or Shukri, Mohamed Ali Abikar and Joseph Juma Odhiambo also known as Yusuf, were relying on Google maps to find their way. and they were communicating with their fellows in the Boni forest.
The two phones, a disc and a sheet of paper with the phone number were handed over to investigators from the anti-terrorism police unit and the Criminal Investigation Department (DCI). those terrorists.
