Two Al Shabaab suspects have been arrested in foiled kidnapping in Mandera County, where five chiefs and a child were recently kidnapped by the insurgents.

One of the suspects identified as Isaac Abdi Mohamed alias Kharan Abdi, aged 29, and believed to be a Somali national recently sneaked into the country where he fraudulently acquired a Kenyan national identity card.

The plan was to allegedly abduct Chinese nationals working at a major construction site within Mandera town before the plot was thwarted by Anti-Terror Police Unit (APTU) officers.

Abdi was to allegedly link up with a Kenyan employed to chauffeur the Chinese.