Suspect Arrested for Sending Chemical-Laced Threatening Letters to Nairobi-Based Foreign Mission

Police have arrested a 34-year-old terror suspect accused of sending threatening letters to a High Commission in Nairobi.

Tracy Wairimu Ndegwa was nabbed by officers from the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) in Nairobi’s Utawala estate on Monday.

One of the two letters she sent to the Nairobi-based foreign mission on July 31st 2020 was sprayed with an industrial chemical and the second with hay fever pesticides, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

An extract from one of the letters shared online by the DCI suggests the woman was threatening the head of the undisclosed High Commission to facilitate travel documentation and residence to an unidentified individual.

“We will assault you and break your bones, we will rape you in turns and put explosives where you think you are safest…” the letter warns.

The DCI said the suspect was released on bail on July 23rd, 2020 after she was charged with another terrorism hoax targeting the Commissioner General of the Kenya Prisons Service.

She will be arraigned at Kibera Law Courts after completion of all necessary procedures.