A committee chaired by the Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has been given powers to freeze and unfreeze funds of suspects linked to terrorism in legal changes seen as a move to sidestep the courts in the terror war.
Other members of the committee include the cabinet secretaries for Treasury and Foreign Affairs, the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, the Attorney General, Police Inspector General, Director General of National Intelligence Service, Director General of the Financial Reporting Centre.
