Nairobi, 5 Apr - (ANA) - The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked gunmen who killed nearly 150 people at a university last week, the interior ministry said today, as Kenyan churches hired armed guards to protect their Easter congregations. Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said Abdirahim Abdullahi was one of four gunmen who stormed the college campus in Garissa, some 200km (120 miles) from the Somali border. An ethnic Somali with Kenyan nationality, his father is a government official in the northern Mandera county bordering Somalia, he said. "The father had reported to security agents that his son had disappeared from home... and was helping the police try to trace his son by the time the Garissa terror attack happened," Njoka told Reuters in a text message. President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday said the planners and financiers of Islamist attacks were "deeply embedded" within Kenyan communities and urged Muslims to do more to fight radicalization. Ali Roba, the governor of Mandera county, said Kenya had "massive radicalization problems, not only in the northern counties, but across the country." (ANA)

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