肯尼亚内政大臣Joseph Ole Lenku告诉BBC说,这次包围行动已是最后一次了。他说肯尼亚是不会被索马里运动的伊斯兰组织成人党威胁到的,就算其被认为是本次袭击案的策谋者。他说肯尼亚军队将和非盟索马里特派团一起驻留在索马里,并且会加强驻军。
“Our business and our intention to go to Somalia was for some very clear reason.
“我们的事务以及前往索马里的目的都有着相当明确的原因。
We have unfinished business there. We are going to continue to be there.
我们在那边还有未完成的事务。我们打算继续驻扎在那里。
And this attack would only make our resilience and our position very clear that al-Shabab posed a real threat not only to Kenya, but East Africa. And therefore, we would not be cowed and would not consider whether we need to rethink our activities there. If anything, using the aim of Amisom, we are only going to intensify our presence.”
并且本次袭击将只会使得我们的还击和态度更加明确,那就是伊斯兰成人党组织不仅仅是对肯尼亚造成真正意义上的威胁,并且还包括东非地区。所以我们将来不会受到其威胁,也不会考虑我们到底需不需要重新策划我们在那里的种种活动。如果发生了什么情况的话,在非盟索马里特派团的宗旨之下,我们只会继续加强驻军。”