Kenya Freezes Bank Accounts Suspected of Funding Al-Shabaab Terror Group

Kenya froze bank accounts suspected of funding al-Shabaab terrorists this week following the recent attack at Garissa State University that left 147 dead, including mostly Christian students.

Mwenda Njoka, a spokesman for Kenya's Interior Ministry, told CNN that the government has frozen 86 bank accounts suspected of being used to wire money to members of the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab terror group, which has taken responsibility for the April 2 attack.

The government-led effort to target terrorists' bank accounts has been ongoing since 2011, Njoka said.

Along with the bank accounts, Kenya's top police division also released on Wednesday a list of companies suspected of doing business with the al-Shabaab terror group.

Kenya also continued its ongoing airstrikes against al-Shabaab strongholds this week, an endeavor that has also been carried out for the past few years.

The country's rapid response team has received some criticism after a police source told CNN that emergency responders were delayed hours before getting to the scene of the Garissa State University terrorist attack because they could not arrange transport.

The country's Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed told CNN this week that the government is not classifying the rapid response team as being "slow."

"One cannot actually say that the response was slow," Foreign Minister Mohamed told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "Obviously when parents are grieving and the country is mourning, it's always easy to fall back on things like that, but I can assure you that we took very quick action as soon as this was reported."

On Tuesday, hundreds of Kenyans gathered in Nairobi to mourn the deaths of 147, including mostly Christian students, who were massacred when masked al-Shabaab gunmen stormed Garissa State University in the early morning hours of April 2.