It is unfortunate that after the first event, instead of a serious security operation, Acting President and KDF focused on "killing" virtual terrorists (in their hundreds) and destroying camps and technical in Second Life. Al Shehab must have known that there was still no real security in the area.
Of course, the bizarre ways of handling things is not without precedent: Al Shabab had a huge "PR problem" in Mpeketoni, when they kept claiming their evil deeds and the Kenyan government kept claiming them back "on behalf of the Kenyans (the opposition)". With both parties claiming credit, it was inevitable that nothing would be done as a consequence, and nothing was .... except for the bizarre arrest of a governor, who ....