Wednesday, November 24, 2010

UPDATE: Nine terror suspects remanded ... Six al-Shabaab recruits and Nigerian arrested. Six seized on way to join Al Shabaab

UPDATE  :  Nine terror suspects remanded

Gideon Maundu | NATION Some of the youths from Mombasa’s Majengo area allegedly arrested heading to Somalia to join a terror group on Monday when they appeared before Mombasa Principal magistrate Richard Kirui on Tuesday. Police successfully sought orders to have them remain in custody to allow for investigations to be completed.
Gideon Maundu | NATION Some of the youths from Mombasa’s Majengo area allegedly arrested heading to Somalia to join a terror group on Monday when they appeared before Mombasa Principal magistrate Richard Kirui on Tuesday. Police successfully sought orders to have them remain in custody to allow for investigations to be completed.  
By PHILIP MUYANGA and GALGALO BOCHA newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.comPosted Tuesday, November 23 2010 at 22:00
In Summary
  • Police ask for more time to probe case of Kenyan youths reportedly caught going to join al Shabaab

Six youths arrested in Lamu while allegedly going to Somalia to join a terror group on Tuesday appeared in court but no charges were preferred against them.
Also in court were a couple who runs a guest house where the youths spent a night and their employee.
The prosecution applied to have the nine held in custody to enable police conduct further investigations.
The prosecution argued there had been no time to complete investigations after the youths were arrested on Faza Island.
Principal magistrate Richard Kirui ordered that they be remanded at the Port Police Station until Friday.
“You have not been charged with any offence,” said Mr Kirui, adding that if no charges are preferred on them next time they appear in court, they will be discharged.
One of the suspects claimed that they had not eaten for two days and that they were denied an opportunity to talk to their lawyers.
The court directed that they be allowed to talk to their relatives some of whom were in the courtroom.
The youths were alleged to have been recruited to join the Somali rebel group al Shabaab, which is fighting to topple the government in Mogadishu.
The group has also threatened to attack Kenya in the past, accusing Nairobi of shoring up the weak Transitional Federal Government.
Two of the youths arrested on Monday were students of a Mombasa secondary school. They had allegedly been travelling with a Nigerian who had a British passport. He was identified as Michael Olemindis Ndemolajo.
The Immigration department was asked on Tuesday to supply detectives with detailed information regarding the Nigerian who was estimated to be aged between 18-22 years.
The Faza couple and their employee were picked up at the guesthouse they own in Faza Village, where the youths spent a night before being arrested in the neighbouring Kizingitini Village.
On Tuesday, Lamu nominated councillor Famau Ahmed Famau led some relatives of the three in demanding that they be released.
They held a meeting with the Coast provincial police boss, Mr Leo Nyongesa.
Mr Famau told reporters outside the PPO’s office that the couple and their worker were innocent, saying they received the youths just like any other customers.

 

Six seized on way to join Al Shabaab


Laban Walloga
NATION Relatives of six young men who were arrested on claims of bein al Shabaab recruits on their way to Somalia, pray at the home of one of the suspects in Tononoka, Mombasa, on Monday.
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 Two secondary school students from Mombasa are among six youths intercepted in Lamu while being ferried to Somalia to join a terror group.Security bosses said their mission was to join Somalia’ insurgency group, al-Shabaab.Coast police boss Leo Nyongesa said the six were arrested at the weekend in the far-flung island of Kizingitini alongside a Nigerian with a British passport.The latter is suspected of masterminding the racket.“Our officers laid ambush in Kizingitini and arrested the six while in transit to Somalia,” Mr Nyongesa said in his office on Monday. Boat to Kizingitini He added that pamphlets connected with al-Shabaab were recovered during the Sunday evening arrests. The group had boarded a speed boat from Lamu Island to Kizingitini before they were arrested. Mr Nyongesa said detectives were looking for more people linked to the recruitment.Police sources said the six admitted to have been recruited from a mosque in Majengo, Mombasa, after they were persuaded by a radical Imam in his weekly lectures.Audio and videos tapes purportedly containing Jihad sermons issued by the wanted cleric are reportedly in the hands of detectives investigating the matter.The source said the six spent Saturday night at an isolated madrassa in Kilifi.The officer said some Mombasa tycoons and radical Muslim clerics have established terrorist recruitment bases at the mosque and another one in Diani.Separately, parents of three of the six arrested youths yesterday asked the government to bring to book those who recruited their children for al-Shabaab.The parents said their sons disappeared on Saturday morning shortly after morning prayers at the local mosque.The boys are Form Three students at Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Secondary School. Dialy Nation
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