MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Kenya is planning to prosecute three suspects who were reportedly arrested on their way to join the Islamic State (IS) in Puntland, Somalia.
The trio, Ayub Omar Bwanaadi, Mohamed Omar Bwanaadi and Kassim Ahmed Ali were arrested by ATPU aboard a Moyale-bound bus last week.
ISIS or Daesh now has a presence in South Africa, Mozambique, DRC, Somalia as well as the Sahel region.
Two brothers Ayub Bwanaadi, 32, and Mohammed Bwanaadi, 22 as well as Kassim Ahmed, 29 were arrested in Isiolo County on April 7 aboard a Moyale-bound bus by the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU).
According to Kenya police, the three have been on the run from the police after warrants were issued against them for crimes, they are suspected to have committed in their home County, Lamu.
The three men during their interrogation told police that the plan to join Daesh in Puntland was mooted by Ali Omar Bwanadi who is Ayub and Mohammed’s brother, police believe is currently in Morogoro, Tanzania.
Ali fled from Kenya to Tanzania after he realized that he was being sought by the police over alleged involvement in the killing of security officers and government officials in Lamu County.
Police believe that the three men chose to flee to Puntland after Kenyan authorities sought help from Tanzania authorities to apprehend them.
Ali is said to have introduced them to a facilitator based in Mombasa who sent them Sh150,000 for their travels.
The three men then travelled to Mombasa through Lungalunga with the help of bodaboda riders and boarded a bus to Mombasa town.
Once in Mwembe Tayari, Mombasa they were by the handler whom they told investigators is known to them as Abdi, he then transferred them into a waiting vehicle that was to move them to Eastleigh.
Abdi gave them the contact of a man who received and hosted them in Eastleigh for a number of days before giving them new sim cards to avoid detection by authorities.
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