NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – A Kenyan court on Wednesday allowed the country’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit ( ATPU) to detained two suspected Al-Shabaab members for 30 days to complete investigations.
Abdul Satar and Arfan Juma. were arrested mid this month in Elwak town near Kenya’s border with Somalia.
The suspects were arrested after intelligence indicated they had left Mombasa for Somalia using a private car.
Bernard Ndirang, an officer from Anti-terror Police has filed an affidavit through state counsel Kajuju Kirimi which he sought to detain the two at Muthaiga police station.
According to the affidavit, Ndirangu said detectives needed to establish how one of the suspects, Satar acquired a student ID card from Iqra Youth Foundation Institute.
The two suspects were reportedly traced to the Elwak where they were arrested after they made a stopover to ask for directions into Somalia.
Ndirangu said detectives are pursuing two other suspects Hashim Adow who lives in Kisauni, Mombasa and Salim Aboud.
Adow is an alleged recruitment agent while Aboud was in communication with the two and was allegedly directing them to meet their recruiters for radicalisation and training.
Ndirangu said he required the 30 days to have sufficient time to submit the suspects’ phones to Cyber Crime Unit for analysis.
Satar and Juma did not oppose the application filed before Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi of Milimani Law Courts.
The case will be mentioned on October 22.
Halbeeg News and The Star
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