A Tanzanian National Rashid Charles Mberesero aka Rehani Dida in a Nairobi court yesterday where the prosecution was allowed to hold him until May 7.
- The prosecution yesterday applied for--and was granted--an extended custodial order against Mr Rashid Charles Mberesero alias Rehani Dida, who is believed to have had contact with the attackers who killed 148 people, 142 of them students, at the institution on April 2.
Nairobi. The Tanzanian arrested over the Garissa University killings last week will be detained for the next 30 days before he is formally charged with the offence.
The prosecution yesterday applied for--and was granted--an extended custodial order against Mr Rashid Charles Mberesero alias Rehani Dida, who is believed to have had contact with the attackers who killed 148 people, 142 of them students, at the institution on April 2.
The 21-year-old Form Five student will join five other suspects already in police custody who are being investigated over the Al-Shabaab massacre that has shocked the world.
Yesterday, Prosecutor Daniel Karuri said Mr Mberesero may have been involved in the attack. “Investigators have established that he had contact with the attackers,” Mr Karuri told a court in Nairobi yesterday.
The Tanzanian was reportedly going to Somalia to join Al Shabaab but was arrested instead. He is believed to have “concrete information” and police have said they need time to interrogate him.”
Other suspects in custody awaiting further directions on May 7, and who are also being probed over the attack, are Mr Mohammud Adan Surrow, an employee of a hotel in Garissa town where the terrorists dined before they struck, and Mr Osman Abdi Dakane, a security guard at the ill-fated campus who was arrested as he took photographs of the dead and made frantic telephone calls to suspected contacts in Somalia. The others are Mr Mohammed Abid Abikar, Mr Hassan Adan Hassan and Mr Sahal Diriye Hassan--who are said to have helped transport the weapons used during the attack. The trio were reportedly arrested while fleeing to Somali after the bloodbath. Documents presented in court link nine other suspects, among them a Yemeni and a Ugandan, to surveillance missions for “soft targets for terrorism”. The prosecution has yet to charge the suspects due to pending investigations.
The Yemeni, Mr Ahmed Mohamed Ali, was arrested at the University of Nairobi’s Kabete campus hostels but denied being a terrorist and told Magistrate Benson Nzakyo that he came to Kenya to study English. The suspect is among those who will spend the next 15 days in custody for further profiling.
The Ugandan, Mr Andrew Katende, was arrested alongside Mr Antony Maina and Mr Samuel Njuguna at a mall in Mlolongo on the outskirts of Nairobi. They were in the company of a Spaniard who has since been handed over to authorities in his home country for further investigation.
Mr Mustafa Abdi Yusuf and Mr Abdi Elimi Rage, who were arrested at the Nairobi Assemblies of God Church, are suspected to have been on a surveillance mission.
Also among the suspects was Mr Hassan Munguti Muiya, who says he is a beggar. The prosecution says, though, that he was arrested while trying to force his way into the Nairobi Pentecostal Church on Valley Road during Sunday service. He was wearing a Muslim head cap at the time. He will be detained for five days at Muthaiga Police Station.
Two other suspects, said to have been operating a “business front” for funding al Shabbat activities, have also been remanded in police custody for 15 days.
Another suspect said to have been on a surveillance mission was arrested at Pangani shopping centre and will be in custody for 15 days to help with investigations.
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