Rashid Charles Mberesero
- “I am looking forward to visiting my son but I am waiting for procedures of visiting him since he is detained in a foreign country,” said the mother in an interview.
Dar es Salaam. Amina Ali , the mother of Rashid Charles Mberesero, the Tanzanian detained in Kenya over the killings of 148 Garissa University students, has appealed for help to enable her visit her son.
“I am looking forward to visiting my son but I am waiting for procedures of visiting him since he is detained in a foreign country,” said the mother in an interview.
Rashid was detained last week for 30 days before he is formally charged with the offence.
Kenyan prosecution applied for--and was granted--an extended custodial order against Rashid 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.
Ms Amina said yesterday she was waiting for relevant authorities to guide her on procedures to be taken that would enable her visit her son in Kenya.
Asked whether she has been visited by government officials since the arrest and detention of her son, she said: “No government official has visited me to date. The only visitors I get are journalists like you.”
But she said many friends and villagers had turned up at her home to console her since the news of her son’s arrest broke out over a week now.
“It’s like we are in mourning here but I leave all to God now. I am willing to go and talk to Rashid to know what happened but I have to wait because he is now in the hands of another country and only the government can intervene,” she said.
Ms Ali is a single monther and lives with a daughter at her modest home in Same District in Kilimanjaro Region. She is separated from the suspect’s father who is a prominent businessman in Dar es Salaam. She has claimed that she did not know that her son who was a Form Five student at Bihawana Secondary School in Dodoma absconded to join Al-shabaab.
Rashid was reportedly going to Somalia to join Al Shabaab but was arrested instead within Garissa University on the day of the fatal shootings. He was reportedly found hiding in the ceiling of one of the buildings with grenades. 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 over the attack include Mohammud Adan Surrow, an employee of a hotel in Garissa town.
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