NAIROBI,
Kenya, Apr 22 – A terror suspect nabbed at President Uhuru Kenyatta’s home in
Gatundu was on Wednesday arraigned in court by the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit.
Said
Mire Siyad who was arrested on Tuesday appeared before Resident Magistrate Edda
Agade where the prosecution asked for more time to question him.
State
Prosecutor Daniel Karori told the court that police are yet to establish
Siyad’s motive but they believe he was on a surveillance mission for a
terrorist attack.
Karori
said that since Siyad was arrested on April 21 (Tuesday), police have not had
adequate time to conduct investigations and require 15 days to complete the
probe.
Pursuant
to the brief investigation carried out, the suspect has other associates who
are yet to be arrested.
Karori
told the court that investigators require detailed extraction of mobile phone
records to ascertain the nature of communication and contact persons.
Eight
other terror suspects arrested in Nairobi – among them Omar Said Ahmed who
police believe is involved in terrorism – also appeared before the court on
Wednesday.
The
prosecution told the court that Ahmed is said to be conducting radicalisation
programmes for youths and has facilitated the disappearance of his son to join
Al Shabaab.
Police
will have to travel as far as West Pokot to collect more evidence against him
before a decision is made to charge him.
The
trial court ordered that the suspects be jointly held at Kilimani police
station for a period of 15 days to allow police to carry out investigations
into their activities.
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