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Religious leaders join hands yesterday in a peaceful demonstration in
part of Nairobi to denounce Thursday’s Shabaab attack in Garissa
University that saw 148 people killed PHOTO | AFP
By The Citizen Correspondent and Agencies
Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said Abdirahim Abdullahi was
one of the four gunmen who attacked the Garissa University College
campus on Thursday, killing 148 people, among them 142 students.
Nairobi. Kenya on Sunday identified one of the Al Shabaab gunmen
who massacred students at a northeastern university as the son of a
Kenyan government official, the interior ministry said.
Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said
Abdirahim Abdullahi was one of the four gunmen who attacked the Garissa
University College campus on Thursday, killing 148 people, among them
142 students.
“The father had reported to security agents that
his son had disappeared from home... and was helping the police try to
trace his son by the time the Garissa terror attack happened,” said
Njoka.
Abdirahim is said to have gone missing from his
Mandera home one year ago with talk that he had joined the Somali
militant group Al Shabaab and travelled to Syria.
His father Chief Abdullahi of Bulla said: “I
buried Rahim long ago but the fact that my own blood took the lives of
100 innocents gives me enough regrets in life and has forever taken away
my hopes of living humbly.”
Abdirahim Abdullahi was also a trained lawyer from the University of Nairobi and worked as a legal officer at a local bank.
Abdirahim was identified after the Kenya Defence
Forces paraded four bodies of the slain terrorists in the streets of
Garissa for identification.
Five other people were also arrested in connection with the attack.
The mastermind of the attack, Mohamed Mohamud aka
Dulyadeyn, is a Kenyan of Somali origin. The suspected mastermind,
Mohamed Mohamud, a former teacher at a Garissa madrassa, is still on the
run. Kenya has offered a $215,000 (Sh450 million) reward for his
arrest.
President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Saturday that
those behind the attack were “deeply embedded” in Kenya, and called on
Kenyan Muslims to help prevent radicalization.
Four suspects were Kenyans of Somali origin, and the fifth was Tanzanian, the ministry said.
A Shabab spokesman, Ali Mohamoud Raghe, said the
attack had been carried out because “the Christian government of Kenya
has invaded our country,” a reference to the Kenyan military’s 2011
incursion into Somalia to oust the Al Shabaab from its strongholds.
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