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| Mwanga MP and Minister for Water, Prof Jumanne Maghembe. |
y Daniel Mjema, The Citizen Correspondent
Posted Monday, April 6 2015 at 10:04
Posted Monday, April 6 2015 at 10:04
Mr Rashid Charles Mberesero has been described as
hailing from Mwanga’s Usangi Village even contacted members of the
well-known Mberesero family distanced themselves from the man and
appealed to police to carry out more investigations to verify his
“actual identity”.
Moshi. The Tanzanian man arrested in connection with last week’s
deadly Al Shabaab attack on a Kenyan university in which at least 148
people were shot dead, has been reported as hailing from Kilimanjaro
Region’s Mwanga District.
Mr Rashid Charles Mberesero has been described as
hailing from Mwanga’s Usangi Village even contacted members of the
well-known Mberesero family distanced themselves from the man and
appealed to police to carry out more investigations to verify his
“actual identity”.
The news of Mr Mberesero’s arrest soon after the
massacre at Garissa University College on Thursday, and his link to
Kilimanjaro has come as a shock to most residents in the region,
including the Mwanga MP and minister for Water, Prof Jumanne Maghembe.
“News that the suspect is from Mwanga has shocked
me. I know the said Mberesero family, but most of them are Christians.
The suspect’s full name suggests he be could belong to either of the two
religions,” said Prof Maghembe (pictured) in an interview with The
Citizen yesterday.
Media reports in Kenya first reported of the
arrest of the Tanzanian suspect who was flushed from the ceiling of one
of the buildings that came under attack. The reports quoted the Kenyan
police as confirming his nationality.
On Saturday Kenya’s Interior Ministry spokesman
Mwenda Njoka said Mr Mberesero, who was neither a student nor a resident
of the university, was seized while in possession of several rounds of
ammunition at.
“We believe the suspect, who is from Tanzania, was
among the attackers. He was found with bullets and hiding in the
ceiling and was immediately arrested,” said Mr Njoka.
He added that the said Tanzanian national is now
among scores of suspects who are in custody in connection with the raid
that was the worst Al Shabaab attack on Kenyan soil.
In Mwanga, a member of the Mberesero family, Mr
George Mberesero, told The Citizen yesterday that they have been
receiving calls from different people inquiring about the said Rashid.
“We don’t know this Rashid Charles Mberesero. We
are an all-Christian family but the said suspect’s first name suggests
he’s Muslim. We are appealing to investigating teams from both Kenya and
Tanzania to find out the correct position with regard to this matter,”
he said.
Separately, other Usangi residents who The Citizen
contacted recalled that a suspect whom they didn’t immediately know was
arrested in the area last year and was in possession of an Al Shabaab
flag.
“We remember the police arrested a young man with
the flag but they later released him following intervention some elders,
said one resident who requested not to be named since the matter was
sensitive at the moment.
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