The hearing of a case of Egerton University terror hoax proceeded on Monday before a Nakuru court with two witnesses testifying.
Robert Mungai alias Robert Mohamed Bluez was accused of causing a security scare after posting alarming messages on social media on April 4.
An anti-terrorism police unit officer attached to the Njoro campus security department, Hillary Korir told the court that he received phone call from Egerton University Student’s Association vice chairperson about the messages that were posted on the campus's social media page.
Korir said that he read the messages that he read before court saying “Next al-Shabaab we are coming and we are.... Egerton, massacre be prepared," he reads parts of it.
He told the court that the suspect whom he did not know until he was arrested posted several messages on the April 3 and 4 prompting him to report the matter at the Nakuru CID offices.
Korir also told the court that some of the messages were written in Arabic and he could not understand what the words meant.
He said that the Facebook account Egerton Campus Life is accessible for everyone to post anything they want.
Another witness who also testified as prosecution witness number was Corporal Solomon Limo, an anti-terror police unit based in Eldoret.
He said that he was informed by the CID on April 9 to join police officers in Njoro to interview a suspect believed to be behind the terror scare circulation at Egerton University.
“We interviewed him and we realised that it was from his Facebook account that he was circulating the hoax,” he said.
Limo also told the court that Mungai told him that he walked himself to Nakuru police station after seeing himself on local channel regarding the terror scare.
During a cross-examination by a defense lawyer, the two witnesses failed to show the court that they had hard evidence that it was Mungai who posted the messages.
The prosecution requested for adjournment to bring the three remaining witnesses, two experts and the investigating officer.
The case will be further heard on November 3.