Sakina Mariam Abdalla, mother to Ali Salim Gichunge, one of the slain terrorists linked to the January 15 DusitD2 attack has opened up about his slain son.
Sakina claims that her son went missing in 2014.
Appearing before Milimani Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi on Friday where she is charged with abetting the DusitD2 terror attack, Abdalla said that her son called in 2016, two years after he went missing.
Sakina informed the court that she reported Gichunge’s disappearance at Isiolo police station in 2015.
She told the court that Gichunge called once and informed her that he had won a scholarship to study Religious Islamic Education in Mogadishu, Somalia.
According to the slain terrorist mother, her son never called again until January 15 when she learnt that he was among the terrorists who attacked DusitD2 hotel complex at 14 Riverside drive in Nairobi.
"The last time I heard from my son was in 2016 when he told me he was studying Islam Education in Mogadishu,” she says in an affidavit filed in court by the Anti-Terrorism Police (ATPU).
Sakina refuted claims that he was in constant communication with her son and other people in Somalia.
She was arrested on January 16 in Kula Mawe, Isiolo County after the DusitD2 attack.
The elderly woman has been in custody and has been formally charged with aiding the terror attack.
The Director of Public Prosecutions wants the court to deny her bond and bail on grounds that she will interfere with witnesses.