The Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Mohamed Haji was rescued by his own blood brother from Westgate shopping mall during the tragic 2013 terror attack in Nairobi.
In a past interview with the Guardian, the UK based daily, Abdul Haji narrates how he received a distress SMS from his brother informing him that an attack had been staged at the mall where he was holed up.
He says that he was in Yaya Centre when he received the shocking message.
“I was at the Yaya Centre, having a business discussion with a friend when I got a chilling SMS from my brother Nordin,” revealed Abdul Haji. "He told me that he suspected there were terrorists within the mall and he just said ‘pray for me’… It was really confusing, I felt as though he was passing his last goodbyes to me,” added Haji, a then-38-year-old man of Somali origin.
It is then that he ran down to the center's basement parking where his car was and drove at a supersonic speed to Westgate mall.
“I can tell you that I broke all the city's traffic rules just to get there,” he added, saying that he feared for his brother’s life because he had been receiving death threats over his undercover role.
It is then that the DPP's brother swung into the rescue operations that saved a number of shoppers long before entry of security forces who took over the mission. Abdul Haji is a licensed gun holder.
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