A court gavel[photo/gstatic.com]A Nairobi court yesterday ordered the detention of a Muslim religious teacher until today awaiting a ruling on whether to allow police to continue holding him for 30 days. The cleric was arrested over alleged involvement with the al-Shabaab terror group in Marsabit.
Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Martha Mutuku adjourned the ruling after the prosecution made an application seeking to have Sheikh Guyo Gorsa detained for a month to enable the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit to complete investigations into the alleged radicalization of youths in Marsabit and its environs.
Senior State Counsel Duncan Ondimu, while making application for custodial orders, told the court that the suspect was arrested January 13 at Madarassa Toba in Marsabit county pursuant to credible intelligence information that he was involved in terrorism.
He said the police, at the time of his arrest, seized his mobile phone which was fitted with a SIM card and SD card and are yet to be fully subjected for forensic examination and a report on the same obtained.
“The intelligence report so far received shows that the religious leader has been in constant communication with well-known terrorists based in Somalia and some within the country,” Ondimu told the court.