September 21, 2013, will remain etched in the memory of the current Director of Public Prosecutions, Noordin Haji.
The DPP had just visited the mall to transact his businesses when the militants based in Somalia Alshabab staged unprecedented attacks that claimed the lives of 69 Kenyans.
Confused, the boss phoned his brother, Abdul Haji, who arrived at a supersonic speed with a view to rescuing his brother.
"I was here (Yaya Centre), having a business meeting, when I got an SMS from my brother,” Haji, a Kenyan businessman, told the Guardian in a September 2013 interview.
“He (Noordin) said he thought there was a terrorist attack at Westgate and he said ‘pray for me’… It was very confusing, it was like he was saying his last goodbyes.”
Fearing for his brother’s life because Noordin had been outed on Kenyan TV as an undercover intelligence officer, Mr Abdul valiantly bulldozed himself in the rented buildings and managed to rescue his brother successfully.
As fate would have it, Mr Noordin, who joined the list of Kenyans who survived terror attack by Alshabab, was picked to head the lucrative position of DPP on March 15 by President Uhuru Kenyatta.