Businessman Abdulrazak Haji. [Photo/nation.co.ke]
A Mombasa-based businessman has accused police of false arrest. Mr Abdulrazak Haji was arrested at a shopping mall in Nyali, Mombasa, two days to the end of the year, the Nation has reported. Haji claimed that two unknown persons trailed him as he moved across town shopping before they arrested him. Haji said the men claimed they were from the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) but they did not show him their identification cards. He also said that they took his fireman and asked for his license, which he had not carried.“They took my firearm and asked if I had a license. I replied in the affirmative and they promptly asked for its certificate …,” he said, as quoted by the daily.He explained to them that he had kept the license at home but they demanded to see the same.The businessman was obliged to accompany them to his home to show them the certificate. The officers, however, started ransacking his home, claiming they were looking for anything suspicious and later asked him to accompany them to Nairobi for investigations.His efforts to know why he had been arrested proved futile as the officers allegedly said they were acting on orders from Nairobi. Haji was later taken to the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi where the officer asked for five days to complete their investigations.Haji said he later learnt that he was being investigated for radicalising youths. The court allowed police to detain him and he was later transferred to the ATPU headquarters.According to the daily, Haji was later released unconditionally on December 29 without charge, after the prosecution found nothing linking him to the crimes he was arrested for.Is there a newsworthy accident, incident or event happening in Mombasa County that you want Hivisasa to cover? Tell us what is happening by joining this group and have it published. http://bit.ly/2BipYa6