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Somali National Jailed For 30 Years For Spying For Al-Shabaab In Kenya
[RADIOSHABELLE] A Mandera court has jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
for 30 years a Somalia national accused of spying for al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
terror group.

Mr Abdirahaman Abdi Takow, 22, was found guilty of sneaking into Mandera GK Prison intending to collect information for the Lion of Islams.

Mr Takow was enjugged
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
on September 14, 2017 by two prison officers manning a watch tower at the prison.

Mr Hussein Osman Mursal, a prosecution witness and a warder at the prison told the court during trial that the accused entered the jail through an opening in the perimeter wall.

"I was at the watch tower when I saw the accused person enter the prison through an opening that construction workers were using while working on the perimeter wall," said Mr Musal.

The witness said the accused informed him that he was going to report a matter to police within the prison.

"He told me that someone had conned him Sh30,000 at the bus park promising to help him travel to Nairobi and he wanted to report that to police," said the witness.

A second witness told the court that the accused was with another person who was left outside the prison premises and took off on realising that Takow had been arrested.

"Another person was outside peeping through that wall opening and took off when we attempted to get him," said Mr Ali Mohammed Ibrahim, a prison officer.

Both witnesses told the court that their seniors had informed them of a planned attack on the prison by al-Shabaab and they therefore remained vigilant.

"The accused claimed that his money was taken just outside the Mandera Police Station where buses are searched by officers before leaving for Nairobi. He could not explain why he did not report the matter to officers doing the screening only to come to the prison," he said.

An anti-terror Police officer told the court that the accused was a Shabaab spy sent to gather information on the prison, cop shoppes and the military camp in Mandera Town.

"A multi-agency interrogation team concluded that the accused was an Amiyat (Al-Shabaab spying group) dispatched to Mandera to gather information," said the officer.

The ATPU officer told the court that al-Shabaab planned to attack several installations in Mandera including the prison, cop shoppe, county offices, military camp and the county referral hospital.
Posted by: Fred 2017-12-02
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