Garissa University guard denies terror
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Saturday January 09, 2016 - 12:46:08 in Articles / Opinions by Diirshe Maxamed
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Garissa University College terror attack sus- pects at the Milimani law courts last September 8. A security guard at Garissa University College is believed to be behind the April 2, 2015 terror attack in which 148 people were killed, a Nairobi court heard yesterday.
He said Abdi had been employed barely three months before the terror attack.
Wambugu was testifying in a case in which Abdi is charged alongside Mohamed Abdikar, Hassan Aden, Sahal Diriye and Rashid Charles, a Tanzanian, with executing the attack.
They have denied 162 counts of terrorism.
Rashid was separately charged with being in Kenya illegally.
The case was adjourned until March 3.
Elias Wambugu, the college’s chief security officer at the time, told magistrate Daniel Ogembo that inhouse guard Osman Abdi was supposed to be off duty, but was found in the compound on the day of the attack.
"I was surprised to find out Abdi was on duty, yet I had not assigned him that night. I only came to know he had been arrested a day after the attack,” Wambugu said.
"I was surprised to find out Abdi was on duty, yet I had not assigned him that night. I only came to know he had been arrested a day after the attack,” Wambugu said.
He said Abdi had been employed barely three months before the terror attack.
Wambugu was testifying in a case in which Abdi is charged alongside Mohamed Abdikar, Hassan Aden, Sahal Diriye and Rashid Charles, a Tanzanian, with executing the attack.
They have denied 162 counts of terrorism.
Rashid was separately charged with being in Kenya illegally.
The case was adjourned until March 3.
Garissa University guard denies terror
Garissa University College terror attack sus- pects at the Milimani law courts last September 8.