Thursday, August 12, 2010
The Muslim leaders claimed that women, children and old people have not been spared the harassment and intimidation of the police in Nairobi and the coastal city of Mombasa.
“What is however more worrisome is the rendition of some Kenyan nationals to Uganda without following the due process,” Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum told the press in Nairobi.
“Our laws in Kenya demand that no person may be extradited unless a court of law issues such orders. We do not know of their innocence or guilt. We know that the law presumes any person to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Therefore, innocent Kenyans were forcefully renditioned to Uganda by our security forces,” he added.
He accused the government of impunity and called on the police commissioner and the Minister of Internal Security to uphold the law and return Kenyans who were illegally renditioned.
Three Kenyans were arraigned last month before a Ugandan court in connection with the July 11 bombings that left 76 people dead.
Hussein Hassan Agade, an employee of an FM radio station in Nairobi, Christopher Mangondu, also known as Idris and Mohammed Adan Abdow were also charged with terrorism and attempted murder before a Kampala magistrate’s court.
Somalia’s Al Shabaab insurgent group had claimed responsibility for the twin bomb blasts in Kampala.
Source: APA