In earlier circulating reports, it was revealed that the KDF sergeant terrorist Ali Salim Gichunge, alias Farouk’s father suspected his son could have been radicalised while studying at a Mombasa mosque where he was also a part-time madrassa teacher.
Coincidentally,fresh details that have emerged tell the blown up in smithereens Dusit suicide bomber is 25-year-old Mahir Khalid Riziki who was born and brought up in Majengo area of Mombasa town.
Police say it is while attending prayers at Musa Mosque that Mahir met his recruiter, Ramadhan Hamisi Kufungwa, now in Somalia fighting alongside Al-Shabaab and inviting more Kenyan recruits.
For nearly a decade, Musa Mosque has been associated with radicalisation, recruitment for Al-Shabaab and religious violence.
However, intervention by government security agencies and the Mombasa county administration has since led to removal of radical elements from the mosque and installation of more liberal religious leadership.
Most radical followers of Al-Shabaab ideology from the mosque have fled to Somalia.
It is not the first time Mahir has come under the security radar. Police say in 2014, he was part of an assassination cell tasked by Al-Shabaab to kill security personnel.