Earlier on it has been reported that eight children have been held for suspicions that the mosque they were in could have been offering radicalisation lessons and so were being questioned after two chiefs hurried to the mosque in the lakeside town.
They wondered why the children aged between 11,12,13,14 years were holed up in the mosque yet they were suppose to be in school.
“They are not under arrest. We are still talking to them to find out why the children are not going to school,” said the Chief.
But some of the teachers found with the children, dismissed claims they could be involved in clandestine activities.
”They are just being inducted into Islam ritual religiosity at their tender age. It has nothing to do with any extreme act or criminal behavior,” said Mohamed Ibrahim.
Another teacher, Mohammad Shukri said they had not done anything wrong to warrant the raid and question.”We are just doing the routine prayers and teachings as is enunciated in our Muslims tradition, ‘he explained.
Mean while police have unearthed that blown up in smithereens,25-year-old Mahir Khalid Riziki was born and brought up in Majengo area of Mombasa town.
Its said by the investigators that it while attending prayers at Musa Mosque that Mahir met his recruiter, Ramadhan Hamisi Kufungwa.The Imam is currently in Somali fighting alongside AL-Shabaab while inviting more Kenyan recruits
For nearly a decade, Musa Mosque has been associated with radicalisation, recruitment for Al-Shabaab and religious violence.