Why police held eight children after raid in Kisumu mosques

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After details emerged of the identity of the Dusit D2 suicide bomber which revealed not only his brought up area as Majengo of Mombasa but also his recruiter responsible for his radicalization being non other than Ramadhan Hamisi Kufungwa.

Police say it is while attending prayers at Musa Mosque that Mahir met him. Soon after it has been reported that two chiefs ran to a mosque in the lake side town and held eight children for questioning over suspected radicalisation lessons.

The provincial administrators wondered why the children aged, between 11, 12, 13 and 14 years were holed up at the Mosque when they are supposed to be in school.

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The Friday 11 am raid led by Kisumu Central Chief Willis Onyoni and his Kaloleni assistant Mr Moses Otieno, took those at the Mosque by surprise.

The Chiefs went to the Mosque near Muslims Secondary School and found the children undergoing Islamic teachings. But they didn’t arrest any of them.

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According to the Chiefs, the government had rolled out free basic and compulsory education, where none of the school-aged children had an excuse to miss school.

He said they were responding to the government’s directive that Chiefs and their assistant be on the look-out for  attempts to radicalize  Kenyan children, given the danger terrorists were posing to Kenyans.  ”We went to the mosque after getting a tip.

We can’t take any chances. We are not judging them but doing our investigations,” said Chief Onyoni.

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