Mention the name Terror and Kenyans know exactly what that is and how it exactly feels to be a victim of one.
For sometime now, Kenya has been a victim of various terror attacks and with it has come a number of casualties.
It is for this reason that the Kenyan Government has therefore stepped up it’s war on terror and is doing all it can to ensure terrorism never has a place in the Country.
What then happens when the Government’s effors are continuosly jeorpadized by a few greedy individuals?
Well, it is now emerging that an Iranian envoy offered a whooping 150 million shillings to aid the escape of two Iranians who were facing Terror-related chargess.
According to DPP Noordin Haji, the Iranian Embassy colluded with lawyer Robin Nyangaresi and Wesley Kiptanui and Shemgrant Agyei for an escape plan.
The diplomat’s identify was not revealed. But the DPP said he has been following orders from Tehran to ensure Kenyan authorities are not aware of Iranian government involvement.
The two Iranians — Ahmad Abolofathi and Sayed Mansour — were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013 by a magistrates court over terrorism.
They appealed and their sentence was reduced to 15 years. The Court of Appeal later quashed their jail term, saying there wasn’t sufficient evidence to link them to the bomb-making materials recovered in 2012.
The DPP appealed the ruling with the case now pending in the Supreme Court.