Two days after the terrorist attack at the 14 Riverside office and hotel complex, there are claims that the courts may have played a role in motivating the attackers.
According to the Inspector General of Police, Joseph Boinett, all the five terrorists were killed at 14 Riverside and several arrests made elsewhere as investigations continue to unearth shocking details of how it was planned.
Speaking to CitizenDigital earlier this week, Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja said he had received credible information that one of the attackers involved in the terrorist attack at 14 Riverside was released from police custody a day before.
It would be very difficult to run this nation without the courts. Without the courts, there would be a lot more terror attacks. Sometimes the narrow-mindedness of Jubilee simpletons amazes me. It is as if they would prefer the system where the judiciary was an appendage of the executive. It is as if they would prefer an arrangement where people wouldn’t be given bond (which is a tragedy, given that a good number of the people who are arrested turn out to be innocent bystanders). It is as if they would prefer a system where everyone who is take to court would be automatically convicted. The mind boggles.
It took five years for the courts to find that three Westgate suspects had a case to answer.
On January 14, 2019, a Nairobi court ruled that Mohamed Ahmed Abdi, Liban Abdullahi Omar and Hussien Hassan Mustafah would stand trial for the killing of 71 people at Westgate mall five years ago.
One suspect was however freed. A day later, gunmen descended on the 14 Riverside complex.
On Thursday, Kenyans took to social media lashing out at the Judiciary over slow decisions on cases and letting suspects linked to heinous crimes go scot free.
Probably the judiciary, as an arm of the government, was trying to keep kenyans safe by keeping the suspects in pre-conviction detention. It should be commended. Probably they saw that the evidence available was not enough to convict the fellas. So the case was slowed down, to buy time (all the while with the suspects in remand). It is not a good approach – a good approach would be to acquit them at the earliest, if there’s no enough evidence – but it is at times the only thing the judiciary can do to keep the nation safe. It is called the public interest consideration. Btw: Getting enough evidence to convict these terrorism cases is never easy, especially seeing that these attacks seem to be okayed by some high up individuals in the government to justify various things. Like mandatory military training, which is being floated around after tuesday’s crap (how convenient?).
The judiciary delays all cases be they corruption, terrorism, land cases, murder, rape, traffic, civil, name them. There has been a serious problem with how the judiciary operates in Kenya for a long time. Backlog of cases to the 1970s. Remember justice delayed is justice denied
Very lame excuse I have ever come across. Five years! It is better to acquit them early and the DPP knows from the rulings their failure and address them.