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Radical muslim cleric back in Kenya
BY BERNARD MOMANYI
Update 2 hours and 48 minutes ago

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 10 - Radical Jamaican Muslim cleric Sheikh
Abdullah Al-Faisal is back to Nairobi after airlines in Nigeria
declined to fly him to the Gambia where he had been deported to last
Thursday.

One of his lawyers Mbugua Mureithi who addressed a press conference
alongside Muslim Human Rights Forum Executive Director Al Amin Kimathi
on Sunday said they had located him to a prison facility in Nairobi.

“We have been able to locate him, he is being held at the Industrial
Area GK Prison and we don’t understand why he is there because he has
never been charged in court,” Mr Kimathi said.

They then telephoned his mobile phone and put him on loudspeaker
during the press conference and he was heard saying: “I was deported
to the Gambia but when I reached Nigeria, an airline there declined to
fly me to Gambia. I was then returned to Nairobi and now I am here.”

“I am a public figure, the Gambian government does not have a problem
accepting me. I was given a choice to make and chose there, but the
airline that was to fly me from Nigeria declined to take me on board.”

“Now I am in prison, I do not know how I got here and I would like the
Muslim community out there to help me because I am a public figure,”
Sheikh Al Faisa added.

The preacher was deported from Nairobi on Thursday following orders by
Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang.

During the press conference, Mr Kimathi and his lawyer asked him to
confirm if he was interrogated by any other foreign security forces
other than the Kenyan officers and he said: “I was not interrogated by
any other forces, I was only interrogated by the police and the
Immigration police, they wanted to know how I had travelled to Kenya
and I told them I came on (December 24), and I said I only have one
passport which has my names. I did not travel with any other documents
and that is what I told them, and they said I was not supposed to be
in Kenya.”

“They were claiming that I travelled in a Christian name of Trevor
William Forest. That is a lie, I became a Muslim at the age of 16, and
that is when I got the Muslim name which I have been using,” he said.

Terrorism links.

The cleric also denied knowledge of terrorism links, saying he has
never been charged. “I have never been tried with terrorism at any
time in my life. Not at all, therefore I am not in any list.”

His lawyer Mr Mureithi said he planned to go to court on Monday
morning to compel the government to release Al –Faisal.

He said they were concerned “because he has expressed concerns at his
health which is now deteriorating and you see he is being held without
having committed any crime. He wants to be released to the Muslim
community.”

Police Spokesman Erick Kiraithe and Prisons Commissioner Isaiah Osugo
were not immediately available for comment.

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