Thanx Laye for sharing again. This character, does he have a visa for Kenya? Will Jamaica accept their citizen back? If so, can Kenya find a direct flight to Jamaica? I mean public official or not, I wouldn't want to be in a nation whose public do not wish to have me. Haruna.
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Radical muslim cleric back in Kenya
Y BERNARD MOMANYI
pdate 2 hours and 48 minutes ago
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 10 - Radical Jamaican Muslim cleric Sheikh
bdullah Al-Faisal is back to Nairobi after airlines in Nigeria
eclined to fly him to the Gambia where he had been deported to last
hursday.
One of his lawyers Mbugua Mureithi who addressed a press conference
longside Muslim Human Rights Forum Executive Director Al Amin Kimathi
n 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
rea GK Prison and we don’t understand why he is there because he has
ever been charged in court,” Mr Kimathi said.
They then telephoned his mobile phone and put him on loudspeaker
uring the press conference and he was heard saying: “I was deported
o the Gambia but when I reached Nigeria, an airline there declined to
ly 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
ccepting me. I was given a choice to make and chose there, but the
irline 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
uslim community out there to help me because I am a public figure,”
heikh Al Faisa added.
The preacher was deported from Nairobi on Thursday following orders by
mmigration Minister Otieno Kajwang.
During the press conference, Mr Kimathi and his lawyer asked him to
onfirm if he was interrogated by any other foreign security forces
ther than the Kenyan officers and he said: “I was not interrogated by
ny other forces, I was only interrogated by the police and the
mmigration police, they wanted to know how I had travelled to Kenya
nd I told them I came on (December 24), and I said I only have one
assport which has my names. I did not travel with any other documents
nd that is what I told them, and they said I was not supposed to be
n Kenya.”
“They were claiming that I travelled in a Christian name of Trevor
illiam Forest. That is a lie, I became a Muslim at the age of 16, and
hat 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
ever been charged. “I have never been tried with terrorism at any
ime 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
orning to compel the government to release Al –Faisal.
He said they were concerned “because he has expressed concerns at his
ealth which is now deteriorating and you see he is being held without
aving committed any crime. He wants to be released to the Muslim
ommunity.”
Police Spokesman Erick Kiraithe and Prisons Commissioner Isaiah Osugo
ere not immediately available for comment.
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