40 Witnesses Lined up in Cuban Doctors’ Abduction Case

The Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has lined up 40 witnesses to testify against the two Cuban doctors’ driver.

The accused  Issack Ibreim Robow was flown from Kamiti Maximum Prison to Mandera on Wednesday amid tight security to enable witnesses to testify on what transpired on April 12, 2019, when armed Al Shabaab gunmen abducted the medics and drove them inside Somalia.

The prosecution that could see Robow handed life imprisonment is being led by Mr. Harrison Kiarie from Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi.

Robow is accused of committing terrorism, kidnapping and taking hostage, aiding and abetting terrorism, obtaining registration as a Kenyan citizen by false pretense and being in Kenya unlawfully.

The two Cuban doctors abducted by the jihadist group Al-Shabaab [Photo, Courtesy]
The hearing began Wednesday with a police officer Ramadhan Barua who had been assigned to protect the Cuban doctors testifying that he ran for safety after being overwhelmed by four men wielding AK47 guns against his Ceska pistol.

The driver, according to Mr. Barua stopped the white GK land cruiser that was transporting the medics to Mandera county hospital seconds after the probox carrying the assailants overtook it.

Mr. Ahmed Sheikh, another witness told the court sitting within the police station, at the command center where security meetings are held that he saw the probox overtake the land cruiser before the driver stopped instantly.

Mr. Sheikh, a tuk-tuk driver told Principal magistrate Martha Nazushi that four men wielding guns came out of a white probox that had stopped in front of the medic’s vehicle that they fired towards. Hearing continues.

Source: KNA

 

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