Wednesday November 10, 2021
Nairobi (HOL) - Muslim Residents in Kenya will be protesting against the forced disappearance and extrajudicial killings of members of the Muslim Community.
The Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM) Chairman Al-Hajj Hassan Ole Naado said security forces have unfairly targeted the community.
Supkem pointed the finger at the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU), which it said is fond of holding Muslims incommunicado.
"As part of a wide campaign to defend our rights, starting this Friday, we are calling upon all Muslims across the country to embark on rallies after Friday prayers to protest these gross injustices," Naado said.
The Muslim community in Kenya has been raising questions to the authorities questioning over the arrests and disappearances.
The most recent case is Professor Hassan Nandwa, who was on Monday, November 8 was freed and was found in Mwingi.
The professor was detained by suspected officers attached to ATPU on October 29, who raided his home along Ngong road.
"Islamic scholar, academician, and lawyer Prof Hassan Nadwa had been missing for two days now following a raid by ATPU officers at his home along Ngong Road," a statement by the family read then.
The professor's disappearance has been linked to his role as a representative to terror suspect Elgive Bwire Oliacha, who was involved in a double grenade attack in Nairobi in 2011 and even confessed to having done so.
In September, a Somali scholar Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdiswamad, who went missing, was released after two weeks.
In his sentiment with the media, Abdiswamad said that his abductors tortured him. He said this while shaken, just like in Professor Nandwa's case.
In May, another Somali- US national was abducted and found a week later.
His body was found at the Kirinyaga morgue after investigators retrieved it from a river.