Wednesday, 3rd July 2019, a Kenyan court handed jail terms for three convicts for their involvement in the Garissa University attack in April 2015 that left 148 people, mainly students killed.
A Nairobi chief magistrate handed terror operative identified as Rashid Mberesero a life imprisonment while Mohammed Abdi Abdikar and Hassan Edin Hassan were handed 41 years in prison.
While giving his verdict, the chief magistrate noted that Abdikar and Hassan were found to be sorry and were not immediately found at the scene of crime but were arrested at different places in Garissa and Mandera in northeast prefectures of Kenya, while Mberesero who was found at the scene of crime had indicated he was going to join the Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
The chief magistrate noted that the evidence against the two; Abdikar and Hassan do does not make them as principal offenders but secondary offenders and thus handed them 41 years in jail.
The armed Al-Shabaab militia stormed Garissa University and shot indiscriminately, killing 148 people, among them students and security officers and injuring 79 on April 2, 2015.
The mastermind of the attack, Mohamed Mohamud, also known as Muhamed Kuno Gamadheere alias Dulyadeen was killed by Jubaland forces after they carried out a special operation on Wednesday, 1st of June 2016 in Farwamo village near Bulogudud, 30km north of Kismayo.
