IN KENYA TWO TERRORISTS SENTENCED TO DECADES IMPRISONMENT AS A DEADLY EARTHQUAKE ROCKS WESTERN TURKEY KILLING SIX

Convicted : Mohammed Ahmed (right) and Hassan Hussein (left) share idea with their Lawyer Chacha at Milimani lower criminal Court Nairobi County Kenya, before being sentenced to 26 years and 11 years imprisonment. PHOTO /CHRIS OJOW

Rescue workers pull survivers from the rubbles in the Turkish City of Izmir after a deadly strong earthquake strike killing six and over two hundred injured with seventy being pulled from the debris. PHOTO /CORRESPONDENT

IN KENYA TWO TERRORISTS SENTENCED TO DECADES IMPRISONMENT AS A DEADLY EARTHQUAKE ROCKS WESTERN TURKEY KILLING SIX

By Chris Ojow

On Friday 30th October 2020 was indeed a

black Friday as twenty Buildings were

destroyed in the Western Turkey, the City of

Izmir after a strong earthquake of 7.0

magnitude strike.

While in Kenya two convicts were sentenced to

several years imprisonment after being found

guilty of conspiring with the Terrorists group

and assisting the terror group Al Shabaab to kill

67 innocent Kenyans and foreigners at the

Popular mall West Gate situated within the

Capital City Nairobi.

In the Western Turkey, the City of Izmir a strong

Earthquake strike with a magnitude of 7.0

destroying close to twenty buildings including

residential with Turkey Nationals scampering

for safety while the rescue team combing the

debris pulling out survivors in the Turkish City

of Izmir .

The Turkish government confirmed that six

people died and over two hundred were injured

as rescue team manage to pull over seventy

people from the rubbles.

At the same hour in the East African Region

Super Power State, Kenya, two People a Somali

National and a Kenyan resident of Garissa

County were sentenced to 33 years and 18

years imprisonment, after being found guilty of

conspiracy to commit terrorism act contrary to

section 23 (4) of the terrorism act 2012 of the

penal code.

The offence was committed in the year 2013

where several innocent people lost their lives

totalling to sixty seven, after the assailants

were killed by the Country Kenya Defence Force

Special Forces after four days siege at the

Popular West Gate shopping mall within Nairobi

County.

During the sentence, the Chief Magistrate

Francis Andayi in his short delivery informed a

packed Court that the two Convict served seven

years in remand and according to article 49 of

the New 2010 Constitution of the Republic of

Kenya, it was the discretion of the trial Court to

deduct the seven years spend in remand prison

from the actual sentences.

Whereby the first Convict a Somali National 31

year old Mohammed Ahmed Abdi the only Son

in a polygamous family and came to Kenya 14

years ago will serve 26 years in Kenyan

Maximum Prison Kamiti together with his co

convict 31 year old Hussein Hassan from a

pastoralist family and a herder never attended

any formal education, the fifth born in a family

of nine sibling who’s sentence was reduced to

eleven years after deducting seven spend years

in remand prison during the lengthy trial at

Nairobi Milimani Law Court.

Several heads of States Globally has send their

condolences to the affected family of the

deadly strong Turkish earthquake, with four

Countries Belgium, Turkey, Greece and

Macedonia suffering the effect of the deadly

Earthquake, bringing back the memories of

Tsunami within the deadly World Oceans.

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