- Their female accomplice, Lydia Nyawira Mburu, was found guilty of forging a national ID card and sentenced to three years behind bars.
- She forged a national ID card bearing the name Jirma Huka Galgalo (deceased), who was a member of al Shabaab, purporting it to be a genuine document.
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The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has welcomed the conviction and sentencing of three terror suspects.
The suspects, two men and one woman, were Thursday sentenced to 19 and three-year jail terms respectively following their conviction last month.
Abdimajit Hassan Adan and Mohammed Osman Nane were found guilty of taking part in a failed terrorist plot on February 15, 2018, which was aimed at unidentified building in Nairobi.
Their female accomplice, Lydia Nyawira Mburu, was found guilty of forging a national ID card bearing the name Jirma Huka Galgalo (deceased), who was a member of al Shabaab, purporting it to be a genuine document.
She was given a three-year prison sentence by Senior Principal Magistrate Zainab Abdul who heard and determined the case.
In a statement on X Friday, DCI boss Mohamed Amin lauded the efforts detectives made in arresting and bringing the three to justice.
He said the two men were arrested in Isiolo when the explosives-laden Mitsubishi Outlander they were driving was intercepted by police.
Amin said the vehicle contained high explosive projectiles including pipe bombs concealed at the dashboard, five AK47 rifles, 36 loaded magazines among other weapons.
"Anti-terrorism detectives who had been trailing one of the suspects for a year after returning to the country from Somalia where he had fled and joined al Shabaab successfully intercepted the vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) but not without a gunfight that left one of the bombers dead. Two others narrowly escaped," the DCI boss said.
The two men had been charged with possessing firearms for terrorist activities in violation of the Prevention of Terrorism Act's section 12 A (1).
The charge carries a punishment of 19 years imprisonment.
According to DCI, they violated section 4 (3) (A) and section 24 of the Firearms Act.
They were also charged with being members of a terrorist group contrary to section 24 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
The charge carries a punishment of 15 years in prison.
Their female accomplice was charged with forgery contrary to section 349 as read with section 351 of the Penal Code.
Adan and Nane were sent to Kamiti Maximum Security Prison to serve their sentences after a trial at the Milimani Law Courts that lasted for six years.