The widow of Muslim preacher Aboud Rogo has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a foiled attack at Mombasa's Central Police Station.
Haniya Said was on Friday
found guilty of facilitating the 2016 attack during which police killed three women.
In her ruling, senior principal magistrate Diana
Mochache said Said communicated with the women five days before the incident.
The DPP
proved she contacted one Tasnim
Yakub using an Airtel line. Another one of the three women was identified as
Fatuma Omar.
Mochache added that Rogo's widow housed the criminals.
Of their killing, the magistrate said: "The officers acted in self-defense
after
the women hurled a petrol bomb and stabbed an officer manning the station."
After the incident, police
said three women in hijabs
went to the station pretending they wanted to report a crime.
Two were shot dead at the report office and the third one as she attempted to escape.
Muslims for Human Rights questioned
the manner in which the women were killed and challenged police reports that they were
suicide bombers on a mission to blow up the
station.
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