By Quresha Ali
NAIROBI-Muslim leaders from different organizations have come out to condemn the incessant violations of the rights of Muslims that have risen recently calling upon the government to protect and safeguard the rights of Muslims in the country.
A statement from the leaders on the enforced disappearances in possession of Frontier Online read thats ,two days ago, professor Hassan Nandwa an islamic scholar of repute , an academician and lawyer was kidnapped on his way home from the mosque.
The statement further clarified Hassan’s crime was discharging his professional duties as a lawyer and representing a client whose period was over in Jail.
According to the press statement,the lawyer’s family was intimidated after the police blitzed his home looking for Nandwa’s client whose whereabouts was unclear to his loved ones.
“I addition his family was subjected to harassment after armed police men raided his ostensibly to search for his missing clients which it is clear was abducted by police.” read the statement in part.
This comes even as interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i visited Jamia mosque in 2019 , promising to address those behind the extrajudicial kiliings and kidnaplings would be brought to justice but to no avail.
Cabinet Secretary of Interior and Coordination of National Government Dr Fred Matiang’i today paid a visit to Jamia Mosque Nairobi where he addressed the Muslim leadership in the country. The CS was accompanied by the Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai pic.twitter.com/CYOV0M1Omi
— Jamia Mosque Nairobi (@jamia_mosque) October 7, 2019
This is not the first a case of abduction reported that went unheard.
A month ago professor Abdiwahab from the northern Kenya and one of the leading academicians in the country was kidnapped and went missing for days and was later found yet nobody knows exactly why that happened and who actually was behind it .
