Kahawa law court has handed 30 years of jail term to the two accused person’s found guilty of facilitating the Dusit D2 terror attack that claimed 21 lives with several injured severely six years ago.
Hussein Mohammed Abdille Ali and Mohamed Abdi Ali who have been in trial since 2019 were found guilty of conspiring to commit a felony. Hussein faced an extra charge of facilitating a terrorist act, while Abdi Ali faces fourteen counts of the same offence.
Justice Kavedza, in her ruling stated that the terror attack undermined Kenyans’ dignity and the country’s sovereignty. “Having considered the evidence before me, I hereby find the two accused persons guilty of facilitating the planners and attackers of the Dusit D2 terror attack,”
Hussein according to the court particulars was a standard eight pupils at the time of the attack and was aware of the registration of IDs that were linked to the terror attack.
The second accused person Mohamed accordingly, used a SIM card registered in his name to transfer Sh836,000 to the lead attacker. It was noted that the attackers were hosted in his house.
Previously, one suspect had been convicted in January this year after he pleaded guilty to four counts linked to a terror attack including providing internet services to the Dusit D2 planners and attackers, forging an ID, and submitting false information to obtain a passport. This was after the suspect entered into a plea agreement with the prosecution.
The prosecution presented 45 witnesses whose evidence and testimonies proved that the suspects had a case to answer a ruling that was done on January 21, 2025.
The mastermind of the attack Ali Salim Gichunge received more than Sh 800,000 to phone numbers linking him on different amounts and days.
The court also noted that one of the mobile phone numbers used to wire the money was registered to Salim’s deceased brother, Isaack Abdi.
“Without financiers, facilitators and sympathisers, terrorists cannot actualize their activities. The convicts may not have physically wielded the weapons that caused harm to the victims, but their facilitation directly enabled attackers who were heavily armed with guns, grenades and suicide vests,” Kavedza said.
Acknowledging that the victims struggled with their emotions due to psychological and emotional scars, Kavedza noted that the attack was not a crime with isolated harm “21 lives were lost and emotional scars of the attack run deep,”
They have 14 days to appeal.
