NAIROBI, Jan 13 (NNN-KNA) — A family whose kin had been in US detention for more than 14 years without any charge or trial wants preservation of public security through executive restraint of personal liberty upon entry into Kenyan soil.
Abdulmalik Mohamed Bajabu, from Mombasa, Kenya who was in Guantanamo bay detention for more than a decade, is set to be released.
Bajabu was among five detainees cleared for release by US authorities from Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba.
The decision to release them was announced on Tuesday this week, by the Periodic Review Board, a US agency established to determine whether detainees at the facility were guilty.
The board cleared five detainees for release including three Yemenis, Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, Omar Mohammed Ali Al-Rammah, Suhayl Abdul Anam al Sharabi, one Kenyan Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu, and one Somalian Guled Hassan Duran. The three Yemenis and the Kenyan all were never charged with crimes but were held as “law of war” detainees.
Bajabu had been in the US facility since 2007, while Duran had been in the facility a year earlier 2006.
According to the periodic review board the suspect was inspired by a radical Imam to leave Kenya in 1996 to receive extremist training in Somali where he was recruited in the defunct Al-Qaida in East Africa (AQEA).
The US board also said Bajabu was involved in the execution of terrorism in Mombasa against the paradise Hotel and an Israel Airliner in 2002.
In their home, Likoni Sub-county Rajabu sister Mwajuma Rajab said the news of her younger brother’s release was conveyed by her friends through telephone after reading it in newspapers dailies.
Mwajuma said after her brother was arrested and extradited to the US her life was full of frustrations to a point she became sick.
She said Guantanamo bay US Military base made arrangements where she was able to communicate with her brother through Skype every three months.
Mwajuma revealed, at the time of arrest, her brother had been married and with three children.
She said the young child, who is 15 years old now, was three months old when her brother was arrested.
She told the media, her brother Mohamed used to work as a casual laborer at a flour mill factory but would later venture into fish supply business jointly with his Somali friend as business partners.
Mwajuma said later her brother and his Somali partner relocated to Somalia to pursue their fish sale business and would later return to Kenya where he was arrested on terrorism activities.
She said her brother was still in prison when their parents died. — NNN-KNA
