Nairobi. Another Tanzanian who was arrested by Kenya’s Anti-Terror Police Unit officers while allegedly heading to Somalia for training with Al Shabaab was on Monday charged with admitting to being a member of a terrorist group.
Mr Abdulaziz Abdullahi Sultan, alias Mohammed Abdalla, appeared before Garissa Resident Magistrate Victor Asiyo charged with professing to be an Al Shabaab member.
The 22-year-old man was arrested at Modika police barrier, 10 kilometres from Garissa Town, by police officers on patrol.
The prosecution said Mr Sultan entered Kenya through the border town of Lunga Lunga on May 4.
He was remanded at Garissa Police Station for two weeks as investigations continue.
The case will be mentioned on May 25 and heard on July 13.
Mr Sultan becomes the second Tanzanian to be arrested and arraigned in court following the Garissa attack where 148 people, most of them students, were killed.
Another Tanzanian, Mr Rashid Charles Mberesero, was arrested in connection with the attack.
He was charged in Nairobi last month.
The prosecution applied for—and was granted—an extended custodial order against Mr Mberesero alias Rehani Dida, who is believed to have had contact with the attackers who masterminded and carried out the attack at the institution on April 2.
The 21-year-old Form Five student was arrested a few days after a 19-year-old Tanzanian woman was arrested in Kenya on suspicion of terrorism.
Ms Ummul Khayr Sadir from Zanzibar was seized alongside Kenyan companions Khadija Abubakar Abdulkadir and Maryam Said Aboud—both aged 19.
Investigators said was studying medicine at the International University of Africa in Khartoum.
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