A Kenyan court has sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for supporting the 2019 attack on a luxury hotel in Nairobi that killed 21 people.
During the trial, it emerged that Hussein Mohamed Abdille Ali and Mohamed Abdi Ali, both Kenyan nationals, had transferred money and helped obtain fake IDs for the militants who died in the attack on the DusitD2 compound.
The al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabaab, based in neighbouring Somalia, claimed responsibility for the daytime attack, one of the deadliest in Kenya.
The ruling comes six years after the attack that killed 67 people at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi and four years after the tragedy that killed 147 students at Garissa University in northern Kenya.
Al-Shabaab has vowed to take revenge on Kenya for deploying its troops to Somalia since 2011 and continues to carry out attacks in both Somalia and Kenya.
Judge Diana Kavedza, in announcing the sentence, said the decision was made in the interests of the survivors, who deserve justice.
She highlighted “one of the most comprehensive counter-terrorism investigations in Kenya’s history, with law enforcement pursuing not only the direct accomplices of the attackers, but also those who financed, facilitated and coordinated the logistics needed to carry out the attack.”
The 2019 victims included foreigners, including US and UK citizens.
Sourse: breakingnews.ie
