PHOTO | FILE The National Assembly’s committee on Administration and National Security chairman Asman Kamama.
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Killers of religious leaders at the coast have
not been identified because of failures in the intelligence gathering
system, the National Security and Administration Committee chairman
Asman Kamama has said.
Mr Kamama (below) told MPs, who
were angry at his committee’s response, that the situation was made
worse by prevalence of small arms.
The statement
followed a question by Abdullswamad Sherriff (Mvita, ODM) on the
apparent extra-judicial killings of nine Muslim preachers and two
Christian pastors at the coast.
“We have systemic
challenges in our intelligence so we have to agree that we need to
improve on our intelligence system so that we can investigate these
cases and come up with concrete answers,” said Mr Kamama.
He
said anybody with information about the killers of Sheikh Samir Khan,
Sheikh Ibrahim Omar, Gaddafi Mohamed, Isa Abdulla and Omar Abu Rumeisa
should take it to police.
He also defended the
rendition of five Kenyans to Uganda after the deadly bombings in Kampala
in July 2010, arguing it was in line with the East African Community
treaty.
The committee chairman said he raised the
issue of proliferation of small arms with the President. Illegal arms
had been recovered in Tana River and Baringo, and another operation
started in Baragoi two weeks ago, he added.
Shariff
Athman (Lamu East, UDF) said it was regrettable that victims of
extra-judicial killings were Muslims. “I would like full information
because I don’t think Muslims will be happy with the explanation he has
given,” he said.
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