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Police said the four
The two locals were later released before the
Police suspect the abductors, thought to be members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group are in possession of medical equipment and medicine. At times, they abduct doctors to help with matters medication in areas they control.
In 2019, al-Shabaab kidnapped two Cuban doctors working in Mandera before releasing them months later following negotiations which were led by local elders. The doctors were identified as Assel Herrera and Landy Rodriguez and were part of a 100-member Cuban team that had come to Kenya for work under an agreement between the two countries.
Their driver, one Robow, was accused of setting them to the krazed killers, leading to his subsequent prosecution. Robow who was driving the car in which the doctors were traveling, was charged with terrorism for alleged complicity in the kidnapping of the medics.
Robow faced five counts including the commissioning of a terrorist act, kidnapping, and hostage-taking, aiding and abetting a terrorist act, and obtaining Kenyan registration by false pretense. He denied all the charges.
On Wednesday, February 16, Nairobi principal magistrate Martha Nanzushi ruled that Robow was guilty of kidnapping the medics and aiding a terrorist act.
She said the prosecution did not prove Robow was a Somali national as had been earlier claimed. "I find the accused guilty on counts one, two, three, and four as charged. No sufficient evidence adduced to this court in respect to count five," the magistrate said.