State links the late Aboud Rogo’s wife to terror attack

Haniya late Aboud Rogo’s wife (Courtesy)

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NAIROBI—Aboud Rogo’s wife senteced to 10 years in jail for aiding the terror attack at the Mombasa central police station in 2016.

Haniya, an articulate woman with a heart of steel, defended Rogo’s honour in life and death and came close to losing her own life for that. She was shot in the left leg and left for dead when her husband was killed by assassins on August 27, 2012.

Haniya  found herself in trouble with the law again, with authorities claiming she had a hand in a terror strike on Central Police station in Mombasa, through Tasnim Yakub Abdullahi Farah, one of the three women killed in the attack.

Detectives claimed Haniya communicated with Tasnim prior to the attack and there was some financial transaction between them.

Rogo’s widow often describes him as a man who was friendly to everyone but who was misunderstood by many people, including some muslim preachers who accused him of being a “lone ranger in religious circles.”