EX-MANDERA DRIVER IN KIDNAP SAGA GUILTY OF AIDING TERRORISTS TO ABDUCT CUBAN DOCTORS.

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Former Mandera County Government driver Issack Ibrein Robow before Milimani Magistrate Court where he was found guilty on four counts, including the commissioning of a terrorist act, kidnapping and hostage-taking, aiding and abetting a terrorist act on Wednesday February 16,2022./PHOTO BY S.A.N.

BY SAM ALFAN.

A former driver of Mandera County government has been found guilty of abetting a terrorism act following the abduction of two Cuban doctors in 2019.

Issack Ibrein Robow was found guilty of aiding the abduction of the Cuban doctors during an incident in which a police officer lost his life three years ago.

Milimani Magistrate Martha Nanzushi said the driver was not a target in the kidnap since the abductors did not force him to stop but that he willingly stopped.

Robow was also guilty of three other counts, including the commissioning of a terrorist act, kidnapping and hostage-taking and obtaining registration by false pretences.

The magistrate relied on circumstantial evidence and noted that the accused failed to act during the incident.

“If the driver jumped from the motor vehicle and left the engine running, the circumstances would have been different,” she said.

Robow was an employee of Mandera for over 20 years until the incident happened.

He was, however, acquitted on the fifth count of unlawfully being in the country.

Magistrate Nanzushi ruled that although the prosecution had alleged that Robow was not a Kenyan national, it failed to prove that he is a Somali.

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