Sheikh Ibrahim Omar aliuawa kwa kupigwa risasi akiwa na washirika wake watatu.
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Polisi
ya Kenya imetangaza kuwa, watu wanne akiwemo Sheikh Ibrahim Ismail Rogo
wameuawa baada ya kupigwa risasi na watu wasiojulikana ndani ya gari
dogo jana usiku huko mjini Mombasa.
Taarifa
ya Polisi ya Kenya imeeleza, Sheikh Ibrahim Rogo alikuwa mrithi wa
Sheikh Aboud Rogo ambaye naye aliuawa na familia yake kwa kupigwa
risasi na watu wasiojulikana mwezi Agosti 2012.
Mauaji
ya Sheikh Ibrahim Rogo ambayo yameutikisa mji wa Mombasa, yametokea
baada ya kupita takriban wiki mbili tokea kundi la al Shabab lilipovamia
na kuua watu wasiopungua 63 na kujeruhi mamia ya wengine kwenye jengo
la maduka ya biashara la Westgate jijini Nairobi.
Baadhi ya wananchi wa Mombasa wanakituhumu kikosi maalumu cha kupambana na ugaidi kuwa ndicho kilichotekeleza mauaji hayo.
Sheikh
Ibrahim Rogo ambaye alikuwa akitoa mihadhara kwenye Msikiti wa Musa
mjini Mombasa alituhumiwa na jeshi la polisi kuwa anawachochea vijana wa
Kiislamu kujitumbukiza kwenye makundi ya kigaidi.
Polisi
ya Kenya imesema kuwa, Gaddafi Mohammad, Issa Abdallah na Omar Abu
Rumeisa ni miongoni mwa waliouawa, naye Salim Aboud alinusurika kwenye
shambulio hilo.
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Protestors on Friday engaged armed police in running battles in Mombasa following killing of a Muslim cleric, and three others.
The rioting youths in Majengo area set a church on fire.
Earlier
in the morning, hundreds of armed police were deployed across islamist
strongholds in Majengo and Kisauni as authorities anticipated riots
from slain Sheikh Ibrahim Rogo’s militant supporters.
Tension
which has been building up since Thursday’s blood end of Sheikh Rogo
and his three friends was expected to reach boiling point at the
afternoon Friday prayers in areas like Majengo especially at Musa Mosque
where the slain preacher delivered controversial ceremonies.
Reports
show that Sheikh Ibrahim delivered a lecture at the mosque at about
8.00pm on Thursday before embarking on his last journey to meet his
end in a drive by shooting near the Butterfly Pavillion afew minutes
before 10.00pm long the Mombasa-Malindi road.
Unconfirmed
reports indicate the four were buried in the early hours of Friday at
the same cemetery where slain radical islamist Sheikh Aboud Rogo
Mohamed was buried on August 27 last year.
It is not clear whether the two Rogos are related.
Reports indicate the four victims were buried in a single grave at the Tudor Muslim Cemetery and accorded the rites of martyrs.
Supporters have identified the other victims as Abu Rumaysa Omar and others identified only as Issa and Shebe Gaddafi.
Salim
Aboud who was with them escaped unscathed but with brief facial
injuries after playing dead among the slumped corpses inside a bullet
ridden car.
Militant
islamist Sheikh Abubakar Shariff alias Makaburi who was among the first
people to reach the scene of crime declared Thursady’s events as “an
assassination” claiming state agents slew the four muslims “in
retaliation†for the terrorist carnage at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi
last month.
Makaburi
who is facing terrorist charges and was  an ally of slain islamist
Sheikh Aboud Rogo Mohamed claimed Sheikh Ibrahim Rogo was the target of
Thursday’s shooting because of his past links to the former Rogo who
was killed on August 27 last year.
And
Makaburi denounced the Kenya government and  muslims collaborating
with it following the Westgate massacre and in light of Thursday’s
events.
He
further warned that muslims are now justified to disobey Kenyan laws
“because we cannot sit back and be slaughtered or see our sheikhs killed
everyday.”
As they descended on the scene where the four were killed militant supporters of the slain preacher swore to avenge the killing.
According
to Kisauni OCPD Julius Wanjohi who covers Bamburi where the killings
took place, the four were killed when a “vehicle with unknown occupants
sped past the car which was carrying Sheikh Ibrahim and four others and
slowed a few metres from the vehicle.”
The OCPD says the occupants of the unknown car opened fire on the right side of the approaching car carrying Sheikh Ibrahim.
Wanjohi
further says Sheikh Ibrahim and three others were killed “on the spot
and the vehicle sped away” apparently towards Bamburi.
According to the OCPD Sheikh Ibrahim’s car was heading towards Mtwapa where he is believed to live.
Source: Standard
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