Kenya: Grenade Man Pleads Guilty to Terror Charge

26 October 2011

A 28-year-old man arraigned in court in connection with an arms cache found in a house in Nairobi's Kayole Estate has confessed to being a member of Somali terror group Al-Shabaab."Yes, it is true," Mr Elgiva Bwire Oliacha alias Mohammed Seif responded to the charge of being a member of the terror group.

Mr Oliacha also admitted to have been in illegal possession of firearms, including an AK-47 rifle, a submachine gun, two revolvers, 13 live hand grenades and 770 assorted rounds of ammunition.

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