POLICE are yet to make any arrest in connection with the attack on a Muslim cleric by radical Muslim youth on Thursday morning. Sheikh Ali Bahero, the imam at Masjid Rahma in Bakarani, Kisauni constituency, was attacked near the controversial Masjid Musa in Majengo, which was recently renamed Majid Shuhadaa.
Bahero was confronted at Gateway Academy, where he teaches Islamic Religion Education, by youth armed with knives and stones. He was stabbed several times in the head before being rescued by moderate Muslims who took him to Jocham Hospital. Bahero was admitted at the ICU.
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