Xinhua
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Lawyer Chaacha Mwita said Husna Ali Shaaban, the wife of Hussein Nderitu Abbas alias Mohamed, was arrested by the country’s anti-terror police early on Friday for unknown reasons.
"I don’t know why they are holding her for now because Nderitu has been in Nyeri (in central Kenya) for the last three weeks," Mwita said by telephone on Friday.
The latest development came after
police investigations freed Sylvester Opiyo also known
as Musa Osodo and three minors unconditionally and
ordered to return to the anti-terrorism police offices
on Friday for further questioning.
The suspects who were freed on
Monday night were interrogated again on Tuesday by
the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) to enable the
authorities unravel the cause of the Saturday
attacks which has so far claimed nine lives and
injured more than 60 others.
The three minors are students who were helping Opiyo offload his belongings from the vehicle since he was moving into a new house a few hours after the blast.
Mwita said Nderitu’s wife was picked up early on Friday for interrogation, adding that it was difficult to understand why she was being interrogated because her husband has been in central Kenya and was not around when the incident took place.
But the police said investigations
into the four grenades which were hurled in the middle
of commuters and bystanders at the Country Bus Station
was underway until those culpable are arraigned in
court.
"We are still investigating the
blast and will not rest until we arrest those behind
it," one of the police officers told Xinhua by
telephone on Friday.
Late last year, the police circulated Nderitu’s picture alongside that of Opiyo and ordered them to appear to the nearest police station for questioning in connection with a spate of crime which engulfed the country in December 2011.
Police said then that both suspects have cases pending in courts having been arrested in March and August 2011.
The two surrendered to police on December 24, 2011 after police released their photos to the public terming them wanted persons.
They were held and later released
without charge following intervention from their
lawyer.
Since then, there has been
heightened security around the country with security
agencies at an unprecedented state of alert amid
reports that Al-Shabaab have planned attacks against
Kenya and U.S. interests in the country.
The Kenya Defense Forces and Somalia’s
Transitional Federal Government troops have also
intensified their operations in southern Somalia.
The authorities had also called on
Kenyans to be on high alert and partner with the
security enforcers by reporting any suspicious
people to the police.
Kenyan officials blame the Al-Shabaab insurgents or their sympathizers for the bombings and shootings, although armed bandits also operate in the border areas.