Milimani Law court has convicted a man of conspiring with terrorists to bomb Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in January 2019.
Victor Odende Bwire was found guilty by Milimani senior principal magistrate Bernard Ochoi of conspiring to perpetrate a terrorist attack and gathering intelligence with the intent to commit a terrorist attack at KICC.
The prosecution established the two offenses beyond a reasonable doubt, according to the court.
While convicting Bwire, the magistrate noted that he admitted that he had been enrolled to collect intelligence reports on KICC’s security details, parking areas and its environs prior to the attack by terrorist.
The inmate established three Facebook profiles, which he used to collect data and distribute it to Somalia, as well as to the enlisting master Mohamed Yare Abdalla, who is serving a life sentence in Kamiti Maximum prison for terrorism.
According to the court, forensic analysis of phones seized from Bwire revealed that he had conveyed information about KICC’s security arrangements to contacts in Somalia.
Bwire was a terror operative who was paid by a terrorist organization located in Somalia.
The court noted that the evidence presented before it by an FBI detective Scott John was the one that provided linkages to the upcoming terror assault on government buildings in Nairobi, including the Supreme Court, KICC, and NSSF.
Following the revelation, government security personnel were deployed in the aforementioned buildings, and undercover detectives were stationed in key areas surrounding the aforementioned target government offices to collect information and data that led to the arrest of Bwire and his co-accused Yare.
