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Three families from Mombasa and Kilifi are appealing for justice after individuals they identified as government security agents, allegedly barged into a Mosque compound and abducted their loved ones ruthlessly.

Families who addressed the press in Mombasa said abductors raided Islamic Library Trustee which hosts a Madrassa namely Markaz Noor, and a Mosque called Masjid Noor in Mtondia Mwaeni area of Kilifi County on the night of August 15 where they fished out the three officials of the Islamic institution and disappeared to unknown location.

Mohammed Khalid Salah whose father, Khalid Salah 48, was among the victims, the abductors accessed the compound by scaling over a perimeter wall before breaking into the staff quarters specifically targeting the three victims.

“After breaking the doors they claimed that there were firearms hidden in that place. They caught hold of my father and started harassing him.

They introduced themselves as police officers and picked my father and two others…they promised us that they will take them to Malindi for interrogation and return them by 9:am.

They even interrogated my sisters whether my father was involved in murders,” Salah explained: “Others proceeded to the mosque where the broke into the server room and took away the CCTV system recorders.”

Denies involvement 

Salah said his father who is originally from Tudor area of Mvita sub county in Mombasa was an innocent man who took care of his family by running his “small businesses” locally and “has never been involved in any criminal activity.

Khalid Salah was abducted alongside Juma Shamte and Hassan Ouma who is in his late 20s.

Yussuf Mahmoud Abubakar a Mombasa-based lawyer who has been hired by the family to pursue the case said “There is no doubt that police have been involved in the abduction.”

“I have talked to witnesses of the incident and I am convinced that police were responsible for the incident.

I know police will deny this but we are asking them to follow the law. If they suspect a person of any crime, then they should arrest them and take them to court.

If then they are not involved then police have a responsibility of pursuing those involved,” said the advocate.

On his part Mvita MP Abdulswamad Sharrif said when he was informed of the incident, he called all police units who denied being involved in the matter.