Driver attached to Cuban doctors who were kidnapped by Al Shabaab in Mandera found guilty

Rowbow was charged that on April 12, 2019, at around 9am in Mandera town, jointly with others not before the court, he facilitated the kidnapping and hostage-taking of Dr. Assel Herrera  Correa and Dr. Landy Rodriguez Hernandez. The accused was at the time driving the two doctors who had been seconded to the Mandera County Referral Hospital.

A police officer, Constable Mutundo Kitambo, who had been deployed on escort duties was killed during the incident.

The accused, who was a government employee attached to Mandera County, was charged with five offences; commission of a terrorist act, kidnapping and hostage, obtaining registration by false pretence and being unlawfully in Kenya respectively.

He was found guilty of all other counts apart from the fifth charge of being unlawfully in Kenya.

Two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped in Kenya and held for over a year in Somalia were released by Al Shabaab militants in October last year after months of negotiations. 

The abducted doctors had been among 100 Cuban specialists who arrived in the country in June 2018.