Kenya charges five over al-Shabab’s Garissa massacre when Christian students were brutally murdered

Kenya charges five over al-Shabab’s Garissa massacre when Christian students were brutally murdered
By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries and the ASSIST News Service
GARRISA, KENYA (ANS – June 5, 2015) – Five men have been charged in a Kenyan court with 162 counts of terrorism following the deadly assault by militant Islamists on Garissa University College in April.
The four Kenyans and one Tanzanian conspired to commit “a terrorist act” at the university, the charge sheet alleges. The men denied the charges.
According to the BBC, they are the first people to be charged in connection with the massacre.
Al-Shabab said it carried out the attack, which killed 148 people.
The group is headquartered in Somalia, but has become increasingly active in Kenya in recent years.
The Garissa attack was the deadliest carried out by al-Shabab, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda.
Most of those who died in the raid were students and the attackers singled out Christians to be killed, while sparing Muslims.
The names of the 148 killed were all read out in a court in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, the AFP news agency reports.
Judge Daniel Ogembo remanded the accused in custody until June 11th when the court will rule on their bail application, it reports.
Photo Captions: 1) The accused want to be released on bail (Photo: Reuters), 2) A funeral service for some of the victims. 4) Dan Wooding preaching at an open air Kenya church some years ago.
About the writer: Dan Wooding, 74, is an award-winning journalist who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for nearly 52 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the author of 45 books and founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). Dan hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on the KWVE Radio Network in Southern California and which is also carried throughout the United States and around the world, and also “His Channel Live,” a TV show beamed to 192 countries. He has reported many times from Kenya and spoken there also.
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