Another Muslim SHEIKH disappears in the hands of police as war on AL SHABAAB intensifies

Police arrested another top Muslim cleric in Garissa as the war against Somalia-based militants, Al Shabaab, intensifies and he has since not been seen.

Sheikh Abdullahi Khalifa was abducted by the police on Monday and has since been missing without any trace.

According to his family, three people who identified themselves as security officers arrested the Islamic teacher in front his students at Umul-Qura, an Islamic religion institution, and bundled him into a Land Cruiser.

Efforts by his children, who were among his students at the time, to shield him proved deadly and bore no fruits as police brandished guns and threatened to shoot them.

“They first demanded for his national identity card before grabbing his mobile phone. He was arrested by force in the full glare of his students,” said the cleric’s son, Abdi Khalif Abdullahi, at their home in Bula Salaam.

“While they were struggling to put him into the car, his youngest daughter who was among the learners, together with other students tried to shield him but the officers brandished pistols and threatened to shoot them,” he added.

Sheikh Abdullahi Khalifa is married to 4 wives with 19 children, who now fear they could die of hunger because the ‘good’ Sheikh was the sole breadwinner.