Police cables claim Makaburi plotted to kill preachers

MOMBASA: Kenya’s security establishment believed early last year that radical Islamist Sheikh Sharif Abubakar alias Makaburi ordered the murder of moderate Muslim preachers before he was shot and killed on April 1 last year, according to leaked spy cables.

This assessment is contained in a document dated March 5, 2014  sent by the National Police Service to key police formations across Kenya. Makaburi was killed less than a month later in broad daylight outside Shanzu Law Courts in Mombasa.