The Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) Thursday appealed to parents whose children may have gone to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab to convince them to return and surrender to Kenyan authorities.
CIPK was responding to a 10-day amnesty offered by Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery for such youths. CIPK also spoke a day after Christian leaders accused mainstream muslims of being indifferent to fundamentalists' attacks and hostile propaganda against Christianity.