Anxiety, frustration in courts over collapse of terror trials

Terror suspects Ahmed Abdallah Ali (left) and Nassir Abdallah Ali Sikanda at a Mombasa Court on Tuesday 5th December 2017. The case acquitted the two suspects due to lack of evidence. The two were charged with detonating a grenade at Nyali Reef Hotel in Mombasa on 3rd May 2014. [Photo: Kelvin Karani]

Poor intelligence sharing was among concerns cited for the State's inability to successfully prosecute most terror trials.

Judicial and prosecution authorities in Mombasa proposed that an inter-agency committee be set up to review the prosecution of terror suspects in order to speed up trials and secure convictions.