Intrigues behind the radicalisation, terror links and executions at the Coast

The late Idris Mohamed Sheikh, Aboud Rogo and Sheikh Sharif Abubakar Makaburi. [File, Standard]

Events of 1990, the year Sheikh Aboud Rogo led radical clerics out of the Islamic Party of Kenya (IPK) and 2012 when an assassin ended his life, appear to have set Coast to its dark years of killings.

Before Sheikh Rogo shot into the limelight, however, reports indicate that most killings of the 1990s at Coast were linked to the drug trade.