Three Kenyans charged with Uganda bombings

By Evelyn Kwamboka

Three Kenyans have been arraigned before a Uganda court in connection with the July 11 bombings that left 76 people dead.

The men were charged with murder as their relatives in Kenya waited for their habeas corpus cases to be heard before the High Court in Nairobi.

Hussein Hassan Agade, an employee of an FM radio station in Nairobi, Christopher Mangondu aka Idris, and Mohammed Adan Abdow were also charged with terrorism and attempted murder before a Kampala magistrate’s court.

The three who did not take a plea, face 61 counts of murder for those killed while watching the World Cup final at the Kyadondo Rugby Club and 15 counts for those killed at an Ethiopian restaurant.

Families filed a case

They were taken to court barely 24 hours after Mangondu and Agade’s families filed a case seeking they be produced.

The case is on the grounds that the police took them out of the country without extradition proceedings being conducted in any of the Kenyan courts. Agade, who was arrested last week, was being detained along with Hussein Mohammed Dafalla, before he was moved to a secret location.