Children testify against radical cleric

Samwel Wanjala Wabwire alias Salim Mohamed, a terror suspect, alights from a police vehicle during the hearing of his case at the Gandini Primary School in Kilifi County, yesterday. Salim is facing charges of recruiting pupils of the said school into Al Shabaab. (PHOTO: KELVIN KARANI/STANDARD)

Young Muslims yesterday testified in court of how a radical Islamic preacher facing terrorist charges urged them to avoid and kill non-Muslims through incendiary sermons.

Parents narrated that the suspect, Salim Mohamed Wabwire, secretly converted their children to Islam and extremist ideology, therefore turning the young ones against their mothers and fathers who confessed that they now live in fear of the preacher.