The troubled life of Rogo’s widow as State links her to terror attack

Haniya Said Sagar, widow of slain Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo in a Mombasa court yesterday. She was remanded for seven days to give police time to investigate alleged links to one of the suspected perpetrators of Sunday’s attack on Mombasa Central Police Station. [PHOTO: Kevin Karani/STANDARD]

Listening to Haniya Said Saggar defend her late husband Sheikh Aboud Rogo reminds older readers of Yoko Ono’s steadfast defence of the late John Lennon.

Lennon, who co-founded the English rock band The Beatles, led a complicated life filled with drugs and women and ended up dying by the bullet.