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How did terror suspect ‘vanish’ from police cell?

Three months after Kenya ended up with and was unable to deport radical Jamaican preacher Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal we are in a spot again. Last week, an international terror suspect tried to enter Kenya by road through Busia from Uganda.

Though Immigration officials handed him to the police, the man who passed himself on as Hussein Hashi Farah ‘mysteriously’ vanished. Australia, which links him to terror acts on its soil, has written to Immigration Department demanding to know how he managed to slip away.

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