Muslim Cleric Aboud Rogo shot dead Radical Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo shot dead in Mombasa. (Photo:File/Standard)
By Willis Oketch
Controversial Islamic preacher Sheikh Aboud Rogo, who was shot dead in Mombasa on Monday has been in police custody several times over terrorism.
Famous for his provocative sermons against the West and Kenyan authorities, the native of Likoni was brought up in the Coastal city and had the dubious distinction of being the latest Kenyan to be sanctioned by the US for supporting global terrorism.
He has a home in Kanamai in Kilifi where his wife Haniya Said Sagaar runs a school. It is on this farm that Sheikh Rogo was arrested in February allegedly with an AK 47 rifle, two hand grenades, two pistols, 102 detonators and 113 bullets which police allege he was planning to use to blow up churches in Mombasa, Nyali Bridge and Likoni Ferry in an orgy of violence.
He was prominent, often moving around Coast province to preach against Western influence and exhorting youth to fight jihad (holy war).
Sheikh Rogo was fluent in Kiswahili, English and Arabic and prosecutors claim he supported the Somalia-based Al Shabaab movement.
Sheikh Rogo’s secular education and working experience is not clear although he is a known itinerant priest in Likoni, Kisauni, Changamwe where he has expressed radical views on most issues. Read More