The Kenya Police are currently holding a Parliamentary staff member after he was named in an intelligence report claiming that he planned to facilitate attacks on the National Assembly.

The suspect, Ali Abdulmajid, is the vice-chairperson of the management committee of the Pumwani Riyadh mosque that has in the past been accused of financing terror activities.

Abdulmajid who has served as the vice-chairman of the mosque since 2009 was arrested at midnight on Sunday and booked at Kilimani Police Station. His family claim the officers from CID and Anti-Terror Unit had said they wanted to clarify with him a number of issues.

He was picked up by officers from Central police station and was being grilled on Monday.

“The officers want to confirm a number of issues. We don’t want to take chances,”

said a senior officer at the Central police station, who asked not to be named.

Abdulmajid who has worked with Parliament for nearly ten years was previously named in the 2011 UN Monitoring Group on Eritrea and Somalia but has since been linked to terror activities.

He subsequently wrote to the police chief asking him to investigate the UN Monitoring Report so that his name could be cleared as he denied the allegations.

“We have opened our doors to the police to come and investigate the mosque or any of our members. We have nothing to hide and we don’t support terrorists or terror activities,”

an official of the mosque who requested not to be named said. His arrest came after police revealed Al-Shabaab terrorists’ plan to plant bombs in Parliament Buildings as part of high scale attacks.

“The terror group plans to use an operative (Abdulmajid) who is affiliated to the popular Pumwani Riyadh Mosque who is also a staff member at the Senate to actualise the attack.”

The revelations were made in a letter by Central OCPD Paul Wanjama addressed to Parliament police station OCS Mr Samson Chelugo.

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