By Chrysanthus Ikeh
Kenya Police officers have placed a bounty on Somali al Shabaab terrorist leader, Mohamed Mohamud believed to have masterminded the murder of 147 students of Garissa University College on Thursday, April 2, 2015.
A cash reward of KSHS 20m equivalent of around £145k is available for anyone who can provide useful information that will lead to the arrest of Mohamed. Police officials in the East African country believe the campus attack that has thrown the country into mourning is not the first by the wanted terrorist, he is recorded to have claimed responsibility for the bombing of the American embassy in 1998.
Likewise, he has been linked to a number of previous attacks while also thought to have been the key figure in the Westgate Shopping Mall attack in Nairobi where 67 shoppers were killed in 2013. Mohamed, a Kenyan of Somali heritage, is reported to have 3 wives and is thought to be in his mid-40s.
He studied engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi in the early 1990s before working for a Saudi-based charity, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, which the US linked to Al Qaeda between 1993 and 1995, according to reports.