Kenya detains female Daesh terror suspect for 10 days

By Magdalene Mukami

NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) - A Kenyan terror suspect arrested this week on suspicion of supplying information to Daesh was remanded Thursday to give police more time to build their case.

Nuseiba Mohammed Haji Osman, alias Ummu Fidaa, a medical intern, was arrested Wednesday at the Milimani Law courts in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, and on Thursday the same court remanded her for 10 days.

Kenya’s Anti-Terror Police Uniut (ATPU) told the court that Nuseiba should not be released on bond as they are still trying to decode 133 audio files in Somali and Arabic that they found on an SD card on her person at the time of her arrest.

According to Kenya’s capitalfm website, the court also heard from the prosecution that Nuseiba has other associates who are still at large and has yet to reveal other suspects, and so her release would jeopardize their arrest and the ongoing investigations.

This May she had been accused, with her husband, of trying to carry out an anthrax attack in Kenya and creating a Daesh cell in the East African country.

She was out on 5 million Kenyan shillings bail ($50,000) from that charge when she was arrested Wednesday.