Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi has pleaded with the government to deal mercilessly with errant preachers and pastors and shut down their churches.
According to the Senior Counsel, the government should use the same level of force as it did in the past to suppress extreme Islamic teachings promoted by Muslim clerics which influenced particularly the youth into terrorism.
Despite the fact that State agencies have never been implicated by the courts, some clerics, such as Kisauni Imam Aboud Rogo, were killed for allegedly radicalizing young people into terrorism.
Sheikh Bilal Philips, a muslim cleric Jamaican, was deported shortly after arriving at the JKIA from Qatar in February 2012. sheikh had been banned from preaching in most European countries over his teachings that were seen as a threat to security.
Rogo was in 2012 killed in a drive-by shooting in Mombasa. Authorities believed he was aiding al-Shabab activities there.
In 2015, police also shut down four mosques in Mombasa for allegedly being linked to extremists. They were marked as crime scenes.
Ahmednasir’s remarks come at a time the Communications Authority of Kenya suspended TV stations owned by Pastor Ezekiel Odero and Pastor Paul Mackenzie.
Mackenzie is allegedly accused of convincing members of his Good News International Church to fast till death in order to enter heaven. Detectives have so far retrieved 108 bodies from Shakahola Forest small mass graves.
Ezekiel and Mackenzie are currently in police custody in relation to deaths.
Kenya Red Cross has confirmed to have recorded 410 missing persons at the tracing centre set up at the Malindi Subcounty Hospital, 227 among them being children under 18 years.