They are implicated with taking young women to Somalia.
Shamsa Shariff Mohamed and Saada Bilal were arrested early this month following investigations on the network of recruiters who have been luring young Kenyan women to marry al Shabaab fighters in Somalia.
Shamsa was arrested in Hargadera Refugee Camp where she had fraudulently obtained refugee documents to help her travel to Nairobi while Saada Bilal was nabbed in Nairobi.
“While the offer by the government to provide amnesty not only for the fighters but their families has been taken by many, the decision of these women to
work against the authorities indicates their support towards an organisation whose aim is to kill innocent Kenyans,” the intelligence report on their arrest says.
They are linked to the three young women Ummukhayr Sadri Abdullah, Maryam Said Aboud and Khadija Abubakar Abdulkadir who were arrested early this
year in near the Mandera border as they attempted to cross over into Somalia to join al Shabaab.
Saada is the mother of Abdalla Bin Abdalla, an al Shabaab fighter and a member of the Jesh Ayman group that operates in Boni Forest bordering Kenya and Somalia but plan attacks against Kenya.
Saada and Abdalla lived in Majengo Highrise, Nairobi where the latter went to school in Shauri Moyo.
Intelligence reports have linked Abdalla to the late Hassan Omondi Owiti alias Budalangi and Al-Shabaab leader Ahmed Imani.
Owiti was a trained al Shabaab operative who participated in various attacks in Nairobi in 2012 but he was killed in May 2013 during a gun-fight with police in his Githurai house.
Hassan and Abdalla were allegedly radicalised by darsas at Pumwani Riyadha Mosque that is associated Ahmed Imani.
Saada is said to have conspired with her al Shabaab trainer son to smuggle his wife back into Kenya for an unspecified mission.
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