Kenyan authorities have deported Jamaican Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal to Tanzania after he was arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit in the coastal city of Mombasa last week.
Sources told APA on Tuesday that the controversial Sheikh was deported on Monday night to Tanzania by road after international bound planes declined to take him aboard.
Al-Faisal was deported from Britain after serving a five-year jail sentence on terror-related charges.
Kenya’s minister for immigration, Otieno Kajwang’ signed the deportation letter on Sunday.
The cleric is reportedly to have entered Kenya through the Lunga Lunga border point from Tanzania on December 24.
The cleric has previously been denied entry into Kenya. Before his arrival in Kenya, he had traveled to Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland, Malawi, and Tanzania.
Hundreds of Muslims in Mombasa took to the streets last week demonstrating against the move by the government to deport the cleric.
However, the immigration minister dismissed allegations by the Muslim Human Rights Forum that Muslim clerics were being targeted.
He said he had signed many work permits for Muslim clerics from Sudan and Libya who are in the country.
The cleric’s passport shows he tried to enter the country previously but was denied entry.
Al-Faisal was deported from Britain in 2007 where he had lived for 20 years for allegedly preaching “hatred against Jews, Hindus and Westerners”. He had been jailed in 2003 for the offense.
Source African Press Agency
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