Abdi Rashid Khalif is suspected to have authored and posted a message on a WhatsApp group indicating there was a terror attack at JKIA on November 21, 2016. He is to be charged together with other KU students in the WhatsApp group that generated the message. MESSAGE CAUSED PANICMr Khalif is accused of posting the message in the group, called Digital Teachers, whose members are second-year education students at KU. However, Mr Khalif denied authoring the message but named one Mercy from the student group as the person behind the message. Mandera Resident Magistrate Dancun Mtai allowed the ATPU to hold the suspect for two days pending his transfer to Nairobi.

Source: Daily Nation November 23, 2016 13:18 UTC