A court in Nairobi on Thursday, August 29, 2019, set free two suspects accused of blowing up two Githurai buses on May 4, 2014
The two, Worqu Dejene Sar and his father, Sar Guracha Haro had been slapped with six charges of terror-related activities.
When making the ruling, Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi stated that the police failed to link the duo to the terror acts.
The court still found Haro guilty of threatening a witness who was testifying against his son.
This twin blasts killed three people and injured 67 others.
One of the buses had left Nairobi CBD, travelling to Githurai 45, while the other was heading towards Mwiki in Kasarani.
According to the police, the explosions were coordinated as they happened almost simultaneously. Two men died in one bus while one woman died in the other.
The police told the court that some improvised explosive devices, which had been planted in the buses, exploded at around 5pm near Homeland area, while the other one went off at Roysambu underpass, both located along Thika Superhighway.
A week later Dejene was arrested after he allegedly confessed to planting the explosive devices in the buses, but the court rejected the confession as evidence.
His father was later arrested and accused of receiving money from Al Shabaab after the incident, but the court ruled that the money had no connection to the terror group.
The court also ruled that there was no evidence that Dejene had traveled to Somalia and trained with Al Shabaab.
