Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A woman sits in her large makeshift restaurant that doubles as a cooking and eating place, wailing uncontrollably on seeing a photo of her husband among those of murder suspects published in newspapers.
Ahmed Naima Amin, 37, is a member of the Somali community living in Soroti.

Her husband, Abdullahi Omar Guleed a.k Mutuyangu, 28, was charged in connection with the twin bombs that were detonated in Kampala on July 11.

Guleed is one of over 15 Somali nationals arrested over the incident in Soroti last month.
The mother of five, three boys and two girls, is still nursing a wound she sustained in a recent caesarian operation at the birth of her new baby.

Guleed, a resident of Pioneer Ward, Northern Division in Soroti town, was a bus conductor with Gateway Bus Company.

His wife and friends say he is a polite and jolly man, who calls everybody ‘my man’ thus the nick name mutuyangu.

“We used to depend on my husband. I appeal to the Government to take me and my children back to our village in Somalia,” said Naima as tears rolled down her cheeks.

She said her husband used to earn sh17,000 every day, adding that it was the money he used to feed them and provide shelter.

“Now the landlord is threatening to throw me out of the house. Our rent has accumulated to sh70,000,” Naima said.

Juma Ali, Guleed’s employee, said Guleed was a trusted man. “He would starve with money in his hands.”
Salome Adie, a restaurant operator at the Soroti Bus Park said Guleed liked cracking jokes with people.
“When he comes to the restaurant without money, he says ‘you mutuyangu, I don’t have money today but I cannot die because of hunger when you are here, give me food.’”
“He used to honour his debts. Since we saw him in 2006, we have had no problem with him,” she added.
Ali added that Guleed would give a receipt to even a passenger who paid sh500, adding that this was not common with bus conductors.
“Our prayer is that justice takes its course. We are optimistic that God will one day hear our prayers and they will release him,” Ali added. 

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Source:- Newvision.

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