Former Kenyan Presidential Candidate Mohammed Abduba Dida is said to be arrested and detained in the United States of America (US) for sometime now.
According to reports, Abduba Dida who ran for Kenyan Presidential race was arrested in the US and is currently serving a 7 year sentence in a US jail charged under two separate counts.
Reports indicate that Dida was convicted in the first charge, classified as stalking and transmitting threats in the United States, earned him a 2-year prison sentence.
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Additionally, the second charge against Abduba Dida was charged for aggravated stalking and violating a restraining order, resulted in a 5-year sentence totalling the sentence to seven years in US jail.
Further reports indicate that the former kenyan presidential candidate was arrested and charged back in 2022 and the information has been under wraps for sometime now before it erupted.
Dida has already served two years in prison and is expected to be released in 2029 after serving the seven year sentence. It’s believed that he is held at the Illinois prison for his sentence.
This comes after Dida alleged that the prison he is currently held in is not providing religiously adequate opportunities to pray or to observe other tenants of his religion and thus placed a civil rights action.
“Mohamed Abduba Dida, an inmate of the Illinois Department of Corrections currently detained at Big Muddy River Correctional Center brings this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. for alleged deprivations of his constitutional rights.”
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According to court documents, Dida alleged that he was allowed to pray only once every Friday in a church and was later transferred to solitary confinement under harsh conditions.