20110409 – Hundreds of Muslim women from Mombasa, Kwale and Kilifi counties took to the streets to condemn the alleged recruitment of youths by al-Shabaab militants.

The placard-waving protesters converged at the Makadara grounds in Mombasa before marching along the town’s streets.

The Muslim women called upon the government to take action against those behind the ferrying their youth to the war-torn country to join the illegal group.

Ms Farida Rashid of Mombasa Muslim Women Alliance said that those youths who have been rescued from the secret recruitment have been brainwashed by “immoral” messages delivered by some Muslim preachers.

The demonstrators presented a memorandum to Mombasa District Commissioner Abdi Hassan outside his office. They asked him to forward their message to the Internal Security minister Prof George Saitoti for immediate action.