A Kenyan court has sentenced a radical Muslim school teacher to 20 years imprisonment after he told pupils that Christians should be killed, the BBC reported .
Salim Mohamed Wabwire, a convert from Christianity, was a primary school teacher and imam at the Jihad mosque, north of the coastal city of Mombasa.
Children testified that Wabwire taught them that Christians should be killed.
Kenyan news outlet Standard Digital reported in October that children aged between six and 13 testified against Wabwire, telling the court that the radical preacher told them that members of other religions, including Christians, were deserving of death. “He was teaching us about other religions and told us other religions are kafir (infidel) and we should slaughter them,” a six-year-old child who converted to Islam from Christianity told the court on October 13, 2015, according to Standard Digital. Parents of the children also said that Wabwire secretly converted their children to Islam and extremist ideology.
Contrary to earlier reports, the court in Mombasa city acquitted him of being a member of militant Islamist group al-Shabab, and recruiting for it.
The group, which is linked to al-Qaeda, has increasingly targeted Kenya.
It killed 148 people in an assault on Garissa University College in north-eastern Kenya in April.
While some of the children testified against him, one tried to cover up for him, the court said.