Nairobi, March 9 -- Two terrorists convicted this week for plotting attacks in Nairobi had links to one of the gunmen who raided DusitD2 hotel complex in 2019, killing 21 people, the Nation can reveal.

Abdimajit Hassan Adan and Mohammed Osman Nane, who were this week jailed for 25 years for plotting attacks on key installations in Nairobi, were in contact with Omar Abdi Siyat aka Samatra prior to their arrest in 2018.

The two will however serve 19 years in Kamiti Maximum Prison after six years were commuted. They were imprisoned alongside Lydia Nyawira, who was handed a three-year jail term for forging an Identification Card.

Abdimajit and Nane were arrested in 2018 in Isiolo with explosives and AK 47 rifles after police intercepted th...