“We are not going to allow outside forces to incite Kenyans to create religious war,” Odinga said, after meeting with religious leaders from the majority-Muslim region, which also has a significant Christian population.
Foreign embassies – including those of Australia, Britain, France and the United States – have issued travel warnings for Mombasa, where several large tourist resorts are based.
Rogo was killed Monday in Mombasa when unidentified gunmen opened fire on his vehicle as he was driving with his wife and children, leaving it riddled with bullets.
Images released by his supporters showed his bloody corpse slumped behind the wheel. His wife and children reportedly survived the attack.
Human Rights Watch has called for a probe into the killing, noting it “follows the abductions and deaths earlier this year of several other people charged with recruitment and other offences related to the Shabaab.”
Rogo’s supporters accused the security forces of murdering him, calling his death an “extra-judicial killing”. The police reject the claim and have appealed for help in hunting down those responsible.
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