United Nations investigators have accused an advisor to Somalia’s president of involvement in the unauthorized diversion of Somali government weapons to Islamist militants with ties to al Qaeda, according to a confidential new report seen by Reuters.
The accusation by the Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group, an eight-member panel of independent experts that oversees compliance with UN sanctions on the two countries, was included in the group’s 482-page annual report to the UN Security Council’s Somalia-Eritrea sanctions committee.
The charge concerns Musa Haji Mohamed Ganjab, a prominent Somali businessman.
In an email to Reuters, Ganjab denied the monitors’ allegation, saying it was an attempt to undermine the Somali government and part of a campaign by the panel’s coordinator, Jarat Chopra, to destabilize Somalia.
“I categorically deny this allegation in the strongest possible terms,” he said in an email to Reuters. “I have at no time, and in no capacity, ever been involved in any way in the trafficking of arms to anyone.
“I must conclude that this false claim arises from Mr. Chopra’s political effort to undermine the Somali government and anyone, like myself, who assisted in repudiating Mr. Chopra’s reckless reporting in 2013,” he said.
Chopra did not respond immediately to a request for comment. In the past he has responded to similar accusations by saying that he stood by the monitoring group’s findings.
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I am not suprised at this findings, bcos since all MUSLIMS believed JIHAD, they all SUPPORT these radical GROUPS, physically or spiritually.
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