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Nigerian lawyer confirms intercepted weapons were for Gambia

Wednesday, 16 February 2011 21:05

iranianJollofNews - As President Yahya Jammeh’s government continues to remain tightlipped over recent revelations linking him to illegal weapons shipment, the lawyer representing the Iranian national charged with illegally importing them has confirmed that the weapons were indeed for Gambia.iranian
Yahya Jammeh had earlier denied involvement. But his government is yet to come up with a statement since the last pronouncement by the Iranian ambassador in Nigeria, last week, who confirmed that the weapons were in fact for Gambia.
And now, the lawyer representing the only Iranian man charged on the matter has added his voice to this. Chris Uche’s statement outside a court in Nigeria was aimed at defending his argument that the shipment of Iranian weapons seized in Nigeria didn’t breach any law, according to Bloomberg.
“The arms were passing through Nigeria to Gambia,” Chris Uche told reporters outside the court in Lagos, the commercial capital, where the trial resumed today.
iranian2“Under international maritime law you are allowed to tranship,” he said.
The shipment of rockets, grenades and mortars intercepted in October “was a normal business transaction between two sovereign countries” and the third to have passed through Nigeria to Gambia, he said.
Azimi Aghajani, an Iranian national, and Nigerian Aliyu Jega are facing trial for illegally shipping the weapons into Nigeria.
The French shipping company CMA CGM SA said on Oct. 30 that an Iranian company used one of its vessels to illegally transport the arms to Lagos after labeling them as “packages of glass wool and pallets of stone.”
Written by Augustin Jatta

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+1 #8 2011-02-18 13:27
forster care should be foster care, forgive the error.It is sickening ssometimes to think that we (gambians)are fools and the dictator ca get away with anything.
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+3 #7 2011-02-18 13:03
Badara and Modou I applaud your brilliant comments. You see, Gambians have been turned into beggars and praise singers by a disgraceful illitrate who came to power with a salary of less than D2,000.00 sixteen years ago, and now claiming to be richer than the nation. Dishing out millions of dalasi to insignificant causes when the majority of the masses can not afford a day's meal is unconscionable. There is another increases in fuel prices which the authorities have refused to make public. This will impact the already rising prices on commodities. A High School graduate calling himself professor and doctor, will always think that state resources are his personal properties and every body should be grateful to him for being the provider of all the things we need forgetting that he was in forster care when our fathers and mothers were provding for us. Thats why some of us will never succumbed to his dictatorial abuses. We shall overcome.
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+1 #6 2011-02-17 18:07
Should read ..in order to have a democratic and freedom of speech in that beautiful country.

Modou, I cannot understand our people. It not normal to let one man leading you to your death and still smiling and behave as normal. This man is taking Gambians and its territory to his imaginary wicked visions yet they are singing and or in total mute. Everyone who is familiar with Gambia will always ask me WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR PEOPLE? DO YOU HAVE OPPOSITIONS? Now he almost led them to war. Thank god Senegal is a peace loving nation. Imagine if Wade was Yoweri Kaguta Museveni or Paul Kagame of Rwanda and the constituencies for Gambians. This man made Gambians hate each other and now want us to hate our only sister nation Senegal. How long will we stand beside and look and assume Senegal to behave like us while their country is destabilise by this ungrateful man whose upbringing in Gambia is a result of our hospitality he now use against Gambia.
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+3 #5 2011-02-17 16:36
Badara you are right we have weak and scare oppositions in the Gambia. I dont know why people even vote for them, why waste your time. They are scared of this evil Yahya Jammeh. The nationalAssembl y should have brought this issue in one of their sessions and try to find out why Jammeh ordered these weapons without consulting anyone in the Gambia. and also why is it taking so long to prosecute the perpetrators in the drug saga, because the drugs are Jammeh's. If the members of National assembly are stupid Gambians are watching.
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+2 #4 2011-02-17 14:28
2-This culture of absolute silence by the oppositions has fuelled to Gambians being the most docile Africans in knowing or understanding the activities of their government. One example is that, despite the serious nature of these arms, no Gambian be it government supporters or democratic movements can exactly say why yahya jammeh broke relations with Iran or where about is the Lebanese Rambo. The impact of such actions on people you preside as a country will have the same effect as father will lie and exclude house hold decisions from your children and wife or relatives. It a total disrespect, disregard and no consideration of your people or household. Such a culture will never create a better society or a happy society. As a result of this culture, many have become so docile and blind that, they will turn their frustration on Senegal as if they are the arm smuggler to destabilise Gambia. Gambia is a sad country and in a very dangerous path with docile population.
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+4 #3 2011-02-17 14:27
1-I guessed the cost of that container will be about $50million if I remember I read that in an online paper. However, the main important thing is what he has done to the other two similar shipments.. I have a very strong feeling that he was smuggling it for other conflicts too in the region making a Gambia the depot of these weapons. Maybe Gbagbo since these weapons are too much for MFDC. I also understand that Gambian oppositions are oppressed severely. This arms shipment is a gigantic danger and insecurity which can lead to war with countries, and for them to be totally silence like the wind is something I cannot understand. I find that very irresponsible and one of the major factors why Gambians is rule in such a dictatorial way for the last 16 years. It has contributed to the status quo and has distract help and concerns from the overseas to come to the assistant of Gambian in order to have a democratic and freedom of speech in that in beautiful.
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+5 #2 2011-02-17 01:03
Witch Hunter,

To answer your question directly, the dealer is none other than Viktor Anatolyevich Bout Jammeh, the sole investor in Kanilai Farms Co. Ltd
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+5 #1 2011-02-16 23:28
I am left wondering how much a whole container full of arms costs these days? And thirteen of them? If this is third shipment then we have a really big time arms dealer in Gambia. I just wonder who the clients are?
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