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UN team to visit Nigeria over intercepted arms

Tuesday, 07 December 2010 00:21

arm_shipment_2By JollofNesws Staff Writer
A six-man United Nations (UN) delegation is scheduled to arrive in Nigeria to inspect Gambia-bound cache of weapons intercepted in a Lagos port last month.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) today cited an unnamed source in a report that the UN team would also meet with top government officials to deliberate on the thorny issue that is sending shock waves in multiple capitals in the sub region.arm_shipment_2
Nigeria, which is at loggerheads with a largely mute Iran, the source of the said weapons, has said that investigations on the illegal shipment were still ongoing. Meanwhile Senegal, according to various reports lately, is growing restless over the prospect of a Gambia/MFDC involvement in the issue. The Senegalese government has been linked to recent reports urging an accelerated action by the UN over Nigeria’s request for investigation on the weapons.
The weapons, disguised as ``building materials,” include assorted calibres of mortars and rocket launchers, as well as shells for a 23 mm anti-aircraft gun. The Senegalese fear that if reports linking Yahya Jammeh and the MFCD were true, it could mean bad for their effort against its Southern rebels.
So far four people, including one Iranian, have since been in custody in Nigeria.

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+1 #7 2010-12-11 09:47
If the Gambia is spending this amount of money for weapons, and people do not have services and programs to improve their well-fair, What is the Government good for. As a drug dealer i would not risk sending a transit of 1billion dollars worth of drugs, without having any connections within the Government. The Gambia Government knows something about the said drugs and keeping silent, and these are top members, because in African politics only the top members do what they want and dictate as they wish. At times one feels as if there is no need to be educated. As a scientist i returned to the Gambia to implement an idea, which have been practice in other areas of Africa, but the response from the Government was that it does not apply to the Gambian. There are Gambians with PHDs in economics, science, law and so, but it feels as if their education worth's nothing, because they are been dictated in their own field about what to do. And thus their ideas never flourish.
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+1 #6 2010-12-10 17:31
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE STACH OF 1 BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF COCAINE, THAT WAS FOUND IN THE GAMBIA.??... BET PLANS ARE NOW AFOOT TO REPACKAGE IT AND SELL IT OVERSEAS, BY THE GREEDY BASTARD.!!. THE UN SHOULD DO ALL IT COULD TO INTERCEPT AND DESTROY IT.!!
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+2 #5 Kafuta 2010-12-07 23:18
Well, Yankuba,
that Yahya Jammeh is a master of implicating the innocent is a well noted fact everywhere in the world. THis is even very clear in the case of Baba K Job in his incaceration for monetary offences.
However, you can never convince Gambians that Baba Job was not involved in arms dealing. So, let's hope Jammeh doesn't murder him so he can answer in court and clear himself. Am sorry, but the evidences are just too overwhelming.
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+1 #4 2010-12-07 13:27
Baba .K. Jobe was not dealing with arms, the truth will soon come out who were behind all that in the West African Region. The big Russian Fish is now under United State’s custody, let’s wait and see what he will tell the court hearing. Baba Jobe was a gentle man, even though he has made some mistakes. Yaya Jammeh always accuses people, when he wants to get ride of them.
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+1 #3 2010-12-07 12:53
Well done Jollofnews. Like I said, if we want see the back of Yahya Jammeh NOW and end this madness in our beloved country,I will assure you that this arm smuggling is the answer to that.THIS IS IT.This arm consignment is the only event that has made Yahya Jammeh so nervous in his entire years, to the point that he sacrifices £1.2 billion investment to Gambia. The disclosure of the destination will be far more damaging than his human rights abuses and I have no doubt it can lead to his downfall. But only if we focus on it. He will do everything in his disposal to avoid that at home,coaxing with Senegal,and sacrificing animals. So let all Gambian media not fall into this spell as well as Gambians wishing for Change. No one in Gambia, be it Darboe and co, press, or civil servant dare pursue it which is a shame for their goal. Forget elections or coups, or vulture strategy and John Aycoth. This is the moment trust me. He is shaking daily wishing it to be bygone and normally to come to him
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+2 #2 2010-12-07 11:07
The UN should stand up against the Gambia leader for the importing of weapons from Iran. We Gambian know that the only person respondsible is Yaya. He is a Dictator who wants to stay in power by the backing of guns. Yaya is a shame to Gambia with all his crazy sayings about the western world.
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+2 #1 2010-12-07 09:40
Baba Jobe's activities attracted United Nations interest, the deaths of a large number of West African nationals led to a UN investigation, and now once again Gambia's name is being referred to the UN for investigation.

Gambia, we were once known as a peaceful little tourist paradise. I remember a time when Gambians could travel without the need for a visa to many western countries when other African countries did not have that privilege. How did we allow this uneducated joker to turn us into a pariah nation?
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