Kenya’s highest-ranking diplomat after Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma, PS Macharia Kamau has revealed how the UN has been funding terrorist to grant safe passage of food and other supplies in war-torn regions controlled by the deadly militia group.
“The contradictory and unconscionable behaviour of UN organisations financing terror groups through payment of bribes to terror organisations to allow passage of aid must be stopped. UN must lead by good example,” Amb Kamau said on Sunday.
The U.N. Security Council Thursday unanimously passed the first-ever resolution ordering members to enforce laws against terror financing.
Out of the total Sh120 billion recieved as aid in Somalia, the amounts earned by the terrorists disguised as funding for “capacity building” would be Sh12 billion a 10% figure.
Kamau has accused against the UN cannot be taken lightly especially considering that the Kenyan military has previously been implicated in supporting illegal trade in Somalia from where the militants fed off.
U.N. counterterrorism chief Vladimir Voronkov said the resolution comes at a “critical time,” saying terrorists have gotten their hands on cash through both illegal and legal channels, including drug trafficking, the construction trade and used car sales.
The U.N. resolution would also urge members to stop paying ransom to kidnappers, saying such payments have become a major source of financing for Islamic State and others.
“It is unacceptable UN sets aside 10 per cent of its aid money to pay terror group for passage of its humanitarian assistance without guarantees that aid will get to recipients. We just list extortionist Al Shabaab on UNSC 1267,” the PS wrote in his Twitter account.