According to a United Nations report that was released in June last
year, Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) under the leadership of General Julius Waweru
Karangi is smuggling charcoal and sugar through the port of Kismayo after they
drove out Al Shabaab.
The UN report which attracted local
and international condemnation said Karangi and his “boys” were involved in
illegal importation of charcoal and sugar through Kismayo that was later
sneaked to Kenya through Garissa and Mandera border points.
Although the Jubilee Government
under the leadership of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy, William Ruto,
dismissed these reports, details have emerged showing Karangi and other senior KDF
officials have been selling millions of bags of charcoal thorugh Kismaiyo.
The first one to reveal this was
controversial city lawyer, Ahmednasir Abdullahi, who said Karangi and his
coterie have been operating illegal charcoal and sugar trade in Kismayo and
that is why Al Shabaab are angry.
He said Karangi and some rogue Kenya Revenue
Authority (KRA) officials are operating a multi-billion sugar and charcoal
trade that has claimed lives of 5 KRA junior officers who have tried to expose
what goes on along the Kenya/ Somalia border.
Ahmednasir, who is the owner and
founder of Nairobi Law Monthly, said
Al Shabaab are killing Kenyans because of what Karangi and his cronies have
been doing in the Kismayo port.
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