Kenya: Balala Accuses UN of Conspiracy, Vows to Continue Giving to Islam

1 August 2011

Tourism minister Najib Balala has accused the UN of using diversionary tactics to cover its failure to deal with the humanitarian crisis in Somalia and Kenya, and to fight piracy.

Balala was mentioned in the UN Monitoring Group report on Somalia and Eritrea as having unwittingly funded the al-Shabaab through a donation to reconstruct the Pumwani Riyadha Mosque in Nairobi's Majengo area. The mosque is the oldest in Nairobi.

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