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<\/div>Maur Abdalla Bwanamaka appeared before\u00a0Mombasa Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku,\u00a0February 2, 2022.<\/strong> [Kelvin Karani, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n A shipping agent charged alongside nine other people with trafficking drugs worth Sh1.3 billion has told a court that it was his kindness to help the foreigners that landed him in trouble.\n<\/p>\n Maur Abdalla Bwanamaka who appeared before\u00a0Mombasa Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku on Wednesday denied ever communicating with his co-accused, Pakistanis and Iranians. <\/p>\n Bwanamaka said he tried to help them hoping to get a job as an agent on the ferry they were using,\u00a0MV Bushehr Amin\u00a0Darya, which was blown up in the deep seas in the Indian Ocean in 2014.\n<\/p>\n He said he learnt of the vessel from one of the accused persons, one Captain Osman.<\/p>\n “Captain Osman called and told me that he had been informed of a vessel at the port by Captain Abdille. He said he had not been able to get his documents on time and asked if I could go there and offer my services as an agent,” Bwanamaka told the court.\n<\/p>\n He said that when he arrived at Berth Eight, he found the area, including the ship, sealed off.\n<\/p>\n Mwanamaka said he also found Mr Hamisi Masa, the\u00a0head of Anti-Narcotics Police Unit, at the scene and gave him his business card.\u00a0 <\/p>\n The suspect had chatted with Masa for a moment and even asked if he could offer his services as a shipping agent.\n<\/p>\n Masa said he could not allow him to offer his services to the ship but asked him to talk to the ship’s captain.\n<\/p>\n I soon found myself not only helping the crew of the seized vessel but also helping the police too in one way or the other, he told the court.\n<\/p>\n I helped the crew to put some of the documents they had in order, buying them food as requested by the police and also sourcing for a doctor to check on them after an officer named Mutiso told me one of the crew members was sick, Bwanamaka said.\n<\/p>\n During the investigations, the suspect said, he helped the police where he could. However, he did not understand what the problem was. <\/p>\n Mwanamaka told the court that he informed the ship\u2019s captain, Yausuf Yaqoob, that the police could be investigating a serious crime of either drugs or arms following the presence of Kenya Navy forces.\n<\/p>\n “That is how I came to interact with the other foreigners who have also been accused in this case. I did not know them prior. I had not even met them before they docked in Mombasa. I was trying to help them hoping to get a job. But here I am in court for drug trafficking,\u201d Bwanamaka said.\n<\/p>\n \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maur Abdalla Bwanamaka appeared before\u00a0Mombasa Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku,\u00a0February 2, 2022. [Kelvin Karani, Standard] A shipping agent charged alongside nine other people with trafficking drugs worth Sh1.3 billion has told a court that it was his kindness to help the foreigners that landed him in trouble. Maur Abdalla Bwanamaka who appeared before\u00a0Mombasa Chief Magistrate Martha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}