New York, USA, March 13, 2010 (SL Times) – A Security Council report has shown that Sheikh Sharif and other members of his government had taken part in a huge scheme that diverted food aid from starving Somalis and defrauded the United Nations.
One of the ways in which Sheikh Sharif participated in this scheme was that he wrote a letter to the UN in which he vouched for the integrity of a crooked businessman called Abdulkadir M. Nur (Eno). According to the New York Times (March 9, 2010): ““In September, Somalia’s president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, wrote a letter to Secretary General Ban, defending Mr. Nur as a “very conscientious, diligent and hard-working person” and saying that if it were not for the contractors, “many Somalis would have perished.”






























 

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