Majyambere Denies Al-Shabaab Links

The Djibouti Consul to Uganda, Mr. Mohamed Silas Majyambere, a businessman of Rwandan birth has reacted on the story that we recently published to the effect that he was being probed on links to the Al-Shabaab in Somalia.

In an email to 256news.com, the lawyers of the powerful Majyambere’s advocates wrote:

We are writing the present email on behalf of Mr. Majyambere who has been cited in the news article
attached and which can be consulted on www.256news.com.
To Mr. Majyambere’s great surprise and astonishment, he reads his name is linked to Al-Shabaab according to a UN Probe. You can understand that this is shocking news for him and for all of us.

The United Nations have been supporting with all means the Somalia Transitional Federal Government and working towards peace and stability in Somalia; Mr. Majyambere, as the Government and people of the Republic of Djibouti, has helped them according to his means among others in Djibouti where they stayed at Imperial Resort & Red Sea
Hotel where they got full support and help from the hotel staff.

His help was well appreciated during the visit of His Excellency Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to the Republic of Burundi where he personally thanked Mr. Majyambere by paying him a personal visit at his Residence in Bujumbura.

In the given circumstances, it is impossible that Mr. Majyambere might have a link whatsoever with Al-Shabaab which stands against all of Mr. Majyambere’s convictions, namely peace and stability in Somalia.

Furthermore Mr. Majyambere has no offices in Nairobi, Mombassa. Also he has no sister-in-law based in the Horn of Africa.

Indeed the Rwandan newspaper Rwanda Rushya published articles on Mr. Bertin Makuza (Rwanda Foam) and Mr. Vedaste Rubangura based on court information respectively
RCA 7886/KIG - 8559/KIG and N°R.Com A0060/08/HCC. The journalist of Rwanda Rushya is Mr. Jean-Gualbert Burasa based in Kigali (Rwanda). It is true that Mr. Majyambere has a private and commercial dispute with Mr. Bertin Makuza (Rwanda Foam) and Mr. Vedaste Rubangura but this should not be the basis of diffusing and circulating baseless
and dangerous information which tarnish the image of the UN and Mr. Majyambere, compromises the reputation of the UN and Mr. Majyambere but which also is a threat to the security, physical integrity and interests of Mr. Majyambere.

On the basis of the above, we hereby would like to request you to let us know whether or not Mr. Majyambere is subject to investigations by the UN Somalia Monitoring Group linking him to Al-Shabaab. Could you please clarify your position as this article is clearly defamatory,
libelous and slanderous for the UN and Mr. Majyambere?

We are looking forward to your response in order to have the opportunity to react accordingly.

Yours sincerely,

On behalf of Mr. Majyambere
MKONO & CO. in association with Denton Wilde Sapte

256news.com appreciates the reaction by Mr. Majyambere and his much-needed input in the Somalia situation.