The company owning the ship detained in Mombasa Port by Kenya Security agents now says that the weapons recovered from the vessel belong to the United Nations.
In a statement sent to news rooms, Hoegh Autoliners distanced itself from the ammunition found in the ship saying that the guns and powder retrieved from the UN Vehicles, were to be used for a UN peace keeping mission.
According to the Port's head of security Mohamed Morowa, assortment of weapons were not declared in the manifest among the hardware that was being transported.
The transport company whose vessel was ferrying military trucks from India, also said that the organisation had a policy of not transporting weapons adding that they were not informed that fire arms were part of the cargo.
In the statement the company expressed fears that Kenya would sink its vessel since the country had done the same for ships found carrying illegal substances.
It is reported that 34 American rifles were discovered packed in trucks within the vessel, by Kenya's security forces who stormed the vehicle carrier last Thursday upon intelligence that it was carrying suspicious cargo.
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Port workers including their bosses were locked out of the premises as they turned up for night shift.
The government is yet to reveal what was contained in the white susbstance taken to the laboratory for analysis.
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