Norwegian ship owner blames UN over weapons in vessel detained at Kenya port

The owner of the Norwegian ship detained at Mombasa port since last Thursday now says the United Nations should be held responsible for the weapons found on it.

Hoegh Autoliners said in a statement on its website last evening that "these weapons belong to the UN vehicles in which they were found" and were to be used for the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) but claims the UN arms were "not declared in the cargo manifest" prepared when the vehicles were loaded onto Hoegh Transporters in Mumbai, India.