Iran Ambassador to Kenya has come out to refute claims that he was not planning to aid two terror suspects ,Iranian nationals, Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammed and Sayed Mansour Mousavi, are in custody pending a decision by the Supreme Court whether to release them or not.
“I was the one who reported to the Interior Ministry that there were two people who approached me to prepare the departure of the two Iranian nationals saying they would be released,” he said. He further added that the two people asked for an unspecified amount of money from him, a request that he did not accept.
“These people who said they were acting on behalf of the Interior Ministry asked me for money. They however did not say how much money they wanted and immediately I realised they wanted a bribe which I did not offer,” Farajvand added.
He had a difficult time trying to explain why he booked tickets for the two Iranian terror suspects about the same time the plot was being hatched.
“Reserving the tickets does not mean we wanted to aid the escape of those two people from the country… how do we get them out of police custody? Previously when the Court of Appeal set them free, we had their tickets ready but that does not mean we wanted to aid their escape,” he said.
“Again, the reason we book tickets earlier is because you know if you do not act on time, then the time they want to go back, the airlines might not have those seats so to be on a safe side we reserved them but that does not mean we had any other arrangements.”