Former president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, has denied that he left the country with stolen money.
According to a BBC report, he took $11million cash after he lost the December 1 election to Adama Barrow.
Following a meeting with Guinean President Alpha Conde and Mauritania’s President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz on Saturday, Jammeh left Banjul into exile with his family aboard Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s Falcon 900.
According to The Nation, investigations have revealed that there was money on the private jet.
“No such happened,” one of the sources said.
“In fact, it was impossible for looted monies to have been taken away on an aircraft that was in public glare. The radar of the international media, security forces and Gambian people was on the aircraft.
“It is practically impossible to load millions of dollars on the plane. In any case, no money was loaded into the plane, safe Guinean President Conde, Jammeh, his wife, mother and son,” the sources said.
Report says Tinubu was reluctant to release his jet, but was eventually persuaded that the aircraft would only be used to convey Jammeh and his family.
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