{"id":37710,"date":"2019-02-24T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/?p=37710"},"modified":"2019-02-24T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T12:38:43","slug":"__trashed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/2019\/02\/24\/__trashed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya is Playing With Fire in Taking on Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It was in 1970s when a senior commander of the Somali military forces was notified about irregular and suspicious movements by the Kenyan defence forces near the border of Somalia and Kenya. His reaction was rather luxury than worrying as he mockingly responded that the women brigade of the Somali military will be assigned in dealing with the Kenyan troops. With all due respect to our precious women, that answer was amusing as Somalis value their women highly and often assign them the easy tasks while men usually handle the tougher part of the job. Therefore, that was a clear message of Kenya being the least country that Somalia is ever worried about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis true that the situation between Kenya and Somalia is different now as the\nrole arguably reversed due to the long instability that Somalia had to deal\nwith for over Three decades while Kenya has had little problems in that regard.\nHowever, Somalia is still a major stake holder though in east and central\nAfrica in terms of business, diplomacy and military.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somalia\nhas had a semi-healthy relationship with Kenya until last week when Kenya\nsurprisingly revoked the Somali ambassador and sent him home while they called\ntheir ambassador from Mogadishu.  Kenyan\ngovernment reasoned their reckless decision to the meeting in London between\nthe Somali government and some research companies in which Kenya uncertainly complained\nabout Somalia auctioning oil blocks in a disputed maritime border.  The reality is; that meeting was organized,\nfacilitated and chaired by Somalia and its main purpose was to exhibit the oil\nrich blocks in the Somali Ocean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nwe know Somalia has endured a torrid few years of unrest and instability driven\nby foreign actors. In all those years, Kenya was actively engaged in fuelling\nthe fire of Somalia. They intended to turn the focus of the Somalis from their\nrich resources so that the Kenyans will take advantage of them. Nevertheless,\nit is genuine to say that Somalis-however they are busy – always forget every\nother thing when they see a foreigner attempting to rob their resources.  Somalis are always united against their\nforeign enemy when it comes to defend their land and integrity. They could be\nshort of a lot of things in life but not bravery and patriotism when defending\ntheir sovereignty. It is no different when Kenya has tried to take a huge\nportion of the Somali maritime by taking advantage of the Somali weak\ngovernment in early 2010s. Kenya found out that the Somali maritime close to\nthe border of Kenya is rich in oil after carrying out an illegal smuggling\nsurvey. Therefore, they had tried in a lot of ways to convince the then Somali\ngovernment led by the popular Sharif Sh Ahmed in giving up a huge triangle of\nthe Somali maritime close to the border of the Kenya by wrongly accusing that\nthe border was incorrectly measured during the colonial time. After a lot\nhassle and disputes; The Somali government signed a MoU with their Kenyan\ncounterparts to take their disputes to the ICJ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile,\nSomalia presented the issues to the ICJ in 2016 and the ICJ ruled that Kenya\nshould not go close to the disputed area until a final judgement is made by the\ncourt. However, Kenya is still seemingly reluctant to accept the initial order\nas they believe that the court will rule the disputed zone in the Somali\nfavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenya\nshowed their desperation for the Somali owned maritime when they exiled the\nSomali ambassador and called theirs home as well while releasing a comical\nstatement calling neighbouring Somalia a close enemy. Thus, the reaction of the\nSomali people in general was strong and unforgiving. Every one was eagerly\nanticipating the reaction of the Somali government and all were campaigning for\na ban on all Kenyan imported goods mainly the KHAD in which alone Kenyans make\nhundreds of thousands of dollars daily. However, after a careful\nconsiderations, the Somali government released a diplomatic statement which\nclearly indicated that Kenya did not do any research before their ruthless\ndecision as Somalia confirmed that the oil blocks exhibited in the London\nmeeting were all with in Somalia and non in the disputed area, so Kenya scored\nan own goal in that regard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nSomali public did not take kindly to the allegations of the Kenyan government\nin calling them a close enemy and they were equally expecting a stronger response\nfrom their government but the Somali government opted to win the diplomatic war\nrather than the emotional war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile,\nwhat Kenyans don\u2019t know is that Somalis will never ever give up an inch of\ntheir land until the last Somali lady left on earth. No one nation, individual\nor entity can take a possession of a Somali owned resources, land or asset. We\nmight not have had any central strong government for over three decades but\nwhat we never lacked is the heart, desire and will to die for our nation and\nsovereignty. The more this rift continues the desperate Kenya will get and the\nmore Somalia will be relentless to strike Kenya. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ndiplomatic war has already been won by the Somali government after Kenya\nembarrassed it self with toothless statements which lacked cohesion, composure\nand maturity in politics. It is not a coincidence but rather a confirmation\nthat Somalia always has had the upper hand against Kenya in almost every angle\nand this diplomatic lesson just shows how far Kenya has to go to reach the\npotential of Somalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise\nKenya will be committing a commercial suicide in taking on Somalia. Somalia has\nlong been integral in the major business activities in Kenya and mainly in\nNairobi. It is fair to say that Somali business men had a wake up call after\nthe KASARANI incident in 2014 and they put a massive investment in Somalia\nafter that incident while their business in Nairobi just remained stable but\nnot upgraded in new waves. The number of Kenyan people employed by the Somali\nbusiness men inside Kenya is staggering, while the amount of money that Kenyan\ngovernment is making from the Somalis in Kenya in the name of taxes and bribery\nis astonishing. The major commodity that Kenya exports to Somalia is KHAT which\ngenerates millions of dollars of income for the Kenyan farmers per annum. Thus,\nKenya is really abysmal in their risk assessment and responses. Similarly,\nKenya is making millions of dollars in rental costs of the useless refuge comps\nof Dhadhab and Kakuma while Nairobi hosts the headquarters of almost all\nhumanitarian organizations working is Somalia. Kenya already tasted the bitter\nfruits of relocating the Somali assets after the Somali government returned the\nnational civil aviation center from Nairobi to Mogadishu and Kenya could no\nlonger get any taxes from that area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally,\nI saw a Kenyan reporter who ignorantly promoted military actions against\nSomalia, the only response I can give him is that Somalia does not currently\nhave a recognised military unit but it has a nation of military people and\ncommandos. Life and lavishness is the last thing that Somali people mind when\nit comes fighting for their liberation. Somalia has been in war against\nforeigners for centuries and it is the least thing to worry about as long as\nthe integrity and sovereignty of our country is in jeopardy. Just ask the\nrecent American so called rangers who blindly wanted to capture the Somali icon\nof Gen. Aidid but their mission turned into rescuing their hostages and\ncollecting their dead bodies after facing a handful of untrained Somali farmers,\nmerchants and women who called them selves (Revengers) in the streets of\nMogadishu. The American arrogance led them to underrate the Somali bravery and\npatriotism and that yielded the infamous massacre of their so called special\nforces in the battle of Mogadishu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nconclusion, Kenya will be making their deadliest ever mistake in aggressively\ntaking on Somalia. And this time around, it will not be our women brigade to\ntackle Kenya but our whole nation. Somalia may lose a war as it happened before\nbut it always wins the battle. Don\u2019t be fooled like Ethiopians who declared a victory\nagainst Somali insurgents inside Somalia in 2006 but couldn\u2019t be granted even a\nsafe passage after they were pathetically forced out of Somalia in 2010. If 5\nSomali men-regardless of their motives-can take the whole of Nairobi to a stand\nstill, what will 200 Somali men -with the backing of their whole nation-do to\nyou? You will be finished as a country!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohamed\nYonis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mhassan143@hotmail.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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