Somalia in trouble!! Wetang’ula reveals chilling details on maritime boarder row

Former Foreign minister Moses Wetang’ula on Monday said Kenya and Somalia had signed an agreement that placed the disputed Indian Ocean waters in Kenyan territory.

The Bungoma senator said he signed the deal during President Mwai Kibaki’s administration.

Wetang’ula did not say the exact year when the deal was inked. The Ford Kenya Party leader  served as Foreign minister between 2008 and 2010 and again from 2011 to 2012.

“As Foreign Affairs minister, I negotiated with the Somalia Government at that time. We signed the agreement to have the latitudinal boundary,” he said.

“We deposited the agreement with the AU, and later deposited the maps with the UN. The matter went uninterrupted for quite some time.”

Wetang’ula spoke at his Ford Kenya party headquarters in Nairobi. He called for Kenya’s heightened activities in the disputed area. “You have your territory by occupation and Kenya should engage its friends by showing active presence.”

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On Saturday, PS Macharia Kamau issued a statement that was interpreted to mean that Kenya had recalled its ambassador to Mogadishu and expelled Somalia’s envoy to Nairobi. Kamau said Somalia had auctioned oil and gas blocks in maritime areas claimed by both countries. The auction is said to have happened in London on February 7. Somalia denied the claim.

Macharia later said the Kenyan ambassador had only been summoned while his Somalia counterpart had been sent to Mogadishu for consultation. “The action was taken so we can resolve this matter with credible and correct information from both sides,” Kamau tweeted.

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On Sunday, Somalia said it was not offering oil and gas blocs in the disputed waters for auction. “Somalia is not offering, nor does it have any plans to offer any blocks in the disputed maritime area until the parties’ maritime boundary is decided by the ICJ,” the country’s embassy said.

 

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