Kenyan government begins construction of security wall along Somalia border. Somalis claim the wall is inside Somali territory.

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Kenya begins construction of security wall along Somali border

 

MANDERA, Kenya, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The Kenyan government has begun constructing a security wall along its border with Somalia to help curb cross border incursions by Somali militant Al-Shabaab.

 

Director of Immigration Services Gordon Kihalangwa, who officially broke the ground in Mandera late Monday, urged the locals to support the project which he said would help prevent Al- Shabaab militants from crossing into Kenya.

 

Kihalangwa said the wall will run from Mandera in the north to Kiunga in the east coast, covering Mandera, Wajir, Garissa and Lamu counties.

 

He said the purpose of the wall is to demarcate the Kenya- Somalia border besides securing the country from Al-Shabaab militants, adding that the government is doing everything possible to sensitize members of the public on the importance of the wall.

 

"The project is fully funded by the government with relevant government departments chipping in; the ministry of transport, the National Youth Service and Kenya Defence Forces have given in their support to this noble task," he said. "We will ensure that our borders are secure by preventing illegal immigrants and proliferation of small arms into the country."

 

Kihalangwa said the wall will not bar cross border movements, adding that there will be designated points for exit and entry into the country. He revealed that machinery, equipment and materials for the construction are already on the ground.

 

Kenyan officials say the security wall will provide a long-term security efforts to secure the border, adding that once the construction is completed, it will only be crossed by entering through the appropriate border points.

 

The Islamist group has carried series of deadly attacks in northeast Kenya and other cities, including the capital city of Nairobi, since the East African country sent its military into Somalia in 2011 to fight the Al-Qaida inspired group.

 

Kenyan authorities have also blamed the militants for being behind spates of kidnapping of expatriates working in the sprawling refugee camps in the incursion-prone northern region and tourists in the coastal archipelago towns of Mombasa and Lamu.

 

Officials link these attacks to the fact that Mandera and Bula Hawa, an adjoining town in Somalia, are barely two kilometres apart, thus making it easy for terrorists to cross the border and attack. Somalis living at Bula-hawa town had also violated the no- man's land and encroached into Kenya. The wall will thus help rectify the situation.

 

Source: http://www.globalpost.com

http://www.somaliaonline.com/kenyan-government-begins-construction-of-security-wall-along-somalia-border-somalis-claim-the-wall-is-inside-somali-territory/

[DoctorKenney]

I would be indifferent to this development if it wasn't for the fact that Kenya occupies about 130,000 square kilometers of Somali territory.

 

That is a piece of land equivalent to the size of Israel and South Korea COMBINED. This is Somali territory which the Kenyans are currently occupying and keeping it as their own.

 

 

This huge chunk of land is Somali. The people living on that land are 97% ethnic Somalis. They voted to be part of Somalia yet the Kenyans continue to occupy our people.

 

If the Kenyans want to build a border wall, then let them do so on the NFD border, and let the Somalis have their own autonomy.

[Tallaabo]

Dr Ken, Kenya like every other country will never build a wall inside its recognised borders. As for the Somalis, I think our humiliation and fall from grace is complete now that even the other Africans want to erect walls of steel and concrete to keep us at bay. We have become the despised new Gypsies of the world.

[CidanSultan]

What did you expect from rapists,looters, theifs, dictators, murderers etc. I'm telling you these southern somalis are a cursed people.they need to ask God for forgiveness. Jahilnimo has robbed them of everything. What do you expect when you get a nation of people who don't know what honesty means. Or what God fearing is or even what human decency is. You have injustice which leads to chaos.

 

RIP to southern somalis. Occupied by Africans, supported online by mental patients, a president whose head occupies cloud 9. Absolute total shambles. Welcome to the piss bucket Republic gentlemen only alive in the heads of the refugee kids of the diaspora who don't know where home is

[Che -Guevara]

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Have a sunday

[Mooge]

ciidansuldan, niyoow you look very angry. if somalia is dead, why are you sounding so angry niyoow. and what is up with the cursing and calaacal niyoow. why don't you just talk like a grown man niyoow. sidii gabar ba u calacalaysaa. this is not good niyoow.

 

 

[Miyir]

This must be a joke? Kenyan's building a wall? Lets see if they can build a kilometer

[ElPunto]

I don't know where DK gets the 97% Somali people stat in that region. Garissa university college is a mostly Christian institution as attested to by numerous new articles. The police are mostly non-Somali as are most of the teachers and other professionals. Remember the quarry workers killed in Mandera sometime ago - they were all Kenyans from other regions? Apparently Mandera is so rich - the Somalis there need not debase themselves by working in a quarry - is the place Kuwait or something? IF you have abandoned all the key middle class jobs to Kenyans from other regions - what does your majority in the region get you anyway?

 

The NFD Somalis are still asleep at the switch. They get a few high profile MPs and they think they actually matter. Time to actually build NFD, educate your kids and have them come back to the region and work there.

[DoctorKenney]

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I don't know where DK gets the 97% Somali people stat in that region. Garissa university college is a mostly Christian institution as attested to by numerous new articles. The police are mostly non-Somali as are most of the teachers and other professionals. Remember the quarry workers killed in Mandera sometime ago - they were all Kenyans from other regions? Apparently Mandera is so rich - the Somalis there need not debase themselves by working in a quarry - is the place Kuwait or something? IF you have abandoned all the key middle class jobs to Kenyans from other regions - what does your majority in the region get you anyway?

 

The NFD Somalis are still asleep at the switch. They get a few high profile MPs and they think they actually matter. Time to actually build NFD, educate your kids and have them come back to the region and work there.

 

97% of the people in the NFD region are indeed Somalis. This is a statistical fact. That land is populated mainly by the Bigfoot clan and the Gedo clan.

 

Garissa is a city on the border between the Kenyan portion of Kenya and the Somali portion of Kenya. So of course the university will attract students from all over Kenya. But just drive through Garissa and enter the countryside and almost everyone you meet will be Somalis.

 

All I'm saying is that the NFD Somalis were never given opportunities to succeed in their own land, as their territory was carved out by the British and given to the Kikuyus to administer. NFD is Somali territory and it should either be given independence or it should join Somalia and become a federal state.