Saturday, April 03, 2010
The Regional Security Minister General Yusuf Ahmed Kheyr said in a press conference in the port town of Bosasso, about 1,500 kilometres north-east of the capital that his administration lost patience, because he said the pirates have started to strangle the Somali people.
“We are going to start big anti-pirate operations in the waters under our control and we will do our utmost to defeat the buccaneers,” Punland’s Security Minister stated during his Saturday’s press conference in Bosasso.
“Your know they have abducted many commercial boats loaded with goods for Somalia, and that is what caused us to take the hard decision against the pirates whom we know are going to cause more problems on the vulnerable Somalis who have already been fed up with the endless civil war, poverty and insecurity” the minister angrily stated.
He however denied speculations that some of the Puntland authorities have close relations with the pirates, saying that Puntlanders, including government officials and ordinary people will all take part in the major combat against piracy off its coast.
He called on the international community to help his regional state defeat the rampant piracy off the coast of Somalia and especially in the north-eastern Somali waters.
Meanwhile, the Somali Deputy Speaker has accused the foreign warships off the coast of Somalia of doing nothing in the field of fighting piracy, saying that instead they are engaged in illegal fishing.
“There are more than a hundred submarines in the Gulf of Aden and in Somali waters and they could already defeat the pirates if they are true to what they claim,” the Somalia Deputy Speaker Professor Mohamed Omar Dalha said in a press conference in Mogadishu this weekend.
Source: APA