Garowe, Somalia - A ship transporting so-called food aid from Mogadishu intended for specific districts of Puntland has arrived near Port of Bossaso, while Puntland Government received no communication regarding this matter whatsoever.
The illegal manner in which the food shipment arrived in Puntland and the intentional bypassing of Puntland Government is clear violation by Federal Government against Puntland Government and its laws.
Puntland Government nominated a Ministerial Committee to assess and decide on this matter. The Committee studied the shipment’s documents, assessed the manner in which the shipment was organized and sent, confirmed the objectives and political interests involved, acknowledged that the Federal Government did not send a request or any communication to Puntland, and the Committee decided to send the shipment back to the original source.
It has become clear that this shipment is part of Federal Government’s political manipulation in Somalia, in gross violation of Provisional Federal Constitution and Puntland Constitution.
The Committee expresses its disappointment with the Turkish Red Crescent office in Mogadishu, which requested Federal Government’s Ministry of Interior and National Security to provide security for food distribution in districts of Puntland.
Puntland Government will soon send an official letter to Turkish Red Crescent and the Turkish Government to provide clarification on this politicized violation that Turkey has become part of.
Puntland Ministerial Committee
1. Minister of Security and DDR
2. Minister of Finance
3. Minister of Interior and Local Government
4. Minister of Ports and Maritime Transport
5. Minister of Information and Telecommunications
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