A final solution to the Somali problem.

[Che -Guevara]

Why Kenya and Ethiopia ought to annex and divide Somalia

 

 

by DONALD KIPKORIR, dkipkorir@ktk.co.ke

Friday, October 03, 2008

 

Last month, Lehmans Brothers and Merrill Lynch, the world’s foremost investment banks, went bankrupt and we witnessed the financial chaos in the western capitals.

 

In the fog of international headlines on finding a financial bail-out in Washington, a rag-tag army of 50 semi-naked men on rickety boats captured a ship carrying 33 T-72 tanks, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns off the coast of Somalia.

 

The capture of mv Faina and the stalemated talks amid the surrounding American and Russian warships made me think that maybe this is the time to find a final solution to the Somali problem.

 

Since 1960, the country has been a lawless state that is a haven for terrorists and pirates. The pirates have told us the destination of the captured weaponry causing tension and panic in Washington, Nairobi and Khartoum.

 

If it is true that the final consignee was the government of Southern Sudan, as they allege, I will be on the same page with the Kibaki government for the first time.

 

I am a fervent supporter of a strategic foreign policy even if it attracts us enemies of such malevolent and despotic regimes as that of Khartoum.

 

Supporting the Southern Sudan government is in our long-term strategic interest and we should not shy from it. The truth of the matter is that as a Western ally, Kenya is an existential enemy of Arab countries, Sudan included.

 

Annexing Somalia is thus in our strategic interest and we must do it now as the financial meltdown continues to take away the attention of the world.

 

Somalia as a state exists only in world maps. It is a classic case of a failed state. It is a state dismembered into as many independent units as there are sub-clans. Its 90-strong cabinet is emblematic of the actual number of units.

 

The Horn of Africa country has no functioning government. The so-called transitional federal government, led by Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, is confined to a shell-shocked presidential compound.

 

There is no standing or even sitting army or judicial systems. By all accounts, Somalia is a black hole in international law. Together with Afghanistan and Pakistan they are known as the training grounds and refuge for international terrorism.

 

Kenya has been a victim of such terrorism, leading to near-destruction of its tourism industry. We cannot afford another such attack. We have the potential to develop our tourism to compete with, if not outpace, Egypt and South Africa. But we cannot do so if Somalia continues to be a non-state.

 

Somalia neighbours Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti. Of these, it is only Ethiopia and Kenya that have strategic interest in Somalia. Djibouti is a primitive entrepot that can’t even supply water to its 600,000 people, who are forced to drink that imported from France or Coca Cola. Therefore, Djibouti is out in the quest for the final solution to the Somali puzzle.

 

Kenya and Ethiopia must and ought to dismember Somalia and divide it between themselves along the 4 degrees latitude, each taking all the land below and above the line.

 

The division will make both countries extend their territories by roughly 300,000sq km and additional populations of about five million.

 

Once Kenya and Ethiopia have sent their combined army to Somalia and declared the annexation, we will present to the world a fait accompli.

 

In 1845, America annexed Texas from Mexico and forced the Texan legislature to pass a specific legislation stating that it accepted the annexation. The annexation has stood to date and, for good measure, President George W. Bush is a proud American Texan.

 

For Kenya and Ethiopia, having the Somali legislature to endorse the annexation will be cake-walk. At any given time, most, if not all, Somali legislators are in Nairobi.

 

We will have them convene in one of our hotels and to pass the appropriate statutes dividing their country.

 

When the allied forces liberated Germany from Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, they sent the bill to Berlin.

 

Our cost of annexing Somalia will be settled by Mogadishu. Somalia is known to have huge deposits of oil, natural gas, uranium and iron ore. Immediately after the annexation, we will invite our strategic foreign friends (not China please) to come and exploit the resources for us.

 

Kenyans ought to know that although Somalia is a failed state, its positive statistics are impressive. Without a structured economy, its gross national income per capita is US$600 (Sh40,000), when ours is $550 (Sh36,800). Of its universities that operate without budgets and with armed militia guarding them, three are in Africa’s top 100.

 

International law forbids the use of force by states against the territorial integrity and political independence of others. Somalia doesn’t have either.

 

But the law also recognises irreversible processes like the extinction of states such as in the USSR, emergence of new states from former USSR and Yugoslavia, and annexations like that of Texas. International order hates reversing completed processes, more so if the world is a better place.

 

If we do not annex Somalia and now, we will be a victim of its failed status and pulled down by it. We will not be able to achieve our strategic foreign policy in the region, or attain the Vision 2030 goal.

The time to annex and dismember Somalia is now; Washington and Moscow will be grateful.

 

DONALD B. KIPKORIR holds a Bachelor of Laws, LL.B (Hons) Degree from the University of Nairobi and a Postgraduate Diploma from the Kenya School of Law. He is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya (admitted in 1992), with wide experience in Commercial Litigation, Insurance Claims, Advertising Law, Defamation, Debt Recovery and White-collar Crime law, Copyright, Trademark and Patent law. He is also a member of the Law Society of Kenya and a former member of its council. He has served as a Director in Kenya Post Office Savings Bank (Postbank).

[Che -Guevara]

For a man whose people were burning each other in churches not too long ago and hacking each other to death, he is pretty cavalier with the usage of the phrase " final solution" considering its historical context. And he seems to over estimate his strength and forget his place in the world, and not mention he retardly believe the west will be there to back them if things go sore. Someone should tell him that the west might leave them hanging like pinata at Mexican party--Just ask Mikheil Nikolozis dze Saakashvili!

[Che -Guevara]

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Ee yaa u sheego oo ka heysto. Why can't they do it? By all means, go ahead, Mr. Kibirkoriye, err Kipkorir. Wax kibirka kaa bixiyo adigaa soo arki doonee.

 

The map aaba i dishay iyo siduu u kala qeybiye. His hatred of anything Soomaali xataa Jabuuti ugu fakan weysay.

[Che -Guevara]

^Primitive Jabouti :mad:

 

The level of hatred :confused: :confused: !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

LoL. Madax luxid wey dhaaftay, this coming from a man in a country ku jiray kuwii baangadaha isku qaatay, qoorta iska gooynaayi and dab isqabadsiinaaye in maalin caddeey in the name of tribes. Kuwa adduunweynihii ka yaabay. Suu ciyoow u ilooway igu daranba, sanadba kama soo wareeganinee.

[Chimera]

Kenya

 

- A country with the worst record of corruption in Africa since independence

 

- A country with the largest slums in Africa

 

- A country whose economy is controlled by ex-colonials and Indians and now Somalis

 

- A country where people a few months ago were burning/hacking and shooting each other to death - A situation that could break out again any day of the week considering all these ethnic groups are still not satisfied

 

- A country who's main tourist industry is prostitution

 

- A country with a mindblowing aids rate - seven or eight times higher than Somalia

 

- A country that can't provide water to all it's nomadic ethnicities( funny how Djibouti was called primitive for the same reason)

 

This country is suppossed to solve the Somali problem? who's going to solve KENYA'S PROBLEMS?

 

Ethiopia

 

- A country where a racist minority rules over majorities

 

- A country where a dozens different seccesion groups are active who want nothing to do with the country

 

- A country that has an inferior telecommunication system compared to Somalia

 

- A country with less universities in the top 100 of Africa than Somalia

 

- A country with a smaller GDP per capita than the failed-state Somalia( see Economist)

 

- A country where 15 million people every year face starvation

 

- A country that tap dances to every Uncle Sam tune

 

This country is going to solve the Somali problem? Who's going to solve Ethiopia's problems?

 

These GI JOE's Arnold Kipkopkipko's and Mutunga Wango's pretending their countries are anything but slaves of America are amusing

 

Insha-allah by the time of his deadline 2030 Somalia will have swallowed them all

[-Lily-]

This man makes me sick, allow ya dharbaaxo...

[nuune]

If I go to Kenya this year, anaa kan ku janno tagaayo, afaankuulo bastaardo dheh

[-Lily-]

^^^LooooooooooooL

[nuune]

^^ Lily, check this, how the famous Ethiopian blog generated such a large volume of response to this article!!

 

 

Should Ethiopia annex Somalia? by Nazret blog

 

 

Wana join me excute that guy!!

[General Duke]

The man needs to be told that Somalia as a state will last longer than Kenya and Ethiopia. The Somali's are one people with one religion and one culture. What we are going through is no more than what the French, Germans and other "civilised" races did. Its a dark period in our history.

 

Now consider there is a civil war in Kenya or Ethiopia? Will they survive as we did, or would they make Rawanda a a nice day dream..

 

Annexe Somalia my ***.

[N.O.R.F]

^^Erm erm yeah right.

 

Problem is Ethiopia and Kenya CAN do what the author suggests with little in the way of opposition from the Int Community.

[General Duke]

^^^Yeah of course, like ermm, Somaliland can get recognition by way of the international community, spot on dude....Its so simple isnt ittt dude..

[N.O.R.F]

^^waa runtaa