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Jubbaland deputy president: IJA stands against any encroachment on Somalia’s territory,

Storyline:National News

Interim Jubba Administration has reiterated that it would not accept Kenya to encroach on Somali land amid elders in Bulla-hawa accused Kenya scrubbing out beacons at the two countries’ borderlines.

Deputy President of Jubbaland, Abdikadir Lugga-dhere said that IJA will never ever tolerate any attempt to encroach Somali territory.

He pointed out that Jubbaland has talk to the government of Kenya about the issue and informed Kenya that IJA is against any plan to construct a security wall in Somali territory.

“We shall not accept Kenya to take one meter of Somali land and we have contacted to Government of Kenya” he said.

Somali parliamentarians have on Saturday debated a motion that calls for the withdrawal of Kenyan troops following the allegation that Kenya is constructing the border wall in Somali land.

The lawmakers voted to have an urgent response to the border crisis with solution to the crisis at the border in 48 hours.

Last year Somali government filed 150-page court filing on Somalia’s maritime border dispute with Kenya at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

Somalia in its application is requesting the  ICJ to “determine, on the basis of international law, the complete course of the single maritime boundary dividing all the maritime areas appertaining to Somalia and to Kenya in the Indian Ocean, including the continental shelf beyond 200 [nautical miles].” It also asks the ICJ “to determine the precise geographical coordinates of the single maritime boundary in the Indian Ocean.”