The former president of Somalia’s semiautonomous regional state of Puntland General Mahmoud Muse Hersi popularly known as Adde has for the first time disclosed that key members of the region’s coastal guards have joined the rampant pirates off the coast of Somalia. During a via phone press conference for local media last night General Adde said that more marines have joined the pirates and that is a big slap the fight against piracy operation by the Puntland administration. “Our forces left from us and instead they turned into buccaneers this will diminish our efforts to eradicate piracy off the lawless coast of Somalia” the former leader lamented.
“I am praising religious men and some of the local elders who said no to pirates and refused to sell goods from them” the former president stated calling on people in the Puntland region to be united against the notorious pirates.
In other development, the regional minister for seaports and marine resources Abdirisaq Hussein Gaaceyte asked international community for more assistance to root out pirate-related activities along the coast of Somalia.
“We are fed up with pirates and terrorism, both are global problems and Puntland alone can’t cope with them, so we call on the world community to help us put to an end to piracy off Somali coast” the minister told reporters in the port city of Bosasso last night.
Puntland is the hotbed for Somali pirates while the second stranglehold for pirates is said to be Harardhere district which is about 300 kilometres north east of the capital Mogadishu.
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