PUNTLAND STATE OF SOMALIA

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PUNTLAND STATE OF SOMALIA
PRESENTATION ON SEA PIRATES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
ON THE LIVES OF SOMALIA PEOPLE AND REST OF THE
WORLD
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REFLECTION

• As we run this presentation, about 15 to 20
  Ships with more than 300 crew hostages on board
  are being held on the costs of Somalia
• For the last 12 months total ships/vessels
  attacked along the Somalia sea water exceeded 140
  Sea liners of all sizes capacities, an average
  rate of 12 per month.
• Its believed that more than 1000 persons (most of
  them former fishermen) are involving the sea
  piracy groups in Somalia

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• Hostage taking for ransom periods varies from 30
  days upto various months
• Lives and conditions of captives on board remain
  mysterious, unknown inaccessible throughout the
  hijack period.
• Many crew members get injured, other lost their
  lives during the attack or/and after.
• Sea pirates target all types of carriers and no
  exemptions of any particular cargos which if
  damaged during the raid can cause irreversible
  environmental and economical disasters

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• The pace and sizes in numbers of newly forming
  pirate groups is getting so intensified day after
  a day- its now all-out rush to piracy because of
  the ransom which makes dangerous to our security.

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CHRONOLIGICAL RELATIONSHIP THE TRAWLERS THE
PIRATES- THE CONSEQUENCES

• Habitat destruction trawling over very
  sensitive inshore areas leading to
  destruction/disturbance of coral reefs and other
  critical habitats routinely practiced by the
  international illegal fishing vessels.
• Large number of both fishing boats and gears were
  destroyed on daily basis, continually disrupting
  and robbing the livelihoods of local communities.
  

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IMPLICATIONS OF PIRACY ON PUNTLAND/ SOMALI PEOPLE

• ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS
• Diminished trade follow from and to Somali sea
  ports
• Sharp increase of commodities prices and high
  cost of living leading to wide spread inflations
• Severe shortages of essential food commodities
  and other basic items as direct results from lack
  of /or extremely expensive liner freights.
• Keeping in mind that 99 of home consumption
  commodities in Puntland are imported from overseas

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ECONOMIC IMPL.(CONT)

• Decreased access to and availability of job
  opportunities, self employment, income earnings
  mechanisms leading to enormous vulnerability of
  general population

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SECURITY IMPLICATIONS

• Increased self-organized freelance armed gangs
  ready to joint pirates
• Flourishing piracy business attracted large
  number of unemployed youth, poverty-stricken
  nomads due to that repetitive draughts whipped
  out their livestock, and to some extent poorly
  paid government security personnel
• As they fail in piracy seizure, many of them will
  turn to be engaged with highways and urban
  rubbery crimes
• Prolonged piracy activities can lead collateral
  offensive from external forces which may
  negatively impact on the overall Puntland
  security

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POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS

• There is growing indications of that wealthier
  pirates have strategic interest may create a new
  war loards and extremist orginasations in our
  regional adminstration .

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SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS

• Spoiling social values and setting illicit role
  modeling for young generation
• Larger number of the pirates were drug abusers
  and addicts with no formal education background
  hence their favorite way of expending their
  income goes to Qaad chewing, expensive lucre,
  prostitution and other socially diseased
  activities
• Deterioration of the over all social well being
  as result of proliferation of criminal incidents
  and negative social values

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Puntland Coast Guard
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EFFORTS MADE BY PUNTLAND GOVERMENT

• Successfully rescued lives and properties on
  board of all the hijacked 5 boats/ships ,during
  rescue operations pirates suffered casualties.
• Puntland coastal guard undertake inadequate and
  limited range sea patrolling.
• More than 240 sea pirates have been captured in
  deferent locations and different times most of
  them has been sentenced and remain behind bars.
• thecourt of law

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EFFORTS MADE BY

• Additionally, there is a number of pirates
  captured by international navy ships and handed
  over to Puntland authorizes .
• Puntland administration established special law
  for dealing with captured pirates. traditional
  community leaders and religious leaders endorsed
  and supported the law.
• A new Anti Piracy Commission was formed in March
  2009 to coordinate the anti piracy efforts of the
  government.

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EFFORTS MADE BY

• Religion leaders expedited successive social
  gathering and awareness raising orientations
  directed to communities living in coastal
  settlements for counseling against dealing with
  pirates.
• Recently, anti piracy protests were routinely
  held in the major towns of Puntalnd with
  participation of highest leadership including the
  president.

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CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES RESTRICTED PUNTLAND
FROM CURBING THE PIRATES

• Due to the fact that Puntland coastline is
  stretched out 1600km it has made impossible for
  Puntland fulfill safeguarding of its sea water.
• Limited and under equipped Puntland coastguards
  services cant cope by itself alone to undo
  current trends.

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CONSTRAINTS CHALLENGE

• Multinational Navy forces from the UN mandated
  nations to secure marine transporter passages
  along the Somalia coasts are willingly refrained
  to establish cooperation with Puntland government
  for collective course of action against the
  pirate.
• Due to the lack of collaboration between the
  international community and the concerned
  administration results negative impact that more
  international navy forces joint the show, the
  more new ships are getting hijacked and the more
  ransom paid off bargain rate increases

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RECOMMENDATIONS

• Clearly defined rule of engagement of the
  multination navy forces in Somali waters with
  regard to the fight against Pirates is must.
• Any meaningful interventions meant to fight sea
  piracy should be holistic, systematic and
  partnership (international and national
  structures) approach based.
• Roles that existing administrations can play
  has equal comparative advantage to that of
  international forces in the fight of Pirates-
  hence only true partnership of both can make
  difference

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RECOMMENDATIONS

• The criminal pirates can be seized/apprehended
  best while they are still on the ground (at
  beaches) and getting self-preparation for
  expedition
• Various ground observation with necessary
  communication and logistics equipments should be
  established in identified location along
  coastline
• To achieve the above mentioned goals ,There is a
  need to establish well equipped trained
  coastguard units with ability to counter-prevent
  pirates boats before they go into deep seas and
  international marine routes

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• THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION