Somali president pays historic visit to Somali embassy in Kenya

Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has visited Somali embassy in Kenya’s capital city Nairobi amid parts of the embassy building is under construction.

The president and delegation were welcomed by Somali ambassador to Kenya, Jamal Mohamed Hassan.

Speaking at the embassy Mohamud said Somalia spent time and money before Somalia scored legal victory after a Kenyan court ruled the transfer of the building from Indian businessmen who bought it after the civil war broke out back to the Somali government.

The president applauded the collaborative efforts of the former Somali ambassador to Kenya Mohamed Ali Americo, Somali business communities, and the Somali communities at large who challenged with purchasers in courts.

Last year, Somalia’s prime minister Omar Abdirashid Ali laid the foundation stone for the re-building of a new Somali embassy in Nairobi five years after the horn of Africa nation’s government reclaimed the ownership of the premises after Nairobi’s high court annulled the fraudulent sale of the property.

The embassy has remained out of Somalia’s control for 18 years until last year that the sale of the 2.26-acre parcel of land and the buildings’ to two Indian businessmen whom the authority owned the premise was annulled by a court.