The Ethiopian Military Chief, General Berhanu Jula, on Saturday, in an interview, ridiculed the President of Somalia and Somalia’s military.
He said that Hassan Sheikh cannot control Mogadishu let alone entire Somalia. “People are dying in Mogadishu. Hassan Sheikh should protect Mogadishu first,” he said. He said Somalia’s military is less than the police of a region in Ethiopia and it cannot wage war on Ethiopia. General Jula did not care to address Hassan Sheikh as President in his interview.
The Ethiopian military chief rejected recent allegations from Somalia’s President that Ethiopia is arming regional states in Somalia. But he said that Ethiopia could arm Puntland, South West and Galmudug if Somalia tried to destabilize Ethiopia.
Ethiopia and Somalia have exchanged several strongly worded statements in the last few months. Somalia wants to stop Ethiopia from implementing a Memorandum of Understanding which Ethiopia and Somaliland signed in January this year. Somalia has signed defense and security cooperation agreements with Turkey and Egypt recently to undermine the MoU.
President Hassan Sheikh recently accused Ethiopia of annexing Somalia’s territories, arming Somalia’s regional states and releasing water to cause flood in Somalia.
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