Breaking Paul threatens to rip open goods in the port belonging to Businessesmen if not shipped off

[Saahid Qamaan]

Paul Anthony Formosa again!

‘Take your stuffs or I will open them up and take it away.‘

He said that it is his port and the businessmen shall use Berbera, Kismayo and Mogadishu!

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

The situation is getting uglier minute by minute!

 

[MARAQ DIGAAG]

Bro why don't you petition the mods for a section called Paul aka Buul ?

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

Maraq what Paul‘s daily abuses and bullying of Bosasians?

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

Bosaso has already troops from all regions brought in to stop people opposing the deal standing on every important junction and heavily guarding Port where Paul is hiding in.

The protests on November 1st resulted in people entering the port and Paul having to flee to the airport and from there to Dubai.

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

Tomorrow all businesses in the central trading area will be shut in protest of the latest actions by the new management of the Port.

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

Paul Formosa abusing his power ordered ships to head 20 miles out to the sea and leave now as strong gusts and winds are blowing.

Clearly a disregard for ship, man and goods which can all get hurt and perish.

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

Paul Anthony Formosa the abuser of Bosaso

 

[XamarCade]

Paul Formosa abusing his power ordered ships to head 20 miles out to the sea and leave now as strong gusts and winds are blowing.

Clearly a disregard for ship, man and goods which can all get hurt and perish.

Wow that's fucked up

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

XamarCade one Puntlander is crying in earnest read what he shares on Facebook!

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

He is saying:

‘I never imagined that after 70 years an Italian/Maltese will rule us in Bosaso after Bosaso gaining independence from them.‘

He is distraught and posted a picture of Paul dining and wining in Rome with his family while the Bosaso port is shut and closed because of him where vital goods come in for the poor.

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

Bloomberg Reporting

Somali Port Shut as Cargo Handlers Oppose P&O Ports Fee Increase
By
Nizar Manek
November 3, 2017, 6:43 AM EDT

• Closure of harbor has led to higher food, fuel prices
• Protests by opponents of P&O Ports concession leave one dead

A dispute over increased port charges in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region resulted in the Dubai-run harbor being shut for more than a week, leading to higher prices for food and fuel and triggering protests that left at least one person dead, residents said.

P&O Ports, part of of Dubai’s state-owned DP World Ltd., increased freight-handling charges by five-fold to $5 per metric ton on Oct. 25, said Abdalla Saleh Jama, the region’s former ports minister. The facility was closed on the same day after cargo operators and livestock exporters rejected the higher fees, he said.

“The businessmen refused the ships entry into the port until the charges are reduced, while the company is not ready to back down,” Jama said by phone from Bosaso, where the facility is located. “The price of food and fuel has already started to rise.”


P&O won a 30-year concession to develop and manage a multi-purpose port at Bosaso in April. It plans to invest $135 million in the facility, the company said by email last month. An April announcement that the operator’s investment will be about $336 million in two phases is “subject to cargo demand,” it said. The authorities in Puntland handed the harbor over to P&O Ports last month.

DP World spokeswoman Sana Maadad said she referred an emailed request for comment to Khalil Saqer bin Gharib, communications director for the Dubai-owned Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corp., saying P&O Ports is a “separate entity from DP World and falls under the PCFC.” DP World acquired P&O Ports in 2014 for $6.85 billion as part of a deal covering 30 terminals in 18 countries.

Protester Killed
Hundreds of opponents of the concession have staged protests demanding the accord be nullified, according to Jama and the Puntland Intelligence Agency’s ex-foreign liaison chief Mohamed Muse Abdule. At least one person died and two others were injured on Wednesday when police opened fire on demonstrations in Bosaso, they said.

Ports Minister Said Mohamed Raage said by phone on Thursday that a change in tariffs had resulted in “some complications” at the port, without providing further details. Three calls to Defense Ministry spokesman Mohamed Mohamed Gubadle’s mobile phone didn’t connect.

Last month, a committee of elders in Puntland filed a request in the region’s Supreme Court asking that the concession be either renegotiated or annulled. The application, submitted on Oct. 1 by lawyer Mohammed Awad Omar and sent to Bloomberg by the Old Bosaso City Elders & Intellectuals Committee, argued that the secrecy of the terms of the agreement rendered it null and void.


“We urge P&O Ports to stop the implementation of this disputed concession agreement altogether and save yourselves and Puntland from protracted quarrel and legal battles,” the committee said in an Oct. 6 letter to DP World Chairman Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem. The court petition seeks to have the port development project relocated at least 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Old Bosasso City, arguing the agreement violates Puntland land acquisition laws.

P&O Ports signed a “legal concession agreement with the elected government of Puntland in accordance with U.K. law,” the company said in an emailed response to questions. “We suggest the allegations are formally addressed to the legally elected and recognized government.”

Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and his office didn’t respond to emailed requests for comment on the allegations.

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

Some wrong details in the reporting regarding the history of P&O but the message covers the core issues.

1. People against port deal

2. Businessmen refused to pay new tariffs

3. Protesters killed

4. High inflation of goods due to no goods coming in

5. Port closure

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

Now Formosa is threatening to put the elders into prison outside Somalia!

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

Meanwhile under Paul’s orders the Vice President Amey and Ports Minister Said Rageh issued directive government decree for all boats to vacate the port by tomorrow 7PM Somalia time.

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

This is an escalation in the standoff that can lead to bloodshed.

 

[DRACO]

Bloomberg Reporting

Somali Port Shut as Cargo Handlers Oppose P&O Ports Fee Increase
By
Nizar Manek
November 3, 2017, 6:43 AM EDT

• Closure of harbor has led to higher food, fuel prices
• Protests by opponents of P&O Ports concession leave one dead

A dispute over increased port charges in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region resulted in the Dubai-run harbor being shut for more than a week, leading to higher prices for food and fuel and triggering protests that left at least one person dead, residents said.

P&O Ports, part of of Dubai’s state-owned DP World Ltd., increased freight-handling charges by five-fold to $5 per metric ton on Oct. 25, said Abdalla Saleh Jama, the region’s former ports minister. The facility was closed on the same day after cargo operators and livestock exporters rejected the higher fees, he said.

“The businessmen refused the ships entry into the port until the charges are reduced, while the company is not ready to back down,” Jama said by phone from Bosaso, where the facility is located. “The price of food and fuel has already started to rise.”


P&O won a 30-year concession to develop and manage a multi-purpose port at Bosaso in April. It plans to invest $135 million in the facility, the company said by email last month. An April announcement that the operator’s investment will be about $336 million in two phases is “subject to cargo demand,” it said. The authorities in Puntland handed the harbor over to P&O Ports last month.

DP World spokeswoman Sana Maadad said she referred an emailed request for comment to Khalil Saqer bin Gharib, communications director for the Dubai-owned Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corp., saying P&O Ports is a “separate entity from DP World and falls under the PCFC.” DP World acquired P&O Ports in 2014 for $6.85 billion as part of a deal covering 30 terminals in 18 countries.

Protester Killed
Hundreds of opponents of the concession have staged protests demanding the accord be nullified, according to Jama and the Puntland Intelligence Agency’s ex-foreign liaison chief Mohamed Muse Abdule. At least one person died and two others were injured on Wednesday when police opened fire on demonstrations in Bosaso, they said.

Ports Minister Said Mohamed Raage said by phone on Thursday that a change in tariffs had resulted in “some complications” at the port, without providing further details. Three calls to Defense Ministry spokesman Mohamed Mohamed Gubadle’s mobile phone didn’t connect.

Last month, a committee of elders in Puntland filed a request in the region’s Supreme Court asking that the concession be either renegotiated or annulled. The application, submitted on Oct. 1 by lawyer Mohammed Awad Omar and sent to Bloomberg by the Old Bosaso City Elders & Intellectuals Committee, argued that the secrecy of the terms of the agreement rendered it null and void.


“We urge P&O Ports to stop the implementation of this disputed concession agreement altogether and save yourselves and Puntland from protracted quarrel and legal battles,” the committee said in an Oct. 6 letter to DP World Chairman Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem. The court petition seeks to have the port development project relocated at least 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Old Bosasso City, arguing the agreement violates Puntland land acquisition laws.

P&O Ports signed a “legal concession agreement with the elected government of Puntland in accordance with U.K. law,” the company said in an emailed response to questions. “We suggest the allegations are formally addressed to the legally elected and recognized government.”

Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and his office didn’t respond to emailed requests for comment on the allegations.

Situation is deterioting very fast . Sad.

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

draco not for Paul he is threatening to put elders into foreign prisons. Here he is enjoying a meal with his family in Rome

 

[Saahid Qamaan]

Take all the ships 20 miles from the my port or else I will imprison elders in a foreign jail as I already hit one of them over the head

Paul A. Formosa
Nov. 2017