He's speaking about the territorial claim to Maakhir state and who it belongs to. You can claim this land till the cows come home, but won't chance the fact that Badhan, Dhahar, Las Qoray and most of the other warsangeli tuulos have expressed their allegiance to Puntland. If you had any chance in winning this war for eastern sanaag which Somaliland seem to be losing, is to implement more projects like water sanitation, school, hospitals to win the hearts and minds of the locals, something puntland cannot reject since its in the interests of the people living there, if instead you come to eastern sanaag with the hard headed brute mentality in which you claim this land by force, then its going to backfire 100 times over and you'll draw them closer to Puntland. Either way Puntland seem to be controlling this land in the meantime