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Somalia Deputy Prime Minister Jibril Abdirashid Haji. [Courtesy]
Last Wednesday an unprecedented diplomatic stand-off took place at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport involving a senior politician from Somalia.
The Horn of Africa’s deputy Prime Minister Jibril Abdirashid Haji landed at JKIA in the afternoon bearing his diplomatic passport complete with a valid visa which should have got him a smooth reception at the immigration desk and onward transport to his hotel or house within Nairobi.
But that was not to be. Haji found himself detained overnight at the Terminal 2 VIP lounge before he was bundled into the first Mogadishu-bound flight at dawn the following day.
