the leaders of 5 semi autonomous states being unable to agree on how voting should be conducted catherine sorry joins us now live in nairobi and what's been the reaction to this announcement in somalia catherine. well the president signed to load this motion last night and this in itself is quite problematic because what's ideally supposed to happen according to the lowe is that once a motion is passed by the lower house it has to be forwarded to the upper house to the senate for approval or rejection and we already know from the speaker of the senate that the senate rejects any extension with the speaker saying that it is unconstitutional so a lot of people are going to come out and say what the president has done in itself is not legal there has been a lot of reaction towards this things are moving very quickly we've had from a coalition of opposition presidential candidate and some leaders of the federal states particularly jubilant and point land who have also rejected any decision to extend the president's star move also. from key international donors to somalia the u.k. the u.s. and the e

you know my name is catherine sorry i'm a correspondent based here in kenya i mostly cover east and central africa good to have to you now this is not the 1st time that kenya has demanded that refugee camp speak close let me take you back to the minister of interior in 2016 have a look. i want to reform the word. that the decision to come. interior in kenya says we've given you 2 weeks united nations u.n. aid which is the u.n. agency that takes care of refugees give me 2 weeks to come up with a plan caffrey how come we are revisiting this story again this situation again the minister of interior 2016 said this is final the camps are closing. now well it's not quite it it's not quite fine or let me just start by saying that this matar is now in court there was a party that was filed and the judge put an injunction on the government from doing anything on the comes into the case is hard in a month's time so the genesis of this spammy as you mentioned is this announcement by the interior cabinet secretary in march giving the unit c.r. and all to me time to come up with a report and the units y