Sana'a — Some of the national crew members of the Somali ships in Yemen have Monday said that the vessels are in the brink of destroying.

Barre Sheik Mohamed better known as Barre Dagol, one the national crew of the Somali ships had contacted with Shabelle radio and said that the ships need quick repairing pointing out that if they do not get any repair as soon as possible that they will be ruined.

He said that the numbers of the Somali ships are 7, one of them in the coast of Gara'ad district in Somalia saying that 5 of them are laying in Yemen and need to be repaired.

"Really, the ships are very old to work once again simply so that I would like to tell the Somali people to know that. these are the properties of the Somali people. One of the ships is the coast of the Somalia. It is useless. So that is what I am telling to the Somalia people," said Barre Dogol

On the other hand Barre Dagol said that the money they were working since the collapse of Barre's government was taken over by the transitional government led by president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed confirming that even the workers could not get their wages.

The crewmen said that they also informed the issue to the Yemeni government saying that it ordered to be sold out pointing out that more than 120 Yemeni citizens owing money to the head of ships and disputed which could not be possible even if sold out and then halted later as the crew members were placed to the Somali embassy in Yemen.

The Somali national ships were out of the country since the dictator Mohamed Siad Barre whose government was overthrown in1991 and did not get repairing due to the not stop conflicts between the Somali people which resulted their properties to be lost in the outside.