Clearly our journalists are bogus. Zero research was done here

Western commercial oil exploration in disputed areas of Somalia and discrepancies over which authorities can issue licenses to companies could spark further conflict in the African nation, U.N. monitors warned in a confidential report.
In the U.N. Monitoring Group's latest annual report to the Security Council's sanctions committee on Somalia and Eritrea, the experts said the Somali constitution gives considerable autonomy to regional governments to enter commercial oil deals.
But a petroleum law that has not yet been adopted by the country's parliament but is being invoked by federal officials in the capital Mogadishu says that the central government can distribute natural resources.
http://www.trust.org/item/20130717045958-o906u

The headlines have started competing for attention - rare earth metals vs hydrocarbons...

http://www.theeastafrica.../-/r128daz/-/index.html

and you wonder where "Pwani Si Kenya " nonesense came from

No need to read anything sinister.
It was not for Kiraitu to deem it non commercial. It is for the explorers to deem it thus and then inform Kiraitu to make the statement. These companies are focussed on maximising shareholder returns and would not miss any opportunity for that. Pancontinental fell 50p.c. on that day.
Non commercial hydrocarbons are encountered frequently. Govt. should focus on that already considered commercial.