At last, in March 1963, it fell to Mr Duncan Sandys, the new British Colonial Secretary, to announce his government's decision. To the satisfaction of the Nairobi and Addis Ababa governments, but to the chagrin of Somalis, this was that the N.F.D. was to be brought into Kenya's regional constitution. A new, predominantly Somali, North-Eastern Region was to be created in which Somalis would enjoy the same degree of local autonomy as had already been accorded elsewhere in Kenya's other six Regions.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 478