Somaliland is in a government created serious crises

Ibrahim Mead
Ottawa, Canada
Introduction
When we are united we prosper and we prevail and we become strong.
When we are divided we fail, we fumble and we become weak.
When that is the case, it is natural that we expect from any Moral
and conscientious leader to avoid dividing his people for his own
(sinister) political agenda but instead strife for the unity and
harmony of his people. United we are some thing. Divided, we are
nothing and Somaliland is wounded and divided by her leadership now!
When people are elected they are expected not to stand up there and
say I am some thing! They are expected to do some thing (good) for
their people and their country.
In Somaliland, unfortunately the former is the case. The point is
that they don’t intend not to do some thing for the country but they
don’t know how to do it! That means most of them are not qualified
for the national job entrusted to them. Some are out right sinister.
When a government is visionary, honesty, clean and accountable to
their people who elected them precisely for that reason it becomes a
successful administration that works for the people and the country
and executes the nation’s agenda in the right way.
However when a government is corrupt and made corruption part of the
culture of their administration, when a government is not honesty or
did not demonstrate that, when a government spends a lot of money to
divide and further divide communities, that entity is not working
for the interest of their nation. That entity is an oligarchy
enterprise. Unfortunately the government of Somaliland demonstrated
all that to day! That is what is happening in the local front in
Somaliland nowadays!
In the foreign front, I wonder, why Mr. Siilanyo and his disgusted,
and distrusted administration often tell us that “the British
Government told them this or that?
Who are they accountable to!? Are they accountable to Britain or are
they accountable to the people of Somaliland!? If they are
accountable to the people and the country of Somaliland they better
stop this nonsense. They tell the people that the British is
pressuring them for this or for that! No one can pressure an honest
responsible leader to abandon the bottom line of his people. It is
the people’s desire and aspirations that has to be protected.
They tell the people “The British is compelling them to do what the
people of Somaliland do not want, which is to capitulate and give up
the independence of Somaliland which is a no-go zone and a
sacrosanct to the soul and the flesh of every honest Somalilanders
every where.
Is the British telling us, as the government is saying to
delegitimize our Referendum the people of Somaliland democratically
voted for and ratified thereafter!?
Is that what the British is truly saying to the Somaliland
government as they tell us that is the case!?” Besides, where was
Britain when the people of Somaliland were fighting for their
existence and the existence of their country-Somaliland?
Where were they when millions died for and hundreds of millions of
dollars were robbed? Where was every body when ethnic cleansing was
the call of Siyad Barre’s rule? Where was every body when Somalia
was untied behind the ethnic cleansing scheme of Barre’s Military
government against the people of Somaliland?
I don’t believe Britain or any other democratic government would
pressure any body to overturn and dismiss the wishes, aspirations
and determination of their people!
It was just yesterday when the British Prime Minister was telling
Argentina and the world that it is up to the people of the Falk
Islands to determine their future and the prime Minister reiterated
that no one else has the right to deny that right for these people.
And for any other people, for that matter, I may add. Who is playing
the evil game here!?
Our independence was won with blood and treasure and it is not
negotiable, it is not for sale. Merchants who benefited from the
people of Somaliland must not undermine the aspirations of
Somalilanders for further more profits! No body whether it is this
government or any other government has no mandate to negate or
reverse or delegitimize in one form or the other with what the
people of Somaliland determined and voted for it in a popular
referendum, which is the independence of Somaliland, period!
Why the government is doing these undesirable acts?
Siilanyo and his crowd ushered Somaliland into a vicious circle, the
circle of evil (fee daairatu suu- walciyaadu billaah). What is
happening in Somaliland is incredible! Tragedies, trials and
troubles bordering deception happened one after the other until it
became part of the norm in the government of Somaliland leading by
Mr. Siilanyo and clique! What is the vision if any of this
government? How is their mental state, Are they:
a) Delusional
b) Do they think the people are idiots?
c) Are they out of it as far as governing is concerned?
d) Are they under the control of their greed for most of them are
belly-and-brocket people
e) Are they saboteurs undermining the Somaliland hopes and
aspirations which is her sovereignty and independence? (Somaliland
has been already tarnished and weakened.)
President Siilanyo invited some elders with ‘sultan’ titles seeking
their help in this serious situation emanated from the fraudulent
election. The next day his foreign affairs secretary and himself
declared that the election the government organized were fair,
transparent, and legitimate and as a result they sent self
congratulatory messages to who….!? If every thing was dandy and
great as the ‘due’ claimed, then why did the president summoned so
many sultans and sought their help regarding the instability and
other serious problems caused by the fraudulent and rigged
elections!? It doesn’t add up!
In the case of Zeila municipal dispute, the government of
Mr.Siilanyo went there to mediate between the two contesting groups.
One group is complaining that, their votes were stolen. The
government was proposing that the chairmanship be given to the
victimized group. The other group with the majority elected members
declined the request and resisted the pressure exerted on them. The
question is who caused the rigging and voter Fraud in the first
place? The government is accused as the perpetrator of this shameful
act.
In the end of the day it is the government that created the mess and
it is up to her to solve it. What they are doing and what they are
not doing doesn’t add up, however!
Despite the over whelming proof and countless reports that the last
municipal election held in Somaliland was fraudulent, rigged and out
right sham, yet the oligarchy administration of Mr. Siilanyo is
still insisting and even congratulated each other that the Municipal
elections in Somaliland were fair and successful in its totality. I
think other then themselves, no one else believes that the election
was neither fair, nor transparent. Therefore they are either cruel,
callus or deceptive group with intent to damage the unity, the hopes
and aspirations of Somaliland or if they are not so then they are
delusional or they are out of it all together!
The president and the oligarchies fit in one or more of these nine
categories:
a) that they are delusional and live in a world of fantasy
b) that they believe bribing and the machine gun is the way to
govern
c) that divide and further divide the people and then rule is the
way to run a government
d) that the people are idiots who believe their deceptive and
dishonesty version of events
e) that the mere utterance of “keep the peace” and creating fear is
the other way to go by
f) Or they intentionally create this unstable sinister situation
where no one trusts no, one until the people lost confidence in
perusing their cause in a coherent way!
g) Or they are saboteurs causing civil war where by the two Somali
entities are equalized in this miserable unstable situation. After
that those who were behind this sabotage will say to the innocent
people of Somaliland, “lo, I am clear of you, Lo, it is up to you
now I fear Allah, I am gone!” then they disappear with brief cases
of cash! And that is what Satan says when he succeeds in his ungodly
evil acts after the victims take the bait and it seems that
Somaliland people have taken the bait and the Satan is happy and
then will declare that he is clear of the victims!
h) Or they are innocent people trying their best but don’t know what
is best for the country and what is not!
I) OR is it that we collectively are recipients of the curse of the
spirits of the martyrs who are angry of how the government and the
people together derailed the cause they died for and spent their
life-time savings and property for it. And that is why Somaliland is
where she is now and got what she got! If that is the correct answer
the worse is yet to come!
Those who support Siilanyo’s policy or no policy which has
disseminated Somaliland communities in to fragments of sub-clans ,
who don’t trust each other any more are either clan sentiment
instigated wing-nuts or money chasers with no moral campus or just
ignorant people. Allah told us to support the righteous and reject
the evil doer
“Allah said, “Help ye one another in righteousness and piety, but
help ye not one another in sin and rancour. Fear Allah; for Allah is
strict in punishment”
…so fear Allah and keep straight the relations between your selves
(Al maaidah)
“wa tacaawano calalbiri waltaqawa walatacaawanoo calal ithmi
walcudwaani wa taqullaha inalaaha shadeedul ciqaab”
Peace and prayers for Somaliland for all the time, through thick and
thin
Ibrahim Mead
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