Day: July 10, 2019

DO YOU RECALL THESE PHOTOS OF CHINSESE PORT, AIRPORT AND ROAD ENGINEERS AT GARA’AD PORT SITE IN AUGUST 24, 2008?

The new GARA’AD Port site is exactly located in the spot assessed at that time. Former Puntland Administration of General Cadde had no political will to go ahead with the construction of GARA’AD Port. The project had a construction component of a Galdogob-Gara’ad Road, passing through the City of Galkayo ( see the red soil of Galdogob in one of the photos).

Later, the Somali Ambassador to China, Amb. Mohamed Awil, had paid a heavy career price for lobbying and bringing in Chinese engineers in Gara’ad in 2008, when the Director General of TFG Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Abdisalam Haji Ahmed Liban (Dabancad)/Habar-Gedir/Indhayar, had accused the Ambassador Awil of favoring Gara’ad instead of Obbia. Dhabancad got the blessing of then Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharma’arke and TFG President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, to fire the Ambassador from his posting to China.

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“FREE PARLIAMENT”, A LOITERING GROUP IN GAROWE HOTELS?”

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July 10, 2019

They are known in Garowe for the misnomer of “FREE PARLIAMENT” (Baarlamaanka Xorta ah). They are mostly retirees, minding only their retirement existence and an old man’s love for evening chat and city gossips. Every evening they gather around a long rectangular table in one of the city hotels to kill the boring passage of their time before they retire to bed at 10 o’clock. They take their break from their most unproductive conversations at Ishaa (evening) prayer, to return to continue the boring sessions at table.

During the entire existence of this informal group in Garowe, they had never produced even a few pages of minutes on a serious topic they had discussed and deliberated. They seem to be devoid of any ideas useful for the society they live in. Yet, they want uncritical old men, idlers and pseudo- professionals to hang on and loiter with them every evening. They are afraid of taking cue from formal standards of the civilised societies to establish professional associations or social clubs, and thus taking up some important societal issues seriously.

Observers of this chatting group said that most these old men are employee-consultants of various private and public organisations, construction industry, and they are not at liberty to join organized civil society entities. The question is, why do they then allow to call themselves a “Free PARLIAMENT”? Obviously, they want to live and operate in the darkness without bringing in and out any ideas to benefit the society.

This is the Baarlamaanka Xorta ah (FREE PARLIAMENT) you hear about in Garowe City.

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DELUSION TURNS INTO HYSTERIA IN SOMALILAND

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For Northwest Regional Aministration (Somaliland), early on, it was seeking a delusional secession and recognition for statehood. Now, with diminishing returns and hitting a dead-end, the delusion turns into hysteria and empty claim of securing some recognition from the most unexpected places like Guinea Conakry, even recognition of Somaliland by municipality of the city of Birmingham in the UK.
The leaders of the Federal Government of Somalia are enjoying with sadistic satisfaction the madness and mental suffering of Somaliland leaders. The victims of this political nightmare are the Somalis in the Regions, whose lives and future were torn apart by lies, indoctrination and false promises of ushering in an independent country called “Somaliland Republic” – a tragedic story of treason and public deception by opportunistic bunch of elitist politicians in Hargeisa, mostly composed of henchmen of the Late Military Dictator, Siyad Barre.
The raging hysterical rhetoric in Hargeisa needs help, not from psychologists and psychatrists, but from spin doctors to calm things down in the Regions.
The recent political noises in Hargeisa, sparked off by ill-advised approach of the FGS to Muse Bihi’s exclusively private trip to Conakry, is a prelude to realization that the solutions to Somali problems lie within Somalis themselves, and no foreign imposition could have a lasting sustainability, even if it could happen in a remote scenario.