Day: August 9, 2019

KEESDIIR vs ROBIN HOOD IN BACAADWEYN

By WDM Staff Reporter

Bacaadweyn, Mudugh

August 10, 2019

Mohamud Farah Keesdiir is one of the prominent members of the Somali cimmunity in Zambia. He is one of those elders, who had fled the repression of the military regime of Somalia during the 1980s. He had settled in Zambia as a trucker and grew up to own a fleet of transport vehicles and other small businesses. As an elder, he was always at forefront to help his new immigrant countrymen in Zambia and beyond. He and his colleague businessmen also contributed to both the welfare and settlement of new comers in Zambia and throughout East Africa.

Mohamud Farah Geesdiir came to visit Puntland recently with the intention of attending his immediate family affairs, when he found himself in a dilapidated town of Bacaadweyn near Galkayo in Mudugh Region of Puntland. He was shocked to discover the town of five thousand residents had no police station, had its single police Nissan Hardbody pickup broken, petty criminals rampaged the town, terrorizing residents with nowhere to turn for help. There was no single room to keep a prisoner overnight. The town had no markets to sell goods – meat products and other perishable goods were sold in the open on the side walks, collecting dust and grains of sand, which resulted in sickness and food-poisoning among many of the Bacaadweyn residents. The security, safety of residents and basic hygiene of the town were abysmal and desperate.

That was the situation of Bacaadweyn before the appearance of the New Robin Hood, GEESDIIR, two months ago.The first job GEESDIIR did in Robin Hood style was to quickly erect a four-bedroom home for his poor and desperate relatives in town. He then turned to repair the broken police pickup. He had built a police compound of four room station. He is now moving to build two town marketplaces. But, the most important of all was that he had managed to mobilize youth and women in town to engage in community awareness and activities rarely seen in Puntland towns.

GEESDIIR is the New Robin Hood of Puntland. He has done what an average Puntlander could have never deamed of doing. He had captured the imagination and respect of the residents of BACAADWEYN. He had won the hearts and minds of the youth of Bacaadweyn and respect of all residents.

Congratulations to this great Patriot. He needs all our support.

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Bacadweyn is a town in the north-central Mudug region of Somalia. It is mainly occupied in small-scale farming. It is administered by Puntland State. Secondary schools in the area include Ba’ad Weyn Secondary. Wikipedia
Elevation: 372 m
Weather: 27°C, Wind SW at 31 km/h, 52% Humidity
Local time: Saturday 08:37
District: Galkayo

CORRECTION: An early edition of this post incorrectly named Mohamud Farah Geesdiir.

PUNTLAND,  ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND DUE PROCESS

August 9, 2019

They say that the “hallmarks of free people in any nation are the freedom of the press and independent judiciary”.
Here in Puntland as in the rest of Somalia, the constitutional powers of the legislative, executive and judiciary often got mixed up and melt into each other, losing the relevance of constitutional mandates of checks and balance.
Enough is said about the legislature and executive branches of the government, but little thought and deliberation are paid to the issue of the independence of the judiciary.
In this regard, it is important to remind all citizens that the power to arrest or free a citizen from prison belongs exclusively to a judge in a court of justice- the executive and legislative branches of the government have no role to play here. Even, if the State President pardons someone after court conviction, the power to release that prisoner belongs to a judge, not the President. The government can withdraw its case against an accused, but still that withdrawal must be made publicly in a court of law before a judge. The government cannot make arrest or release anyone without a court order. The State President cannot arrest or release anybody without a court order. In the absence of flagrant crime, no one can lose his/her freedom without a court order. No attorney-general, no police officer, no minister can order the arrest of any person without obtaining a warrant of arrest from the court first. These are all consistent with the laws of Puntland and its Constitution. Make no mistake, even the President of Puntland couldn’t order the arrest of someone without securing a court order first to avoid violating the law of the land himself or herself. Any politician cought influencing a court decision or procedures is guilty of a crime.

Unlawful arrests can be litigated in court of justice anywhere in the world through a lawyer.

All officers receiving executive orders to take away the freedom of someone, not cought in flagrant violation of the law, must demand that order to be issued in writing to produce the document in a court of justice in order to defend themselves.
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