OP-ED: FOND OF WORKING UNDER THE TABLE

When concern for public trust and transparency lose meaning and significance, the operator in the darkness is unrestrained for all sorts of underhand activities. This looks like what is happening with Farmajo lately. He is unresponsive to public concerns about the latest developments in relation to Kenya’s attempts and diplomatic offensive to take advantage of his political weakness as he loses constitutional legitimacy of being a genuine Somali President. In fact, Kenya is more transparent and forthcoming now than Somalia with regards to latest information on the maritime dispute with Somalia. The heavily deducted document above and a number of other Kenyan notifications, quoting Somali sources, have created more public mistrust and concern on what the Federal Government of Somalia is doing in the darkness and behind closed doors (recall Qalbi-Dhagax case).
General public opinion is now forming in Somalia that Farmajo will not be ever trusted again in a position of responsibility and public office, mainly due to his disregard for the rule of law, running of public duties in secret fashion and betrayal of traditional Somali values of consensus-building in resolving conflicts and running public affairs in transparent manners.