WDM EDITORIAL
Leaders of the Federal Somali Government have yet to understand that Somalia is a failed state and will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. And, as long as its leaders, at all levels, behave the way they do, avoiding national reconciliation and concerted efforts towards national unity, the survival of Somalia as a nation-state is perilously in doubt.
The head of Villa Somalia doesn’t get that obvious fact yet- he has engaged in unilateral amendment of the provisional Constitution, and now he is talking about a pipe dream of holding general elections, where swathes of South-Central Somalia are under the full control of extremist Al-Ashabab movement, Somaliland declared secession, Puntland and Jubaland states are in loggerheads with Mogadishu failing administration. Holding one-person One-Vote election in South-Central Somalia isn’t going to happen any time soon. One could say that it is easier for Al-Shabab to hold an election than President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s government in Southern Somalia. He doesn’t fathom that the forces tearing Somalia apart are stronger than those binding it together like the Federal Constitution he is tampering with. He doesn’t get. He isn’t real.
General elections can take place only in the areas of Somali administrations of Puntland and Somaliland, and even those entities have challenges to run elections smoothly. Don’t mislead and misinform Somalia’s International Partners, for Somalis know the reality on the ground. Somalis aren’t the rubber-stamped Federal House of Parliament in Mogadishu. Keep using these MPs for approval of unilateral bills, but know nothing will happen, and your effort will remain a pipe dream.
Warsame Policy & Media Network (WAPMEN) 