The title of this EDITORIAL is self-explanatory, and one doesn’t need any description to raise the gravity of this unprecedented abuse of political and security powers in a nation still reeling from civil war and bad governance for a long time. Someone must be held accountable. It is a high national treason and gross breach of public trust. But who will hold these national traitors accountable? There are no national federal parliament, judiciary, and constitution.

Making these public institutions incompetent and toothless is another high national treason that has led to the Ras Cambooni crimes, amidst many other breaches of public trust, including dismantling of the federal system, confrontations with the federal member states, looting of public lands, open corruption and nepotism, contracts and foreign agreements in secret.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh is a man who has never earned the trust of his people. But, he keeps complaining while aggravating his country’s problems. He complains that the Northwest Regions of Somalia signed a memorandum of understanding with Ethiopia and that Ethiopia almost took over the Somali coast in violation of Somali sovereignty and territorial integrity. In the far south of the country, he complains that Ethiopia has delivered huge cache of weapons to Kismayo, Jubaland Administration, and that the region is now under the Ethiopian influence. From Puntland State to the southwest, Hassan Sheikh complains about Ethiopian interference. He doesn’t listen to his people’s ideas on how to get out of the current chaos of his own making. 

Somali people are fed up  and tired of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s political shenanigans. Somalia became a place where people scream, but no one hears them. People are complaining about their pain and suffering under the misrule of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

I really wonder whether Hassan Sheikh could still pretend to continue to rule Somalia.

Ahmed Siad
December 12, 2024