WDM PRESS STATEMENT

Some people in the Somali media outlets are worried by statements of Western diplomats invited to attend the inauguration of the newly elected president of Somaliland, Abdirahman Cirro, in Hargheisa. They should know that Somaliland can’t be a viable nation-state because of the facts that

1. It lacks resources of any kind, including manpower.
2. It is another begging basket without returns to its foreign supporters.
3. It can only act as a foreign military and naval base. So is Djibouti nearby. That isn’t the would-be independence it is seeking.
4. It can’t provide employment opportunities to its own residents.
5. It has no space for business and trade interests to its residents, to forget about someone else.
6. The entity of Somaliland merely exists because of the Mogadishu/Hawiye problem in Somalia. What other choice do they have?
7. Western diplomats people were quoting from Hargheisa are just frustrated with Villa Somalia. Remember, they met with Hassan Sheikh Mohamud recently to warn him of Jubaland attack plan, and he didn’t heed their advice. They are fed up with his idiotic one-man show policy and mal-administration. Their statements in Hargheisa are pressure tactics only, but not an implicit support for Somaliland’s call for unitaleral independence, which doesn’t have any economic and political sense. It is a pipe dream for Hargeisa fanatics taking advantage of misinformed and misguided society there.
8. Historically, Somaliland British Protectorate was a meat supply base for British military garrison stationed that time in Aden, Yemen. It was prohibitively expensive for Great Britain to stay on in Somaliland.