ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL

WDM EDITORIAL

It is really true that if your home is broken, your politics is broken too and misguided for “all roads lead to Rome,” as they say. Treaties and international exposure of a country are meaningless when your people are divided, hungry, and sick at home. When a nation is consumed by corruption, nepotism, and disillusionment and you are not doing anything about it, it is fair to say you are a total failure. The only honourable thing to do in that case is to vacate the seat of power. In the case of Somalia, what is needed urgently is more than governance and political reforms. Somalia needs radical socio-economic changes impossible to achieve under the status quo.

To start with, we need urgent national reconciliation and fostering unity. We need to drop the mentality of “my way or the highway” at every level of the national government (FGS & FMS). Let us stop the political frictions within our governance system. The FGS must provide leadership at home front before wasting millions of dollars of our meagre financial resources for photo opps overseas. Attending every world event while your country and its population are suffering and in bad shape is not only moral bankrupt and irresponsible but also constitutes a criminal negligence.

To meet foreign and domestic challenges requires unity of people and purpose. It is self-explanatory, and there is no other way to put it. It is really that simple.

To the supporters of Federal President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and the rest of the pack in the FMS with divisive policies at home, shame on you, for you are sacrificing your country to the wolf, when you continue to live with the political shenanigans of the current national and regional leaderships in Somalia.