WDM EDITORIAL | WAPMEN

Federal President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has reached the end of the road—politically, morally, and constitutionally. As his term drifts into twilight, what remains is not a legacy of statesmanship but a trail of institutional vandalism, constitutional abuse, and calculated contempt for Somalia’s fragile federal order. History will not remember this period kindly. It will remember it as a squandered mandate and an ignoble exit.
And then there is Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur (Madoobe)—a name that will sit uncomfortably in the annals of Somali parliamentary history. What unfolded in the House yesterday was not merely a procedural embarrassment; it was a rupture in governance that paradoxically signaled a flicker of hope. For once, the charade cracked. For once, Somalia glimpsed that all is not entirely lost.
From Victimhood to Complicity
There was a time—at the darkest height of the civil war—when Mogadishu and Hargeysa converged in hostility toward the very existence of the Darood. In a cruel twist of fate, one of the war’s victims, the Digil & Mirifle, now finds itself represented by a Speaker who has enlisted among the perpetrators of institutional decay. Sheikh Adan Madoobe has crossed a moral Rubicon: from victimhood to complicity, from representation to betrayal.
This is not a matter of clan; it is a matter of conscience. A Speaker is meant to be the custodian of procedure, the referee of debate, the guardian of the Constitution. Instead, Somalia has endured a Speaker with no moral compass, no adherence to Islamic principles of justice, and no respect for legislative norms. The House has been reduced to a rubber stamp; debate to an inconvenience; quorum to an afterthought.
Parliament as a Theatre of Abuse
Under Sheikh Adan Madoobe, the Federal Parliament has been weaponized to execute Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s bidding—often in open defiance of the Provisional Constitution. Agendas appear without notice. Votes are proclaimed amid fistfights. Quorum is treated as optional. Parliamentary protocol is mocked. This is not governance; it is spectacle—dangerous, corrosive spectacle.
The irony is painful. Even Sharif Hassan (Sharif Sakiin)—long criticized for compromise and accommodation—now appears, by comparison, as a figure of restraint and procedural decency. That is how low the bar has fallen.
A Dangerous Convergence
Together, HSM and Sheikh Adan Madoobe represent a dangerous convergence: an executive bent on power consolidation and a legislature stripped of independence. The result is a steady march back to square one—toward renewed polarization, constitutional breakdown, and the normalization of political violence.
Yesterday’s rupture in Parliament matters because it broke the illusion. It reminded Somalis that institutions still contain individuals willing to resist, to object, to disrupt the choreography of abuse. That resistance must now be sharpened, organized, and constitutional.
The Necessary Line
There is only one responsible course left: Sheikh Adan Madoobe must be stopped and impeached. Not out of vendetta, but out of necessity. Not to settle scores, but to salvage the republic. If this is not done, Somalia risks repeating the oldest and most tragic of its cycles—where leaders confuse power with entitlement and institutions with personal property.
Somalia stands at the edge. The twilight of a failed presidency does not have to become the darkness of another collapse. But only if the rot is confronted—openly, decisively, and now.

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