Mogadishu (PP Editorial) — The Somalia Auditor Normal Ahmed Isse Gutaale claimed at the moment that cash generated from the alleged sale of two former Somali Nationwide Military barracks in Galka’yo had been invested within the development of Garacad Port in North Mudug. Guutaale lives within the capital metropolis the place members of his subclan have since 1991 been occupying private and non-private properties. The historical past of 1991 Mogadishu may be summed as a politically motivated dispossession of residents by clan militias mobilised within the identify of United Somali Congress.
Guutaale’s correct title ought to have been the Theft Protector Normal of Somalia. A complete technology of Somalis in Mogadishu has come of age residing in stolen properties and in a capital metropolis the place a brand new u dhashay (belonging to by dint of sustaining armed clan militias) mantra slightly than ku dhashay (born in) reigns, the place u dhashay relies on the dispossession narrative of USC.
As professor Abdi Ismail Samatar informed a Minnesota-based Somali TV station not too long ago, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, then a Presidential Candidate in 2021, stated to Samatar:” Don’t insult my metropolis”. This flippant response was triggered by Samatar’s touch upon the state of Mogadishu streets when the Professor’s entourage was travelling to President Hassan’s residence.
What we have now in Somalia is a federal authorities that’s ideologically defending the legacy of dispossession and man-made famines of the Nineties. The ethical vacuum is made worse by the silence of the Mogadishu clergy often known as the Council of Spiritual Males who come throughout as detached to the plight of Somalis whose properties have been dispossessed by subclans who declare Mogadishu to be their stronghold. Greater than 90% of presidency buildings (colleges/ neighbourhood workplaces, navy barracks, fairgrounds, and many others) are occupied by individuals protected by their highly effective clan militias. A bit introspection may have prevented the so-called auditor basic from making absurd claims about Garacad Port.
Individuals of Puntland State of Somalia have been far too lengthy affected person within the hope of seeing a brand new technology of politicians from Mogadishu who may rise above the darkish historical past of Nineties and honour the property rights of Somali residents whom USC militias dispossessed after the autumn of the navy regime in 1991. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is taking steps to revive the Nineties civil conflict. He forgets who will likely be judged on how he secures the arrogance of his fellow residents. If he interprets his presidential duties as a chance to counterpoint his hangers-on and defend ill-gotten positive factors, he will likely be remembered as a pacesetter far worse than the Nineties looters who lowered Mogadishu to fiefdoms of armed clan militias.
© Puntland Publish, 2023
