Mogadishu (PP Commentary) — When the President of Jubaland State, Ahmed Mohamed Islam, left Mogadishu after disagreements over the electoral mannequin for 2026, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud flew to Nairobi for a summit with William Ruto, the President of Kenya. The one-sided agenda centred on a request to Kenya to use stress on the Jubaland President to return to Mogadishu and delay Jubaland’s presidential elections.
Kenya responded to the request from Villa Somalia by sending a three-member delegation composed of distant kin of the Jubaland President to Kismaayo. The Jubaland President cited an electoral precedent, noting that Jubaland held its elections in 2012 and 2019. Villa Somalia opposed each elections however did not undermine the Jubaland electoral course of.
Earlier this 12 months, the Jubaland President agreed to the recommended electoral mannequin and amendments to the provisional federal structure. There was a typical understanding amongst members of the Nationwide Consultative Council that one particular person, one vote elections would happen in Somalia with out the participation of Puntland State of Somalia and the Somaliland administration.
The rift between the Jubaland President and Villa Somalia has rendered Prime Minister Hamze Barre a lame duck. His former supporters in Mogadishu are actually calling for his resignation, accusing him of alienating each Jubaland and Puntland. Hamze had deliberate to go to Kismaayo in defiance of the Jubaland administration. Villa Somalia is desperate to see Hamze assume a task just like that of Barre Hirale, a former warlord who ignited battle in Kismaayo in 2013 with help from the Federal Authorities of Somalia.
Kenya chosen envoys from its Northeastern area to steer the Jubaland President to endorse the political programme of the present Somalia President, who has usurped the powers of the Prime Minister he had chosen for long-standing loyalty courting again to 2004. Mockingly, Hamze was defending Jubaland’s electoral independence in 2019 when he was Chairman of the Jubaland Electoral Fee. When President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was elected in 2022, the Jubaland President submitted Hamze’s title as Jubaland’s candidate for the premiership.
The mediation supplied by Kenya to defuse the strain between Jubaland and Villa Somalia displays the Machiavellian nature of the Damuljadiid Islamist clique, who use faith as a method to achieve political objectives that undermine the sovereignty of Somalia. The one acceptable path to political stability in Somalia is for Prime Minister Hamze Barre to resign.
© Puntland Publish, 2024
