Unqualified, uneducated, uncivilized, unpopular, unpatriotic, and inexperienced individuals have been entrusted to lead Somalia’s political and economical affairs by foreign hands. Worse, as the foreigners impose such kind of puppet governments one after another; they leave them helpless, hapless and hopeless purposefully in a mockery way. These unqualified persons enjoy the support of the corruptive warlords, political spoilers and political brokers who also relay on foreign hands of illegal interferences. An apparent question is ‘what is the interest of the foreign meddlers”? Intellectuals and academicians talk about their interests in the Somalia’s natural resources that underlie its land, sea and air.

In this theme, I would investigate one more interest; ‘loosening and then losing the dignity of the Somalis in general”. Before I down track to the latter concern, let me analyze one of the strategies used by foreigners to bog-down Somalia’s dignity, economy, humanity, and existence. Finally, the imposed governments exercise maladministration turning to lack of administration, while its leaders may perform nothing, but arrogance, super-ego, snooty, selfishness, self-willing, greediness, and several other bathetic forms of bad qualities. The main aim of doing so is to demonstrate and prove practically that Somalis are dam, deaf, dull, and extremists by nature. Obviously, this trap has been fashioned since the explicit boy-cot against the Arta’s peace process in 2000, and, a way back, the UNOSOM’s initial strategies of good hope in 1993.

Since the Arta Reconciliation Conference in 2000, Somalia has been experiencing bad governance to worst governance to lack of governance. Art’s administration was terminated by two major menaces; external and internal. The latter was emerged by none but its own leader – AbdiQasim who devoted to practicing arrogance, snooty and greediness. “The President says so and so...” was among his famous verbal words that he frequently stated broadly and arrogantly in his speeches and conversations.

Yet, he was not portraying any of his presidential responsibilities, but selfishness instead, by collecting the donated cashes into his personal treasury. In terms of the Cabinet, I remember my friends and myself (a Director General at the time) making fun of certain Ministers and other Senior Officers who signed the voucher of the first and the last salary they received with their thumps, a DNA system, simply because they were illiterate. Even though we can state that AbdiQasim had destroyed the glimmer of hopes and the morals of the Somalis who are recovering from more than a decade of ravaged civil war, that TNG was much better than its successors.

No doubt, AbdiQasim had demoralized the civilians to the extent that they lost their trust in government and expectation to good governance for good. Similarly, he planted further diseases of money grafting into the minds of those who tussle for power – warlords and opportunistic individuals. Yet, this transitional government was still acceptable and satisfactory compared to those who abrogated her.

In 2004, an organized group of mercenaries who openly acted as puppets were imposed by Ethiopia to rule the country, and they aggressively waged a proxy war against the poor Somali civilians. This group was widely known as “the Government of the gangs/mafias and mercenaries”. They themselves were imperative and answerable to the Ethiopian junior Colonel known as Gabre who physically slapped the group’s president “Abdullahi Yusuf” after the latter failed to execute some difficult orders.

Worse, a kind of governmental skeleton consisted of inexperienced and less or uneducated members has been formed in Djibouti in 2009. Although there have been members with clean hearts in this so-called administration, corruptive individuals overwhelmed all forms of good deeds. The first embarrassment and historic criminal act they committed was that Kenyan senior politicians convinced them to handover the most important part of Somalia’s seawaters; over a thousand miles of continental shelf, which is rich of oil, gas, marine mammals, and minerals. Among the main points of the compromise between the two signatories were:

Kenya shall collect Somalia’s share of tariff (income tax) from the drug known as Qad imported to Mogadishu from Nairobi before it has been airlifted from Wilson Airport, Nairobi.

Kenya shall support Somalia’s TFG in combating piracy and terrorist activities

Kenya shall issue entry visas to Somali Officials flying to Nairobi

D. In return, Somalia shall sign the known Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that allows Kenya to sow a new dispute over marine boundaries between Somalia and Kenya out of the blue.

Kenya dared to do so, because they know that Somali Officials cannot understand the norms of bi-lateral agreements even if they understand the terms of the agreement. On top of that, they know that those who signed the MoU on behalf of Somalia have never been in seashore for swimming and leisure, leave alone to be experts in marine science, IMO’s Law – UNCLOS, international relations, diplomacy, etc. Believe or not among all those who involved in this historic horrific harm to Somalia, none have ever entered into government office seeking service, before they were appointed as Executives, leave alone to serve or understand what governmental administration is all about.

To name them personally start from Sheikh Sharif, Sharif Hassan, Abukar Mardadi, Omar Sharmake, Abdirahman Abdishukur (some may argue that the latter two have been in school, albeit irregularly, but one must comprehend that there is a big difference between theoretical learning and practical working in the field). Abdirahman Ibbi is the only one who stepped with Barre’s regime, but acted as a member of the Scientific Socialism Party (Xisbi). It is well known that the Party’s members were indoctrinated into merely “talkativeness” and “mobilization” (kicinta iyo abaabulka bulshada).

Addressing the President of the TFG, Sheikh Sharif, he is really uneducated and inexperienced person. If one tries to write or narrate his biography, one finds nothing – NIL. Many may argue that he completed university, but none can prove so. Many may argue that he speaks one of the United Nation’s official languages – Arabic, but any Arabic speaking person can disapprove so if listened to his Presidential Speech at the UN headquarter, New York in early 2010. Even though the speech was obviously prepared by somebody other than the president, the president had a time for rehearsal; yet, he failed to read the paper correctly.

I think everybody remembers when Sharif Hassan was asked to read the announcement of Abdulahi Yusuf’s presidency in Af Somali language, and he failed to read it correctly. Above all that, what triggers Somalia’s complex problems is simply out of self-willingness, bigheadedness and arrogance. That is the main hindrance to our security, stability, and restoration of any branch of basic services. In contrast to that, we see our self-styled leaders engaging in; money grafting, corruption, nepotism, and back and front travels to overseas (because they are new to fly). No doubt, we all know that our so-called government ministers are not capable in running the offices they are being entrusted to administer.

As a result, so far none of them has an office, leave alone to re-establish the ministry that he is being appointed to run. They spend their days in standing in front of the Prime Minister’s office, the President’s office, and the Speaker’s office – the only three offices operate in the country. In terms of irresponsibility and wilderness, the international media caught last week the Senior Government Officers having a physical fight over a plate of food in the presidential palace -villa Somalia as they were waiting for the Independence Day celebration.

In short, whether international community ignores or undermines, the reality is that dam and dull persons can neither help themselves nor their posses. Perhaps, they should try now the new energetic blood Somalis who have the necessary qualifications to lead this nation. They could form a structure of government containing well qualified individuals and bring them into the country with the help of the United Nations. In order to pave the path for change, they should remove both psychologically and physically the current warlords, none-qualified, inexperienced, old fashioned mentalities, political brokers, and known puppet individuals.

Dr. Qasim H. Farah, E-mail: qaasim@mail.com
THE OUTCOME OF THE INEXPERIENCED GOVERNMENTS IN SOMALIA

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