Today I would like to comment on an interview by Mr. Mahiga U.N
Special Envoy for Somalia.The interview was on Sunday ( March 04 2012)
at the Somali service of the BBC..In that now infamous interview Mr.
Mahiga says” that the group of the Ahlu-Scek controls the presidency
and are blocking any effort to have real process”First let me explain
that the Amb. Mahiga is not an impartial broker in the Somali politics
but he is associated and linked with the the President,the speaker and
the "Gang of Six " which are the signatories of the Garowe Principles I
& II. Somalia is in a transition from the regime of Mbaghabati
.Nairobi of 2004( when the transitional government mandate started) and
the new groupings from the Djibouti accord added to it in 2009 to a new
process that will take this government mandate expire in August 2012.
More to that lately the international community.Turkey and the Arab
community have shown more interest in Somalia than the "business as
usual "approach which Ethiopia and IGAD were the only regional powers
running the show of "installing puppet leaders" as ruling elites. Plus
the recent conference in London of 23 February which have really
internationalized the Somali issues. Ambassador Mahiga is addressing all
those groups and is indirectly saying that in the government there are
two groups: the group co opted in Nairobi of 2004 and the group of the
Islamist which have been added to them in 2009 from the Djibouti accord
of 2009..He is also addressing the international community and the
Somali domestic audience by supplying with them a false "information"
which is all part of the "deception plans" of Ethiopia and IGAD. Why
Mahiga is lying and why there is this "deception plan"? To answer to
this questions we have to go back into the history of Somalia.
From 2006 till 2009 Somalia was under military occupation from Ethiopia which was fighting the Union of the Islamic courts, an Islamist political and military movement which compromised of JIhadist and moderate and took over almost all of South Somalia.The Islamist where defeated and the moderate within them has been made part of the next government thanks to what we call the Djibouti Accord of 2009.This president Sharif and his group which were part of the Union of Islamic Courts joined the government. Unfortunately the main group of the moderate Islamist only person remaining in the government is the President Sharif. All the the prominent personalities which were Ministers have been sacked and made redundant after one year of the Djibouti accord. The main ideological agenda to have representatives of the Islamist who abhor terror in government and in the political conversation has been abolished and vanished after almost one year.The two more prominent figures after the President Mr. Caddow a distinguished scholar and Islamist was assassinated while he was Minister in Mogadishu and the other Minister for internal security ,a nationalist but allied to those groups was also assassinated in Beled-weine cental region Of Hiiraan.This two Ministers were killed by Al-Shabaab but you wonder how the most important figures in government could be so easily killed while their government is watching.My humble opinion is the Intelligence services of Ethiopia and the Warlord-drug-barons and the All-ittixad business Cartels are all involved.
Coming back to Mahiga interview the main aim is to tell the whole world and Somalis that the Islamist are in power and there is not any need to have further reconciliation with Islamist who accept Rule of Law, participatory democracy and are against terror.There is not also the need to have "a conversation" with the Islamist groups in the Somali society.Why Mahiga is taking this line of action? What interests he is defending?
Ambassador Mahiga like any other person which is not Somali will note care about Somalis if the "puppet ruling elites " do not care about their country.Secondly there is not any check and balance in the Media or so-called Civil Society which have all been co-opted De-facto in the regime or paid huge sums of money.The few Journalist who dared to came against this "rapacious-criminal puppet Elites" allied with Ethiopia have been killed in broad daylight in Mogadishu.Just for the last two months two journalist have been killed.
What is at play is a convergence of interests and alliance between the Ethiopians ,IGAD and the Somali Warlords-Drug-barons,puppet parliamentarians and those who control at least 70% of the Somali Economy the ALL-Ittixad business Cartels.This alliance between foreign powers and Somali corrupt political-economical Elites would like to have one of the "Gang of Six" which is made of the President, Speaker,Prime Minister,and the Chieftains of Punt land,Galmudug and Ahlu-Sunna Waljameeca of Cabuud-Waak and Guriceel districts.
There is not any group called Ahlu-Shek in government and the name has been borrowed by an Islamist group which used to exist in the 70" and was Lead by the famous Shek Mohamed Moallin and after his dead the group dissolved.
I would like to conclude that the Somali tragedy is exacerbated by the regional powers which are all trying to control Somalia for political hegemony and the Huge quantities of Oil and gas which are on-shore and off-shore .Wait and see..
From 2006 till 2009 Somalia was under military occupation from Ethiopia which was fighting the Union of the Islamic courts, an Islamist political and military movement which compromised of JIhadist and moderate and took over almost all of South Somalia.The Islamist where defeated and the moderate within them has been made part of the next government thanks to what we call the Djibouti Accord of 2009.This president Sharif and his group which were part of the Union of Islamic Courts joined the government. Unfortunately the main group of the moderate Islamist only person remaining in the government is the President Sharif. All the the prominent personalities which were Ministers have been sacked and made redundant after one year of the Djibouti accord. The main ideological agenda to have representatives of the Islamist who abhor terror in government and in the political conversation has been abolished and vanished after almost one year.The two more prominent figures after the President Mr. Caddow a distinguished scholar and Islamist was assassinated while he was Minister in Mogadishu and the other Minister for internal security ,a nationalist but allied to those groups was also assassinated in Beled-weine cental region Of Hiiraan.This two Ministers were killed by Al-Shabaab but you wonder how the most important figures in government could be so easily killed while their government is watching.My humble opinion is the Intelligence services of Ethiopia and the Warlord-drug-barons and the All-ittixad business Cartels are all involved.
Coming back to Mahiga interview the main aim is to tell the whole world and Somalis that the Islamist are in power and there is not any need to have further reconciliation with Islamist who accept Rule of Law, participatory democracy and are against terror.There is not also the need to have "a conversation" with the Islamist groups in the Somali society.Why Mahiga is taking this line of action? What interests he is defending?
Ambassador Mahiga like any other person which is not Somali will note care about Somalis if the "puppet ruling elites " do not care about their country.Secondly there is not any check and balance in the Media or so-called Civil Society which have all been co-opted De-facto in the regime or paid huge sums of money.The few Journalist who dared to came against this "rapacious-criminal puppet Elites" allied with Ethiopia have been killed in broad daylight in Mogadishu.Just for the last two months two journalist have been killed.
What is at play is a convergence of interests and alliance between the Ethiopians ,IGAD and the Somali Warlords-Drug-barons,puppet parliamentarians and those who control at least 70% of the Somali Economy the ALL-Ittixad business Cartels.This alliance between foreign powers and Somali corrupt political-economical Elites would like to have one of the "Gang of Six" which is made of the President, Speaker,Prime Minister,and the Chieftains of Punt land,Galmudug and Ahlu-Sunna Waljameeca of Cabuud-Waak and Guriceel districts.
There is not any group called Ahlu-Shek in government and the name has been borrowed by an Islamist group which used to exist in the 70" and was Lead by the famous Shek Mohamed Moallin and after his dead the group dissolved.
I would like to conclude that the Somali tragedy is exacerbated by the regional powers which are all trying to control Somalia for political hegemony and the Huge quantities of Oil and gas which are on-shore and off-shore .Wait and see..
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