New MP'S ? Maybe a new Era? WAit and see.

                   New MP’s ? Maybe a new Era? 

           Last week was a very different week because a new Somali Parliament was inaugurated on the 20 of August and all news was on  the death of the PM of Ethiopia who was the real Ruler of the Somali Republic. We all know that Somalia has been “  a perpetual failed State” “run by puppet Leaders and Warlords-Drug-barons” for the last twenty years and this thanks to the Ethiopian regimes of Menghiste and Meles Zenawi and the Somali- Wahhabi-Salafist Movement of Al-Ittixad Political movement who later became the I.C.U/Al-Shabaab and its ally The Al-Ittixad business Cartels.

       I will start with the Death of Meles.Let me say more to the Ethiopian Establishment  and Tigre Elites who Rule that country  this was a shock and loss to the Somali Puppet Leaders of Somaliland,Puntland and the TFG incumbent politicians of Mogadishu specially the Incumbent president and the Former speaker of Parliament till August 20.Why? Mr. Meles was the most powerfull politician of the Region and was the one who dictated where the Somali Agenda was going and where will go. Who will be the next president of Somalia and the next Speaker and Prime Minister. He was the man who planned and made implemented the new Somali Constitution ( a concotations of norms which will make Somalia a Confederal State) through the “Somali puppet leaders” and to give you an example made a so-called state a town with less than 5.000 people in the central regions. There was a game plan by the Tigre regime of Ethiopia on who will be the next members of Somali Parliament. The demise of Meles was a Game –Changer at least for some parts.

          Another example of how the late Meles was influencing the Somali Politics was how in Somali talk shows he is  mentioned and there is even a controversy on Who sends a condolences and if that is un-Islamic and against the Somalis. What uproar..

      The other factor which influenced the composition of the Members of the parliament is for the first time the international community which is the paymaster of the Somali TFG , AMISOM and so-called  Somali regional States has requested and got a vetting process in the selection of new MP’s. This new vetting method has denied the Warlords-Drug-barons to be anymore member’s of Somali parliament, some of the Al-Ittixad business Cartels representative and puppet parliamentarians linked to Ethiopia.

       The Somali people-citizens rejoiced for this new bold move which was meant to improve the quality of the parliament and the process to have accountability for the Somali-citizens. Things are not so easy in Somalia. The incumbent president, the former Speaker who are the best allies of the Al-Ittixad business cartels, Warlords-drug barons got so angered that they started threatening the Somalis ,the International community and as usual they manipulated those UNPOS and Amisom representative to tell the world and their Countries namely Uganda that with out the warlords,Al-Ittixad representative and this pro-Ethiopian candidates to be members of parliament  there will be Chaos  and back to civil-wars.

           This warlords-drug-barons which directed,started and fomented the Somali civil wars from 1991 were the individuals the incumbent president was fighting for. Anyway Mr. Mahiga and officers of Amisom have pushed the international community to relent on the Rules and maybe admit as members some criminals-warlords and friends of the incumbent President who are former members of I.C.U allied to al-Shabaab. As  I know from yesterday my estimate is the pro-Ethiopian groups have got 20% to 30% of the members and the all_ittixad almost 15% to 20% of the total members of the parliament with at least 36 members remaining to be nominated.

If we compare to the parliament of Mbaghati, Nairobi of 2004 and the following compromise- parliament of 2009 there is a reasonable change but nobody can be sure till know if they will be influenced of the Old politics of following the Agendas of the All-Ittixad and warlords-Drug-barons,pro-Ethiopians puppet leaders. There are some more enghlitened, intellectuals and democratic individuals than previous parliaments but we still do not know if they will be corrupted and or stand for the rights of Somali people-citizens and the Unity of the Somali Republic.

          Within the selection of the Parliament there was going on the game of the election of the future president and Speaker. The type of the members of the Parliament would decide what type of leaders we will have and what direction the Somali  national politics will take. Already is started the campaigning for the speaker and that  of the President and ugly tactics of Fear-mongering  are being used like if I am not elected there will not be any Somali political process  and Amisom will not be in Mogadishu to fight al-Shabaab. This fear mongering tactics are from the incumbent president, former speaker and the Old pro-Ethiopian puppet leaders and their allies the Warlords-drug barons.

 They are afraid of the new crop of Leaders who are from the Diaspora which have plans to Change the old Status quo and have a Somali not anymore sub-divided in mini-clan enclaves to be  recognized as would be Sovereign States under a new Confedarate State envisioned by the so-called new constitution.

         There is a fierce political warfare going on in Mogadishu at this moment between those who would like to have a new dawn for the Somali Republic and the Somali –people citizens and those of the Old Guard which would like to have the Old status Quo. Who will win? Wait and see.

Written on 25 August 2012.