Saturday, October 4, 2008

Discord among Somaliland´s Elite, as Outcry Rises against the Scandalous Huda Barkhad

By Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis August 23, 2008

What happens if the Vice President of a country has lost his own faith in the country that he has been appointed to serve?
The answer to this question is very simple; soon after, the country gets disintegrated.
This will soon happen to the calamitous pseudo-country ´Somaliland´ that betrayed all Northern Somalis´ rightful desire for peace, progress and national pride.

What else can be expected from a devious country that turned out to be the Somali History´s most shameful abnegation and the worst sample of servility toward the vicious enemies of Somalia, the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic (Tewahedo: heretic) Abyssinians?
I republish here two reports that highlight the disintegration of social, political and moral order in the unrecognized Mafia-ruled pseudo-state of Somaliland. In the second, we remark the gloomy discourse of Ahmed Yusuf Yassin, Somaliland Vice President, a document that underscores the slim chances of the technical entity ´Somaliland´, a mere Abyssinian fabrication, to continue even for a few months.

In the first feature, we get an insightful about the criminal and inhuman activities of Somaliland pseudo-president Rayaale´s mistress, Huda Barkhad, Somalia´s most loathed woman. Her agents attempted to poison and kill Abshir Hassan Hashi, her ex-driver, whom she had closed in a jail, as she is scared to death that he will reveal rich and astounding details of her filthy character, criminal and fraudulent acts, and unmatched personal debauchery.
The world community should react against Hargeysa´s murderous, vicious, and scandalous mistress, and impose the immediate release of Abshir Hassan Hashi whose illegal imprisonment demonstrates perfectly well what sort of bestial gangsters run the Mafia state of Somaliland that nobody bothers to recognize.

The Driver of Huda Barkhad Whisked To Hospital In Critical Condition
http://www.somalilandtoday.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1391
London, 15 August 2008, (Somaliland Today)- The former head of the presidential transport and personal driver of the president´s wife, Abshir Hassan Hashi, who was languishing behind bars in Mandera central prison for the last three months, was rushed to Hargeisa General Hospital in critical condition last night.

Mr. Abshir who is a member of the KULMIYE central committee, the leading Somaliland opposition party, was arrested by Somaliland security forces three months ago. He was subsequently sent to Mandera central prison without being brought to trial before a court of law.
Mr. Abshir who remains in a special ward allocated for Somaliland Custodial Corps is chained to his bed by his feet and is guarded by three armed policemen.
A reporter from the Somali language daily, Geeska Afrika (Horn of Africa) who visited Mr. Abshir at his solitary confinement ward in Hospital has seen that the inmate was not in good physical health and psychological well being.
Mr. Abshir told the reporter that his health had rapidly deteriorated and argued that he was not brought to trial until now but nonetheless was sentenced to two year´s imprisonment by the so-called National Security Committee- an unconstitutional extra-judicial body that operates throughout the country.
" Last night around 12:00 o´clock, I vomited a thick and sticky blood, which splattered out and smeared all over my loincloth [sarong] and bed sheet. I reported the matter to the prison guard, who, in turn, informed his superior. The prison commander, having seen the seriousness of my condition, rushed me to Hargeisa General Hospital," said Abshir to the reporter. " I was brought over here [Hargeisa] this morning at 7.00am and as you can see, my body is swollen all over and I remain chained to my bed".
" I was never brought to trial to which I am rightfully entitled as a citizen. It was only very recently that the prison commander informed me that I was sentenced to two year´s imprisonment by the so-called National Security Committee even though no one had ever spoken to me about this. I have yet to see any papers relating to my imprisonment although I was held in prison for the last three months" added Abshir.

Somaliland Vice President paints bleak future for Somalia’s secessionist entity
By Osman Jama Adam
http://www.lasanod.com/details.php?num=805
In a candid conversation with Diasporas Somalilanders the Vice-President of the self-declared Somaliland Republic painted a bleak picture of the economic and political crisis facing Somalia’s secessionists’ enclave. He shared with the audience, apparently in confidence, that he is in complete disagreement with President Riyaale with how the government handled the controversial issue of exporting livestock from the enclave.
On August 3, 2008 I was invited, I believe by mistake, to participate in a Tele-Conference organized by Somaliland American Council http://www.somalilandamerican.com/index.html, a Washington-based Ad Hoc group dedicated to the lobbying for the recognition of Somaliland as a State independent from Somalia.

The subject of the conference was "Current Situation in Somaliland’ and the Keynote Speaker was Ahmed Yusuf Yassin, Somaliland Vice President.
The following are the highlights of the Vice President presentations to an audience he believed was solely made up of the core constituency of the "Somaliland" Project.
The Government does not have the capacity to control events on the ground in Somaliland. " If a lawless teenager (Jirri) burns the Quran in the centre of Hargeisa, no government can do anything to stop it let alone bring him to justice.", Mr Yassin stated. He added if the government intervenes the whole incident would be turned into a clan against clan issue.

On the controversy over giving exclusive rights to a Saudi national to export livestock from the country, the Vice President stated that he is not in agreement with President Riyaale to give monopoly to a foreign national to export our livestock. However, in order for a free market to take effect for the export of livestock from Berbera we are required to come up with 3 million dollar deposit as a guarantee that the live stock is free from Rift Valley disease. The government does not have that can kind of money neither the business community.
Responding to a pre-submitted question on the Somaliland Constitution and how it relates to the controversy surrounding the export of livestock, the Vice President said that the Constitution was written 10 ago in English by a Sudanese constitution expert. No one is able to translate it into Somali. Therefore, neither "the President or myself know what is in the Constitution." "We need you, guys in the Diasporas, to translate this import document."
In concluding his speech, the Vice President, who is in Burco, stated that the only good news I have for you is that we succeeded in our long campaign to capture Las Anod. The key element in this campaign was, in advance of our militia invasion of Sool in 2007, we quietly and clandestinely sent dozens of former convicts, trained by our Ethiopian allies, to infiltrate the Sool communities in Adhi Cadey and Yagori. They settled and married from the community while all along providing intelligence and recruiting local collaborators.

The Vice-President added that they will continue following the same strategy in completing the occupation of Sool. At one point the Vice-President was interrupted by the Tele-conference Moderator who opinioned that we learned this strategy from our Protectors, the British, and thank God it is working! Laga Baray-ba; Laga Badi !!
Also the Vice-President reminded time and again during his presentation that the Ethiopians are our friends and that you, meaning the Diasporas Somalilanders, not to listen to those who malign Ethiopia. He also praised and thanked international NGOs. He said without them Somaliland can not survive for a day. So every Somalilander overseas should try his best to bring one NGO.
As a staunch defender of Somali Unity in spite of our current tragedy, this is the first time I participated in a "Somaliland" meeting whether by telephone or in person. I was flabbergasted by the contrast between Ahmed Yassin’s honest briefing on "Somaliland" current situation and the deafening boasts and naked propaganda of Diasporas Somalilanders that their ’country’ is peaceful, booming, and it is destined to be an international tourist destination. For a country that can not afford to come up with a 3 million dollar deposit, what do you expect the condition of the average Somali in Hargeisa and Burco?

Another question that comes to mind isn’t the Vice-President a member of the Somaliland Government? During his presentation he time and again spoke in the plural ’We’. "We are against the Government handling the livestock issue." Does the ’We’ refer to a sub-constituency in Somaliland that Ahmed Yusuf Yassin is a member but not President Riyale?

The Vice-President should be commended for his candor. He is popularly known in Somaliland as "WayDhaqaaq’day!", meaning "Somaliland is on the Move". It is a popular phrase he uses when addressing the masses on public events. But based on his presentation on August 3, 2008, it seems Somaliland "May Dhaqaa’qin.". Somaliland is not moving. On the contrary Somaliland is "stagnant" in a cesspool of dysfunctional governance that is plagued by crude divisive clanism and corruption.
In conclusion I wish to thank Somalilander Americans for organizing an open forum for all those interested in the affair of "Somaliland". It was a learning and interesting experience.

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