SOMALIA today stands on the brink of disaster. World
community kept their pledge to support Somalia, but the Somali Federal
Government under Hassan Sheikh, the country is heading toward more civil war.
The prize, for which so many Somalis believed and hoped for, was a functioning
democratic and non-tribal country. But the Somali Federal Government is now
moving in the opposite direction — toward a tribal autocracy that carries with
it the threat of devastating renewed civil war.
Since Somalia’s 2012 election, we have witnessed the
subordination of the country to President Hassan Sheikh’s tribe and his
DamulJadiid Party, the erosion of judicial independence, the intimidation of
opponents and the dismantling of independent institutions intended to promote
clean governance and combat corruption. All of this happened during the London
Conference, while other countries are uniting in supporting Somalia. Hassan Sheikh is planning marginalizing and antagonizing
Digil Mirifle Communities. Instead, uniting the country and fairly
leading government made up by all Somalis including Digil Mirifle, he is planting
a sapling tree of civil war against his Southern and Southwest citizens. Digil Mirifle communities are now treated as
second class citizens. All are congregated
in IDP camps under difficult harsh conditions with constant harassment by his
tribal militia or so called Somali army.
Digil Mirifle MPs and leaders of the Somali parliament, the country’s
lawmakers who now make-up more than a quarter of the Somali parliament and
represent more than a 35 percent of all Somalis, are now opposing this
government under Hassan Sheikh and Prime Minister Saacid. Digil Mirifle MPs are
not thinking of themselves only, but as all Somalis, and with their
constituencies spanning the entire country. They are now being hounded and
threatened by President Hassan Sheikh and Saacid who is attempting to drive Digil
Mirifle leaders out of Somalia’s political life and create an authoritarian
one-party Somalia.
It did not have to happen this way. The Somali people emerged
from the bloody and painful transition after the fall of Siyad Bare’s regime
hoping for a brighter future. After President Hassan Sheikh’s election, Digil Mirifle
people and the rest of Somalis felt there was a real opportunity to create a
new Somalia that could be a model for the region. Somalia needed the United
Nation to protect the political process, to prevent violations of the
Constitution, protect power-sharing agreement, equal distribution of powers, and
to help develop democratic institutions. Now the winner takes all, the rest are
left throwing stones or to form opposition.
This is not the way it is supposed to be.
For the sake of stability, Digil Mirifle leaders agreed to
join the federal government following a landmark power-sharing agreement
reached years ago in Djibouti. However, for more than six months now President
Hassan Sheikh has refused to implement this agreement, instead concentrating
greater power in his own hands and his inner circle.
Unless International Community acts rapidly to help create a
successful unity federal government, Somalia is doomed.
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