BAYDHABO - Amid growing dissatisfaction about the handling of the
New Deal Process and the usual political exclusion practiced by Hassan Sheikh’s
All-Hawiye government, the Digil Mirifle Regional Administration in Baidio
today decided to cut all ties with Hassan Sheikh'S government in Mogadishu.
Members of the Bay Regional Administration today called
for the Somali government led by Hassan Sheikh to be inclusive and stop excluding Digil Mirifle members out of the New Deal Process. "Only an
inclusive process will work and that we can be part of," Bay Regional
Administrator Mr. Biikole told reporters Tuesday after visiting with the All-Hawiye
Somali Government New Deal Delegation and others during unsuccessful brief trip
to Baidoa.
“All
of the President Hassan Sheikh’s “New Deal” Task Force is one clan, dominated
by those who have attacked us and want to dominate us and rob our territories, how
can we trust them and work with them.” Said, Bakol Police Chief. Many in the region think that the President
and those in Mogadishu should have been more inclusive when they have first
launched a “New Deal” Task Force if they truly intended to work on the
implementation of a radical new system of aid delivery. People in Southern Somalia who have endured
more drought and famine feel that the international community have entrusted
and tasked the work of safeguarding aid to the aid thieves themselves. An elder in Baidoa said, “This is like having
hyena to watch your goats, you cannot hire hyena to be a shepherd.”
Most recently, President Hassan Sheikh of Hawiye tribe excluded
other tribes from the UK and Japan conferences.
Instead, he led all-Hawiye delegation to all conferences including members
of his immediate family. As clearly evidenced in many reports by the UN, Somali President Hassan Sheikh has quickly gone about shaping
what was once a country from balanced power-shared transition into a nation in
a verge of tribal power fight.
Several Somali regional administrators and
Civil Society groups have already voiced their grievances with the EU and the
United Nations. In a Speech by UN
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia on the 2nd
Core Group Meeting, Nicholas Kay expressed his own frustration and the lack of
inclusivity in the New Deal Process led by the Somali Government under Xassan
Sheekh. “important questions remain regarding the inclusivity of the New Deal
process, especially when it comes to the
engagement of the regions, the format of the Brussels conference and
expected commitments by the international
community as well as the focus and format of the post-Brussels New Deal
process.” Says Mr. Kay.
Somali government
has clearly failed. The Digil Mirifle
people are not represented in this process and in the Brussels
Conference. This is causing more
problems and might even lead a further conflict among Somali tribes. The fight
over resources and political power is coming to light again in Somalia, all perpetuated
by President Hassan Sheikh and his inner circle Damu-jadiid mafias
including some of political mercenaries like Minister of Defense, Somali EU Ambassador
and Deputy Foreign Minister who are all from the region but are so afraid to
speak about the plight of their constituencies.
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