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| Advocate Mohammed Ahmed |
Somaliland
never grows out from the senseless political disputes over the timeline of the
national elections. Those who were
barking at Riyaleh, when he was struggling with the schedules of elections, are
now trying to deflect our attention from the stench of their failure. The
Guurti house which was diluted by the political non-senses, and turned out to
be a tool for the presidential term extensions is a leopard that cannot change
its dots.
It was Kulmiye party that skinned Riyaleh
alive, when he failed to hold presidential election on their time. The
incumbent president was the one who dared to blew the whistle to the Udub-led
government and never become hesitant to call his supporter to the streets. Now,
he is not in the audience theatre, so he could not tolerate the crowd who is
hooting the horns at him. Today no one is willing to hear neither justification
nor explanations about his government’s failure to be accountable to the
public, or its disrespect to the constitution and rule of law.
Elections do not belong to Abdirrahman Irro,
or to Jamal of Ucid . Elections are not a dish cooked and served by the
electoral commission, but it is the right of the public, the sovereignty of
Somaliland people to approve who is going to run their affairs.
The government,
oppositions, electoral committees and the international donors, called
themselves as the stakeholders of the elections. In their view, it is them who
decide how and when the elections could happen. Thus, elections are not our
business as Somalilanders. The only choice that you are left is to bring
yourself at polling station.
When you heard the
political tones of those who consider themselves as oppositions, particularly
when the election days appear to be indeterminate. They hot wire the international
donors, reporting them how the incumbent government is reluctant to meet the
deadline of its constitutional mandate. Turning the other governments to see
what you had failed to handle shows the rootless political approach of the
party-men. When you heard such opposition rhetoric, you might think that
Somaliland elections are more favorable to the donors than its constituencies.
None of them is
serious about elections. To prove that, you have to measure the contending
views of the political rivalries against the realities on the ground.
Oppositions demonstrated their stance against elections without registration.
Likewise, the government reiterated that it will arrange everything, including
the civil registration before June of this year. Both of them turned a blind
eye to the practicability of the electoral road map.
Today, things are not
that different. Parties agreed to the suggestions that say voter registrations
should be started from July to November. While at the same time, they never
made their positions towards the date of the presidential and representative
elections clear. In this regard, it does not matter who might be the winner of
such dirty games, but what matters is who would mind to be the onlooker of that
games.
By advocate Mohamed Ahmed Abdi Ba’alul
(waddi12@gmail.com)
