AN OPEN LETTER TO SOMALILAND All-Party Parliamentary Group.

An open letter to SOMALILAND All-Party Parliamentary Group.

Wesminister Parliament

London,

U.K

Dear Friends of Somaliland,

Somaliland is sleep walking into self-destruction. There is no other culprit but its President. It needs a quick unreserved salvation. It calls for its friends to help shake its leadership into sense, to bring President Riyaale to come back to rule of the law. Media is cracked, political activities denied, while the ruling party is singing and dancing all alone and with the meager wealth of this nation.

When we were thinking what worse can come, it just happened this morning. It is the last nail on the democracy coffin in Somailand. The army is used to overturn a simple disciplinary decision by the Speaker and Code of Conduct Committee of the elected house of parliament. The Committee banned six members who violently disrupted the order of the house for the shortest period of only three days. To the surprise of all, just yesterday the six said in Press release" No one can stop us, we are coming tomorrow and let us see who can stop us"

Right to their words, they did come with a force of 200 Special Police unit...for the rest read this article under.

Friends, It is now or never. Your quick action is needed and needed with tangible results. First and foremost, denounce these series of illegal, undemocratic actions by the President. Stand for the people of Somaliland, and stop turning this peaceful nation into hell. Somaliland is bleeding, that bleeding can be stopped now, there will be time it would not. Please do help and save for the whole humanity. The effect of unstable Somaliland will be global, it will reach beyond its borders. We all know its impact for we witnessed how 1980's civil war touched us all over the world. That is why half of Somalilanders are spread all over the world.

Sincerely Yours,

Ahmed Arwo

President

Somaliland Democracy Shield

samotalis@gmail.com

http//samotalis.blogspot.com/

Armed Policemen Enter Parliament To Aid MPs of Somaliland's Ruling Party

HARGEISA, Somaliland (Somaliland Globe)- Around two hundred armed policemen entered Somaliland's parliament to force the Speaker of the House to allow six legislators of the ruling party, UDUB, to attend and participate in today's parliamentary session although the legislators were disciplined and given 3 day suspension from attending sessions.

The Speaker of the House abruptly ended today's business when the armed policemen aiding the six legislators walked into the building of the lower house of parliament. The legislative leadership and other members of the parliament came out of the building and protested against the police's unwarranted intrusion into the parliament.

"Today's Parliamentary session is cancelled following the deployment of a large contingent of police that won't take orders from us," said Abdurrahman Mohamed Abdillahi, Speaker of the lower house of parliament.

The police commander of Somaliland, Mohamed Saqadi Dubad, was quoted as saying that the police was "acting on orders from the president". He also told the Speaker that his order to suspend the six legislators from attending the parliamentary sessions will not be followed.

The six disgraced legislators, who are zealously loyal to Dahir Rayale, faced a disciplinary action, according to parliamentary regulations, and were, as a result, suspended from attending three parliamentary sessions due to gross disorderly conduct. They were protesting against a parliamentary agenda which included impeachment proceedings against the president.

As soon as they were given the suspension, the six fanatical loyalists joined by other pro-presidential legislators held a hastily arranged press conference yesterday at which they bizarrely "appealed to the police, the military and the minister of interior to come to their aid".

The president had answered their appeal and directly ordered the police to force the legislative leadership to allow the six men to attend and participate in the parliamentary session without any hindrance irrespective of the Speaker's decision.

On 24^th August, the six MPs began to cause criminal damage by breaking chairs and ripping off wires in the parliament following their failure to make any amendments to the parliamentary agenda. Consequently, they used foul language and threatening behavior against fellow members and made a spectacle of the parliament. Witnesses described the incident as an absolute disgrace and a conduct unbecoming a Member of Parliament.

Analysts point out that Rayale's political difficulties have deepened in recent weeks and as a result he has become increasingly paranoid. He has feuded with the leaders of both Houses of parliament, breached the Electoral Law of the country by reaching a "unilateral decision" to hold the forthcoming presidential election without voter registration list, ignored donors countries' appeal to reverse his "unwise decision" and contemptuously rebuffed a parliamentary resolution calling for him to reverse his decision within seven days.

The time remaining for Rayale to put his house in order is fast running out: his mandate will expire in October this year. He is therefore constantly haunted by the prospect of impeachment and immediate removal from office.

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Posted By Samotalis to SAMOTALIS at 8/29/2009 06:49:00 PM