Written by Yusuf Dirir Ali
In the months before the London conference on Somalia, the Somalia’s transitional Government repetitively told the international community that they have completed the liberation of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital city and at long last Alshabaab terrorists were on the run and were being hunted down one by one. This allured many countries to believe the TFG’s side of the story and consequently some countries even appointed ambassadors to that troubled country, but in reality and to the dismay of the international community that cheering fairy-tale turned out to be far from the truth.
Since the London conference on Somalia the heavily fortified Presidential palace was attacked several times in a broad day light. Yesterday, the Somalia National theater was attacked and scores of people were killed in a bomb blast, the Prime Minister and his deputy had narrowly escaped that attack. Regrettably among the slaughtered were members of the Somalia media corps and ordinary Somali audience. That National theater was once the propaganda centre for Siad Barre’s notorious dictatorial regime.
Liberation of Mogadishu was not the only fabricated story that was convincingly told to the international community, but the international community was repeatedly taken for a free ride by the Prime Minister, the president of the TFG and the self-appointed leader of Puntland, when they all declared that the Somalis have had an all inclusive agreement on a road map to solve Somalia’s chronic problems. This again turned to be another fabricated cock-and-bull story. The so-called Kampala and Garowe so-called principles were neither all-encompassing nor road maps for solving Somalia’s quandary; but in fact these were nothing but per-emptive tactical manoeuvrings to thwart the international community to hit upon a concrete solution for Somalia in the LCS.
I was very much flabbergasted, when I saw Mr. Abdiweli Gaas Ali, Somalia’s appointed Prime Minister shamelessly lying to the world, while standing next to the British Prime minister and the secretary General of the United Nations Just minutes after the Lancaster house conference ended; he stated that the Garowe and Kampala meetings were all inclusive. In actual fact, Kampala and Garowe inclusiveness was a habitual and deceitful feint by Somalia’s unelected dictatorial folks. Those who met in Garowe were President Sharif, his political ally the ousted former speaker of the parliament, who is also coincidentally called Shariif but is everything but shariif (Shariif is the Arabic word for decent), the Prime Minister and the leader of quasi state of Puntland, the later two are blood- cousins and they both are from Puntland and were both cabinet members of that pirate invested quasi state. The only outsider in the unyielding circle in Garowe meetings was Mr. Alin of Galmudug state.
The Growe-Kampala group signed the LCS communiqué and promised to respect its points, but as soon as the conference was over, they all turned back to their old politically expedient habits – President Shariif and the Puntland leaders began a campaign aiming to destabilize Somaliland. In contrary to the LCS communiqué they offered both moral and material support to anti-Somaliland factions that waged couple of unsuccessful terrorist attacks against Somaliland forces in Sool region of Somaliland.
Ridiculously enough, the TFG leaders have misinterpreted point six of the London communiqué, which stated: “The Conference recognizes the need for the international community to support any dialogue that Somaliland and the TFG or its replacement may agree to establish in order to clarify their future relations.” Mr. Faroole of Puntland stubbornly stated that there will never be a deal on Somaliland’s future relations with Somalia without his approval. At the same time, President Shariif of the TFG has distorted the communiqué to his penchant.
They also began to undermine the authority of the Parliamentary majority in Somalia and ignored the ousting of the former speaker. Not only had that, but Faroole of Puntland had major disagreements with TFG leaders since the LCS, where he aimed hostile statements at the President of the TFG.
In the up-coming Istanbul, Turkey conference on Somalia, the TFG leaders will kiss cheeks in front of the TV cameras and will tell the same fictitious stories over and over again to mislead the international community, but will the international community ever stop believing Somalia’s TFG?
Yusuf Dirir Ali
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