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It was succeeded by socialist system or one party politics, its early years it has developed human capital, institutions, industries, infrastructure and the strongest arm in Sub Saharan Africa to defend the nation, it is the only time the country has been respected among the community of nations. It received enormous political, military, ideological and economic support from Eastern block. Going to war with Ethiopia to liberate Somaliland of Ethiopia doomed its failure, the war was success in its early stages but it was defeated by Eastern block's war machine that has built the same army in the first place. As the end of the cold war approached the regime lost its support from the ally superpowers, the oppositions gained momentum it was finally overthrown in 1991.
Stateless politics or the end of the nation state, the oppositions that has overthrown the regime, did not have an agenda, command structure, hierarchy and policies to run the country. The central government ceased to exist. The anarchy and lawless was the rule of the day, the mixture of tribal politics, the ego to dominate one another was the end game. The life of the ordinary citizen became unbearable, as the institutions that served them well in the past were no longer there, they could not cope being citizen of failed state, enduring vicious cycle of violence , poverty ,despair and disappointment. They demanded recreation and rebuilding of the nation. After numerous attempt by international community to bring together the warring factions to agree to form a broad based transitional federal government, they have finally agreed to distribute the power among the tribal lines 4.5 formula , it was the only time they formed effective central government hence it has adopted the tribal politics. The last two administrations created from it were not able to restore the authority and credibility of the central government, the tribal politics was another failed system.
Currently there is weak government with enlarged parliament that intends to rule the country the Sharia or the Islamic law, some groups are opposing, continuing to wage a war against it in order to over throw, in the midst and mist of the challenges why Somali politicians, groups and parties cannot agree any common goal to lead the country?, even using the Shari law cannot bring unity, stability to rebuild the system.
Somalis are no longer the harmonious and homogeneous society once it was, among them there are progressive liberals, global citizens, gender politics, pirates, conservatives, moderates and radicals, the notion and the mindset to suggest these are western labels are not realistic, just google the web it will not be long before you encounter Somalis associating with one those groups. so how could we find a leadership that converges and conforms with those opposing groups, ideas and values , harnesses diversity , that is prepared to face the challenges of the twenty first century country faces which includes but not confined : Global worming , depleting fish stocks , prolonged drought, soil erosion, desertification and killer diseases. Any system can govern the people if it has the right leadership or politics that is conscious lacks ego, greed, nepotism, promotes fairness, equality, transparency, accountability, tolerance and respect among its citizens. Somali politics needs right leadership if that is not emerge any time soon our existence as country and ethnicity will be in harms way.
Diaspora community is partially to blame for this disastrous ongoing civil anarchy, we are all good at writing about our beloved country as an audience all we do is to read and ignore, what we need collectively as people of Somalia is to have our country in our own hand by challenging those failed leaders, Somalia needs popular up rising to depose hardliners , self declared looters likes of warlords, inexperience uneducated class and tribal leaders to replace them with more progressive leadership, visionary with accountable governance. We need to act quickly by standing up to this anarchy, lets all start holding demonstrations all over the world by voicing our concern with our failed leaders, in 2005 the Orange revolutions started in Ukraine, to make long story short, as a result of popular uprising by the people of Ukraine government was deposed and replaced with more progressive administration, are we ready for this? Are we ready to act? Let us hope Diaspora community recognizes the people's power and in one day we will act, if not it would be a supreme cruel irony and consensus collective failure in which our children will be ashamed to call themselves Somali!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ We welcome the submission of all articles for possible publication on WardheerNews.com So please email your article today Opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of WardheerNews |
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