The need for practical good leadership in Somalia is so apparent; of course it is because of lack it that the country is in an endless turmoil for more than two decades now.
Poor Somalis have always choked back their seething grieves and rages to get the kind of men and women who can lead them well into the road to peace and stability, but always in vain.
A leader will never find his way unless you lead him by the noose, but the leading classes in Somali have never given that opportunity to their subject, their desperate people, and have since lead the country from bad to worse.
The powerful political classes in Somalia, whether they are what I call ‘cooperate’ or clan leaders have only known which side of the bread is buttered.
They seem to lay their plans depending on what gains they can get without worrying about the trouble and vexation of their helpless and poor people. It doesn’t matter to them whether one person is dying or a thousand people are massacred.
Somalia is not the country of the blind, there are many good capable men and women who can really make their people proud, but the real problem is that one-eyed men always want to be the kings in this failed state.
Some people say that Somalia is a country where everybody wants to be the president, but I say Somalia is a country like any other in the third world where visionary leadership is absent to fast track reconciliation process.
Over the last two devastating decades an estimated one million Somalis have been killed, many more million of others have been displaced. Far more awesome the country is degenerating into a worsening trend every passing day.
From every end: much from within Somalia and from the international community, the blame game concerning the Horn of Africa nation continues unabated , and in the process we only see more deaths, displacements and destructions.
In Somalia there is really a total crisis of leadership, the failure of finding the right honorable prime minister in the last three transitional governments is a testimony to the boring patterns of bad-politics in this poor nation.
From the administration of both the immediate former president Abdullahi Yussuf to the current regime of Sheikh Sharif, several prime ministers have left the government with their tails between their legs.
There is all the reason to believe that the people of Somalia always find themselves backing the wrong horse.
The catalogue of resignation of about five prime ministers over the past a half a decade signals how the lagging lords in Somalia is hitting a dead-end leaving behind little hope and aspiration for new comers into the power nod of the country.
From the vacation of Ali Mohamed Gedi who has been the country’s premier from 2004 to 2007, to the most recent victim Ali Sharmake, we have only known to see an array of resignation after resignation casting doubt on whether Somalia can ever produce an able-bodied prime minister and president.
Not mention the period of president Abdulqasim, first resignation started with Mr. Gedi in December 2007 after along standing difference with President Abdullathi Yussuf. Following the resignation of Gedi, Premier Nur Hassan rose to the helm but later fought decisively with his appointee only to result in the downfall of the entire interim authory forcing president Yusuf to vacate office consequently.
The regime of president Sharif has inherited the same unyielding appointments that only wasted the timeframe to enhance institutional strengthening of the country. The reason why many premiers left their job has been lack of cooperation between the executive arms.
Now the same game goes on and on, president Sharif follows the same path his two predecessors have failed to quantify accurately for Somalia’s hard-to-crack peace process.
As time and tide wait for no man, we only anticipate seeing an expiry of the transitional government come Augst2011 without any significant achievement for the people of Somalia.
This kind of leadership in the successive interim governments is undoubtedly not a solution for Somalis; it rather shows the edifice of a complicated peace process that will ever remain hanging in the balance.
The ever-stale political quagmire nurtured a not-promising situation, if the current poor leadership in the country continues to rule, the people in this God-forsaken nation will only have a chance in hell.
For the people of Somalia it is now time to take the bull by the horns, there is always more than one way to skin a cat, there is no need to waste time on the same process again and again that resulted total failures.
The appointment of the new Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi will never make difference in as long as the same failures that trapped his predecessors still remain. Mr. Abdullahi has been praised from Cape to Cairo but he should know that he is not a sacred cow, and that he will certainly resign one day.
His appointment comes with nothing big, it is the same Somalia that he has left a decade ago, nothing has changed really for you premier.
I am sure those who have appointed you have misled your integrity as a scholar and by accepting the offer you have certainly thrown yourself into the lion’s den.
Now it’s your time and turn, but remember everyman is the architect of his own fortune. The people of Somalia cannot remain ruined by worthless leaders who have no moral fortitude to act decisively and in the best interest of Somalis.
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