Sunday, July 5, 2009
Discussion: which government system currently is best for Somalia
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I think my friend Shiekh Nur is out to lunch. What "Federalism". Only resource rich countries like Canada, the USA, Germany etc can afford any form of federalism, and even them are not really Federal in nature. My friends, just to maintain, a federal system, you need thousands of bureaucrats to manage both the political and fiscal separation of powers of the disparate regions/provinces etc, and these would be lawyers, economists, accountants, statisticians, engineers, environmental experts etc.. That would cost you more than the annual budget of one of the regions. So poof! goes Mr. Qassim's proposal!
Hosh
abdihosh1@yahoo.ca
Brother Hosh,
From the outset, Somalia is a country ravaged by almost twenty years of civil war - coupled with preceding twenty one years of totalitarian central government rule which brought about spotty preferential treatment given to the localities that were close to concentration of power.
This pleasing display of injustice has spawned a host of problems including massive country wide poverty, mismanagement of public funds, human rights violations, abuse of power, and most of all, runaway insurgencies and rebellions that fed on societal inequalities which at the end became cause for our current meltdown. If we are honest, Somalia’s problems did not start in 1991 but only escalated it is current level. One thing that has not changed is the fact that those who are against federalism in Somalia are the ones who want to go back to the status quo of the past.
Federalism in Somalia will certainly take an enormous effort to implement as same way as any other system, but one thing is for sure, we don’t want to go back to a system that has already failed us. Federalism will empower regional entities to step to the plate and ensure transparency in the local level. Dividing power between regions and the central government will automatically server as means to grantee check and balances providing double security to make sure government are accountable to the people.
I can honestly attest your patriotism for wanting a strong central government for Somalia, which has been our dream since the inception of our country. However, if one takes into account the practicality of Putland State of Somalia and our brothers of Somaliland’s success in their regional efforts to establish peace and tranquility in their territories, then one can certainty say with proof that Federalism has already worked in Somalia.
Sadiq Abdirahman
sadiq_abdirahman@yahoo.com
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
ReplyDeleteI think that one signs and highest level of any society’s maturity is when it allows “live and let live.” For the past twenty years we have been in the middle of a dark cloud of war violence, rape, and man-made starvation. We have used any method and means to justify the commitment of these atrocities from clan, region, language, mode of production and finally religion[s]. Yet, we are proud people who think that we are genius and hard working people. Much of Nairobi is teaming with money that some of our people were killed for and our beautiful land pillaged for few pennies. Those pennies are used to build tall buildings with shimmering glasses in the worst, dirtiest and most destitute part of Nairobi Eastleigh and yet we are hunted and disrespected by our host nation of Kenya. Brothers and sisters we are not addressing the right question in this discussion of the best government in Somalia. Mush of our people are in the middle of a dark cloud without silver lining in sight. I opine, our task should be how we liberate ourselves from the evils of some our own brothers? One proposal is so long as we are dancing around the issues of collective punishment against those who committed and continue to commit crime against our mothers, children, elders and future of our beloved Somalia we will continue to be in this mess. I believe many of brothers and sisters in diaspora are tired of subsidizing the war directly or indirectly and most importantly I for one am tired of being foreigner.
A.Osman
abdosman@gmail.com
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
ReplyDeleteI think that one signs and highest level of any society’s maturity is when it allows “live and let live.” For the past twenty years we have been in the middle of a dark cloud of war violence, rape, and man-made starvation. We have used any method and means to justify the commitment of these atrocities from clan, region, language, mode of production and finally religion[s]. Yet, we are proud people who think that we are genius and hard working people. Much of Nairobi is teaming with money that some of our people were killed for and our beautiful land pillaged for few pennies. Those pennies are used to build tall buildings with shimmering glasses in the worst, dirtiest and most destitute part of Nairobi Eastleigh and yet we are hunted and disrespected by our host nation of Kenya. Brothers and sisters we are not addressing the right question in this discussion of the best government in Somalia. Mush of our people are in the middle of a dark cloud without silver lining in sight. I opine, our task should be how we liberate ourselves from the evils of some our own brothers? One proposal is so long as we are dancing around the issues of collective punishment against those who committed and continue to commit crime against our mothers, children, elders and future of our beloved Somalia we will continue to be in this mess. I believe many of brothers and sisters in diaspora are tired of subsidizing the war directly or indirectly and most importantly I for one am tired of being foreigner.
A.Osman
abdosman@gmail.com