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Very good article which proposes 8 policies:
1: Fire every head of your security institutions:
In an alternate world where you could exercise your political might to try these unconscionable kleptocrats for treason, Unfortunately that’s an alternative world, so I’ll advise from the real life, and encourage you to appoint Security heads who, I don’t know, know a thing or two about security.
2: Re-build NISA from scratch.
.Break all of it apart, hammer it, and wash away its remnants in the Indian Ocean to swim along the toxicity it has become. This institution, at worst represents our collective political propensity for nepotism, corruption, and internal espionage. Right now, Nisa primarily serves an institution that hands out I.D cards to any young man reckless enough to be a target of insurgent ire, but risks it anyways to romance young woman at restaurants.. Imagine the humiliation that is an institution that functions like a police department where every Mogadishu neighbourhood has one, and it’s members are about as a confidential as a Donald Trump after a security briefing. “Hi, I’m the head of NISA’s Medina District” uttered publicly is a sentence that should embarrass any experts in intelligence and every Somali committed to liberating our occupied territories.
3: Employ Pragmatic approaches to Ethiopia, Kenya, and regional powers:
While your brand is undoubtedly inspirational and founded on nationalist philosophy that won you the collective political consciousness of Somalis from the shores of Ras Kamboni to Seylac; It will also one day serve as your administration’s achilles-heel. Be mindful that your constituents, hungry for change, might lead you to take political actions that could lead to seismic damage to our recovery efforts. Surround yourself with environmental experts, real-politik technocrats, and well-versed political scientists who understand the complexity of guarding Somalia’s sovereignty, while mindful of a changing global order.
4: As for the case of Somaliland, the perpetual elephant in the room, please stay away from incitement and dangerous rhetoric. Somalia has yet to secure Mogadishu, and any provocation will be met with further political turmoil and resistance. In the real world, no functioning businessperson would accept an investor with numerous bankruptcy claims and a lengthy criminal background. We are that unscrupulous investor who must focus on rebuilding one’s reputation before soliciting partners. Somalia must engage Somaliland through collaborative dialogue and a demonstration of change in ways of the South, before one can ever politically entertain the notion of a united Somalia. Let Somalia, as it stands, entice the kin we’ve lost through reform, reconciliation, and economic stability.
5: Build a government-backed, national Islamic body. Name it what you will, but build it and fill it with philosophical, moral and learned minds. To win the war for Somalia is to take control of the monopoly these fundamentalist cartels. Somalia needs serious theologians, well versed in Islam, rhetoric, educated in institutions that promote academic inquiry of theology, and not back-alley Imams ranting and raving about fake news, girls playing sports, delivering alternative fact fatwas, and sermons on the ‘haram’ composition of vegetable stock in our diets. To fight these philistines, you must counter their ideological legitimacy.
6: Fight nepotism in your cabinet: Particularly when it comes to sourcing technocrats, tasked with rebuilding our institutions. As it stands, most ‘experts’, and World Bank/UNDP funded ‘advisors’ are the kids, distance nephews/nieces, long-time friends, love-interests, and clan relatives of political appointees, who are about competent as Homer Simpson manning the State Department. Do you know how humiliating it is to see X-ray technicians representing ‘Somalia’ in a global conference on climate change? Scenarios like the status quo amidst our civil service. This is an embarrassment to our institutions, and we can no longer treat our vital institutions as a place to procure a ticket abroad to attend conferences in hopes of curating pictures for Facebook and Snapchat. Start with the men and women you will choose to guide, advise, and represent you. One’s friends are met for cafe shop pontifications not in the halls of our most senior political and civic bodies.
7 :Challenge the politics of International Aid by 1) ensuring you empower civil servants who can present our national priorities in dynamic, articulate, researched and competent form, and 2) Informing our International partners that while we welcome AID, Somalia will be a stakeholder in setting development priorities and key areas of intervention as opposed to the contemporary standard operating procedure of NGOs running around Mogadishu’s International Airport with recycled concept notes and plagiarized proposals from failed projects in Iraq, Afghanistan, et al
8: Catapult Somali women into the highest political and civic offices. Look President, women’s empowerment isn’t some NGO project that can be placed in the back of the assembly line. It is a critical socio-economic and political measure that is paramount to our national recovery. To isolate half of your constituents, in defence of the status quo, will only lead to future humanitarian disasters, and the growing of a grossly under-educated and marginalized populations. Stand by the women who have held our broken nation in an upright position, in the absence of a government. I will also advise that you stay away from certain ‘gender equality’ gate-keepers who only view Somali women as a NGO concept note and means to advance personal interests/political ambitions.
Source:
Farmaajo need to take this advice
1: Fire every head of your security institutions:
In an alternate world where you could exercise your political might to try these unconscionable kleptocrats for treason, Unfortunately that’s an alternative world, so I’ll advise from the real life, and encourage you to appoint Security heads who, I don’t know, know a thing or two about security.
2: Re-build NISA from scratch.
.Break all of it apart, hammer it, and wash away its remnants in the Indian Ocean to swim along the toxicity it has become. This institution, at worst represents our collective political propensity for nepotism, corruption, and internal espionage. Right now, Nisa primarily serves an institution that hands out I.D cards to any young man reckless enough to be a target of insurgent ire, but risks it anyways to romance young woman at restaurants.. Imagine the humiliation that is an institution that functions like a police department where every Mogadishu neighbourhood has one, and it’s members are about as a confidential as a Donald Trump after a security briefing. “Hi, I’m the head of NISA’s Medina District” uttered publicly is a sentence that should embarrass any experts in intelligence and every Somali committed to liberating our occupied territories.
3: Employ Pragmatic approaches to Ethiopia, Kenya, and regional powers:
While your brand is undoubtedly inspirational and founded on nationalist philosophy that won you the collective political consciousness of Somalis from the shores of Ras Kamboni to Seylac; It will also one day serve as your administration’s achilles-heel. Be mindful that your constituents, hungry for change, might lead you to take political actions that could lead to seismic damage to our recovery efforts. Surround yourself with environmental experts, real-politik technocrats, and well-versed political scientists who understand the complexity of guarding Somalia’s sovereignty, while mindful of a changing global order.
4: As for the case of Somaliland, the perpetual elephant in the room, please stay away from incitement and dangerous rhetoric. Somalia has yet to secure Mogadishu, and any provocation will be met with further political turmoil and resistance. In the real world, no functioning businessperson would accept an investor with numerous bankruptcy claims and a lengthy criminal background. We are that unscrupulous investor who must focus on rebuilding one’s reputation before soliciting partners. Somalia must engage Somaliland through collaborative dialogue and a demonstration of change in ways of the South, before one can ever politically entertain the notion of a united Somalia. Let Somalia, as it stands, entice the kin we’ve lost through reform, reconciliation, and economic stability.
5: Build a government-backed, national Islamic body. Name it what you will, but build it and fill it with philosophical, moral and learned minds. To win the war for Somalia is to take control of the monopoly these fundamentalist cartels. Somalia needs serious theologians, well versed in Islam, rhetoric, educated in institutions that promote academic inquiry of theology, and not back-alley Imams ranting and raving about fake news, girls playing sports, delivering alternative fact fatwas, and sermons on the ‘haram’ composition of vegetable stock in our diets. To fight these philistines, you must counter their ideological legitimacy.
6: Fight nepotism in your cabinet: Particularly when it comes to sourcing technocrats, tasked with rebuilding our institutions. As it stands, most ‘experts’, and World Bank/UNDP funded ‘advisors’ are the kids, distance nephews/nieces, long-time friends, love-interests, and clan relatives of political appointees, who are about competent as Homer Simpson manning the State Department. Do you know how humiliating it is to see X-ray technicians representing ‘Somalia’ in a global conference on climate change? Scenarios like the status quo amidst our civil service. This is an embarrassment to our institutions, and we can no longer treat our vital institutions as a place to procure a ticket abroad to attend conferences in hopes of curating pictures for Facebook and Snapchat. Start with the men and women you will choose to guide, advise, and represent you. One’s friends are met for cafe shop pontifications not in the halls of our most senior political and civic bodies.
7 :Challenge the politics of International Aid by 1) ensuring you empower civil servants who can present our national priorities in dynamic, articulate, researched and competent form, and 2) Informing our International partners that while we welcome AID, Somalia will be a stakeholder in setting development priorities and key areas of intervention as opposed to the contemporary standard operating procedure of NGOs running around Mogadishu’s International Airport with recycled concept notes and plagiarized proposals from failed projects in Iraq, Afghanistan, et al
8: Catapult Somali women into the highest political and civic offices. Look President, women’s empowerment isn’t some NGO project that can be placed in the back of the assembly line. It is a critical socio-economic and political measure that is paramount to our national recovery. To isolate half of your constituents, in defence of the status quo, will only lead to future humanitarian disasters, and the growing of a grossly under-educated and marginalized populations. Stand by the women who have held our broken nation in an upright position, in the absence of a government. I will also advise that you stay away from certain ‘gender equality’ gate-keepers who only view Somali women as a NGO concept note and means to advance personal interests/political ambitions.
Source:
Farmaajo need to take this advice
