Puntland Oh Art Thou My Heart Bleeds 4 Ye

[DR OSMAN]

Puntland is my homeland. This is where my ancestors lived for centuries and paved the way for my existence. I feel like I owe it a 'great debt' and that debt can only be paid thru assisting PL into becoming a great region as our ancestors would've wanted. I am loyal son of Puntland, I do not hide this privately nor publically and declare my 'allegiance' to my ancestors. I don't mince my words about it nor do I try to sell you some 'wadani face' with a 'qabyalad' heart.

I don't operate like that. I prefer being a str8 shooter so we don't valuable time on trying to work out what I am and what I am not. But what tears my heart apart the most is the corruption in PL. Tuug dhan oo shacabka lacagtisa dhacayo oo weli dalka gudahisa kula joggo, waa ayaan daro oo runti ku tusinayso, PL diyaar uma ahaa inay dawlad rasmi ah noqoto. It tears my heart to see that we have a tolerant attitude towards corruption. We need to crack down immediately and begin enacting strict laws with REAL punishment for anyone caught harming Puntland people. We should never allow one duli to survive being a tuug at the expense of the greater community? the community well being comes first.

My first anticorruption bill will start with 'election process. I will demand that all register their 'local bank accounts' in PL with the corruption watch dog not just their account but also their 'wife' account and their 'assets' before they came into office. This is mandatory rule of election for all individuals running for PL public office. If you want to be running for public office, your bank account now becomes a 'public matter' not a private matter because u have shifted from the private world to the public world.

I would also require Dubai and Nairobi which are the hot-spots for corruption to not allow any of these public officials nor their family members to open up any foreign bank account there. Only once you have finished your time in office and the corruption watch-dog has 'cleared' you of no misconduct during your time in office can you retake control of your accounts locally or foreign. This means during your time in office we do not want you to use your public duties as a way to get rich of our people' back. I would make this absolutely mandatory. If you don't like the rules then don't run for public office and stay in the private world. But once u run for an office that is public, you should come under 'strong' laws.

I would also ensure all 'hawala or banks' has to have an anti-corruption watch dog present to ensure no transactions happen during or after or before election time. During this time is the highest season for corruption because foreigners are trying to change the govt, if this was present, it would make them think twice of using money because it could be captured and that money given to the people of PL as 'development'. For any illegal money in PL, we must pass a law that money will be re-distributed back into the community where the corruption attempt occurred. This allows our locals to not only punish corruption but it also allows them to take the money and invest it into their community..

The second area I would focus on is the punishment side. Anyone who is a Puntite that has been found to be involved in corruption either in PL or Somalia or anywhere while in an 'official puntland capacity' will simply lose their 'citizenship' in PL. They can never enter our land again. Our airports will have 'barred' individuals from entering and they will be on that list. Let the duli die a horrible death overseas away from the people who he tried to harm.

This is the punishment for 'diaspora' Puntite since 'arresting' them is not worth it, you can't reform some of these people, a tuug is a tuug no matter hadu 'wantowbo ama he doesn't'. He has the 'urge' to not work hard for what he has and wants to take shortcuts in life at the expense of anyone. I would barr diaspora puntites caught in corruption from being allowed to be a citizen of PL. They lost their Puntite residency. They can live in other parts of Somalia if they so wish but their not welcome in PL anymore.

I would ensure strong laws around local puntite who do corruption with 'stiff jail sentences' or possibly 'death' sentence depending on the 'case' of course and the effect his corruption had on the community. But Jail sentences, Naming and Shaming public officials on a public website of 'corruption criminals' who's name and official capacity is 'exposed to puntites' and their convicted crime. Even after they served their time in prison, this is 'long term' punishment where the community will shun him away and he will be outcasted because waa 'tuug' weeye.

This will make him think twice before he engages in corruption balancing the reward of corrupton in comparison to the 'punishment and stigma' he will face if caught. I really support the name/shame policy, he must be advertised to the community what crime he did because it was a crime against those people, they have a right to know who are committing crime on their name and public office. I would only recommend the death penalty in severe cases of corruption but in most cases I would recommend prison sentence and name/shaming them as long term stigma.

We can finally stamp out corruption or at the very least minimize it as much as possible because now there is 'laws' in place and an 'authorities with monitoring and enforcement powers' to monitor areas of corruption such as 'financial institutions' and 'bank accounts' of public officials. This must also expand to 'nairobi and dubai' because just because you crack down on 'corruption' inside PL, doesn't mean they can't cut deals outside of PL and set up accounts overseas for the 'transaction' to take place. That's why 'offshore' corruption is one of the most 'vicious forms' of corruption. He looks halal locally but his siphoning funds into his offshore account because he fears the 'laws' locally and being caught.

I am not sure what the scale of off-shore corruption is in PL but once it's cracked down 'locally' and they realize it's impossible to do it locally due to strong laws and authorities in place, they will join the 'offshore' account type of corruption and that's why I say we need to be a 'step ahead' and ensure we have our authorities and those authorities cooperating in those offshore havens. Mind u we must only do this for people who seek public office.

These laws and authorities must have procedures in place for when they seek office untill their time expires because it's during this 'phase' where corruption happens as they have power over something an they use that power to get 'financial concessions' from foreign nations. Whether it's ministry, parliament member, a party, courts, etc all these institutions must fall under the jurisdiction of the 'corruption watch dog' with strict audits and strict compliance required of people in those areas.

 

[Inquisitive_]

Why stop there? The corrupt person has a wife, several kids, parents and family that for the most part know about his ill gotten gains but decided to keep it hush.

The war of attrition should touch them too because they are the key enablers, anyone caught in it should have everything stripped from him and his family and first cousins banned from public office forever unless they free themselves from the tuug in advance.

When you pass laws like this and enact them, every single family will turn it's own criminals in out of fear of loosing all their assets.

But this will never happen as corruption runs in our blood, even her in the west we don't like to do honest work, it's all about cutting corners, scamming the government with an entire generation that was fed and nurtured on haram now continuing that trend.

 

[DR OSMAN]

Why stop there? The corrupt person has a wife, several kids, parents and family that for the most part know about his ill gotten gains but decided to keep it hush.

The war of attrition should touch them too because they are the key enablers, anyone caught in it should have everything stripped from him and his family and first cousins banned from public office forever unless they free themselves from the tuug in advance.

When you pass laws like this and enact them, every single family will turn it's own criminals in out of fear of loosing all their assets.

But this will never happen as corruption runs in our blood, even her in the west we don't like to do honest work, it's all about cutting corners, scamming the government with an entire generation that was fed and nurtured on haram now continuing that trend.

The obvious route of corrupt officials is to conceal the ill-gotten gains thru 'shares' in local or foreign companies as they feel it will be difficult for you to investigate the private books of investors. Some blatant ones go into property purchases and those assets should be re-seized as public property. The scariest one is once u have a control of corruption locally thru tough laws, name and shaming, imprisonment, and 'exile' of diasporan somalis who commit these acts while in office and loss of citizenship.

This is enough for people to re-consider their choices as they will need to weigh up the pros/cons of their action against the risk of getting caught. Is it worth risking your 'citizenship' over 30k bribe for a vote? this will make diasporan somalis contend with gambing their homeland over such transaction. Is it worth a diasporan to push a piece of legislation or sell public assets for 'bonuses' of millions of dollars and the risk of never being allowed to re-visit his homeland? the problem with the diasporan somali is, the only way to hold him accountable to laws is thru 'citizenship' loss, u can't exactly do that with a local since where can u deport them? but or local corrupt officials you can imprison, recover the money, and then name/shame them on a public corruption website.

This is mandatory as you want him to go to jail, then u want to ensure the money is now back in the state hand and given to the community, and lastly you want a long-term 'stigma' applied to him so he loses opportunities of ever being successful locally because people will visit the 'website' as Somalis are 'curious' lot to find out the 'tuugs' among them.

U see we need these sort of measures so they know their taking risks but as of now, their is no anti corruption law, there is no authority that has access to financial institution and monitoring money flow especially around 'election time' which is when it starts to become an 'all out bribe war' between foreign nations so they can decide the govt of those people, waa yaab, how they tolerate this as puntites waa ceeb in my eyes that another man with money abroad is deciding who 'runs your affairs' is a total kick in the teeth of people rights who pay taxes to this govt that is not representative of their will but the will of some 'financier' in qatar or dubai.

Once we have the anti corruption watch dog and he has authority over 'public official bank accounts, assets, shares, foreign bank accounts' and also his 'families' because a-lot use their family as a 'cover' to control their finances like ali mahdi did with his wife lol. He will show u an 'empty bank account' of his but he won't show u his 'wife bank account 'loooooooool'. He did say 'come and check my italian bank account' which is quite brave but he has covered his track and left the finance in his wife hands who then buried away in 'hormuud' shares. These companies books must be made 'transparent' also to the anti corruption official.

The difficult one will be foreign off-shore accounts or shares like 'khayre' tried to do that with somaoil. See that's how they do it, what we need is 'horta' tan gudaha laga adkaado, tan dibada will be the next 'war' and we need to go thru those govt to grant our govt access to certain individuals from our nation in their financial sector and ask that it be returned to the state of somalia as it's lost funds of the people. I think deep down we can crack down and end corruption locally very quickly, it may take a bit of time 'globally' due to different nations laws. But tan gudaha 2 seconds ayaa lagu soo xiri kara by following this methodology.

1. Anti Corruption Law passed by Parliament. An institution created with defined powers over public officials bank, asset, shares in the nation. Full Access to private company shares in Somalia so an audit can be done to ensure no govt official or their family or any 'psuedo name' isn't there.

2. Anti Corruption Law must define the sentencing of those convicted. If their locals, jail time and name/shame these officials to the public thru a website on the anti corruption watch dog and TV and Radio and Websites. This will have two benefits. The first one is he will serve time but the second one is 'longer term' stigma and his opportunities in the nation become 'limited'. As for Somali diaspora who have dual passports and have no fear because they will relocate back to the west. These ones tell em 'you can never step foot in PL' again and u will die overseas. Strip that person of his citizenship as of immediate. Work closely with the officials of his host nation to crack down on 'state funds' that he has either stored there in assets, shares, or accounts.

3. Continously do audits each year and present it to the public about public officials financial records and if their cleared as honest. Step up the audits when it's bribery seasons like election time, legislation time, or some major foreign investment. These are peak seasons for corruption and all resources must be mobilized by the anti corruption watch dog. In the slow season, yearly audits shall suffice. Then we need to focus on 'taxation' revenue and how it was used by each department, minister, director are usually the ones with full access to the funds. This must be reported to the 'Corruption watch dog' showing where it was spent, the date and time, and the policy it is achieving to address.

But I am of the opinion and I think all Somalis are also. If u commit a crime while in office is far more serious then a crime by a citizen. Your commiting a crime against the people u represent and this is a public office and therefore their should be public accountability and transparency, especially around naming/shaming them, they lose their privacy rights when they commit a crime of such magnitude. It's unfair you use your position while representing the people for your own 'ends' is unacceptable behavior.