Zayd
Habar Magaadle
Before the Somaliland e-mob comes after me, know that I am the son and grandson of two SNM fighters.
Don't get me wrong, Somaliland has achieved the greatest thing a society can achieve, stability, especially over the course of the last 25 years. However let me ask you, do you want Somaliland to end up like the UAE? Which is soon btw going to introduce VAT taxes because of them finally realising that you can't have a resource like oil as a lifeline of a nation.
Or do you want neighbouring Somali states to also split into tiny little nations, furthering our weaknesses to the world? Don't get me wrong, 150 years ago Somalis knew nothing of a united nation, each clan tended to his own, whatever civil society existed only existed in coastal towns and cities like Zeila and Berbera.
The idea of a homogenous Somali nation does sound good to the ears but bringing such a thing is more trickier than finding a needle in a haystack, this is because every Somali sees his fellow Somali as a equal or even inferior, which leads them to have this desire to remove whatever leader there is in power and replace them with their own.
Siad Barre did it with the iron fist, but look where that took him, the cronies in his regime stirred up a little trouble and that eventually led to a civil war that ended for some in 1991, but carried on for others for 20 years.
Let me be the first to say I will never support a union between the two current governments, Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud is nothing but a appointed stooge to me, and let's just say Silaanyo re-introduced tribal politics in Somaliland after replacing most of his cabinet ministers with unknown men from his tribe (Xirsi Gaab?)
My main contention with recognition is that we will become a weak nation vulnerable to the seductive investment plans from the international co-operations. Somalis have to become a robust self-sufficient nation, feeding it's people it's own grain, treating it's various clans equally (unlike Siad's bizarre rule on Hargeisa where he prevented the construction of buildings larger than two storeys).
I love Somaliland , we don't have to throw away our flag, it's just that we should not be naïve to the criminal loan sharks like the IMF who will seize the opportunity to put us in a cycle of debt..
A wolf attacks the lone sheep.
Don't get me wrong, Somaliland has achieved the greatest thing a society can achieve, stability, especially over the course of the last 25 years. However let me ask you, do you want Somaliland to end up like the UAE? Which is soon btw going to introduce VAT taxes because of them finally realising that you can't have a resource like oil as a lifeline of a nation.
Or do you want neighbouring Somali states to also split into tiny little nations, furthering our weaknesses to the world? Don't get me wrong, 150 years ago Somalis knew nothing of a united nation, each clan tended to his own, whatever civil society existed only existed in coastal towns and cities like Zeila and Berbera.
The idea of a homogenous Somali nation does sound good to the ears but bringing such a thing is more trickier than finding a needle in a haystack, this is because every Somali sees his fellow Somali as a equal or even inferior, which leads them to have this desire to remove whatever leader there is in power and replace them with their own.
Siad Barre did it with the iron fist, but look where that took him, the cronies in his regime stirred up a little trouble and that eventually led to a civil war that ended for some in 1991, but carried on for others for 20 years.
Let me be the first to say I will never support a union between the two current governments, Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud is nothing but a appointed stooge to me, and let's just say Silaanyo re-introduced tribal politics in Somaliland after replacing most of his cabinet ministers with unknown men from his tribe (Xirsi Gaab?)
My main contention with recognition is that we will become a weak nation vulnerable to the seductive investment plans from the international co-operations. Somalis have to become a robust self-sufficient nation, feeding it's people it's own grain, treating it's various clans equally (unlike Siad's bizarre rule on Hargeisa where he prevented the construction of buildings larger than two storeys).
I love Somaliland , we don't have to throw away our flag, it's just that we should not be naïve to the criminal loan sharks like the IMF who will seize the opportunity to put us in a cycle of debt..
A wolf attacks the lone sheep.
