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I call it false pregnancy. The opposition want to deliver without having a baby in the womb. Bad luck for them. In Somaliland you can not enter the Government from the back door. What you need is to be elected and enter from the front door. No other way is possible. Running hysterically between Hargeisa and Buroa will not give you a seat in the cabinet. It gets as simple as that. The opposition want the election to be postponed, yet they want to be in the Government before the election date, before they even won or lost the elections they want to be Ministers.

As funny as usual this time they are breaking the books of records. Let me tell you something. If you win an election you come to Government, if you lose you stay out, and let me remind the two opposition parties that they lost three times in the run. One of that runs was a presidential contest, and that is why you remain in the wilderness of the opposition. Only after a win in the upcoming elections you could change places with the present Government and become Presidents and Ministers, coalition or whatever you might call it. Keep that in mind. There is no other way. Period. There is a lot of fuss being made by the President’s term coming to an end in May. I call that WISHFUL THINKING. Yes the President has been elected for a period of FIVE years., but the five years are not engraved in religious codification like the SALAAT and the SOOM. It could be shortened. It could be extended. All depend on whichever way the circumstances dictate. The term of office of the President could be shortened by impeachment. If both houses on a 2/3 majority pass and describe a fact done by the President as an impeachable act, the President will be relieved of his responsibilities and he or she will vacate the highest office of the nation. An argument of ; I am elected for five years will not be accepted. Similarly the term of the President could be extended if the UPPER HOUSE the famous GUURTI deems it essential for the nations security. It is constitutional. You can not pick and choose .as far as the constitution of Somaliland is concerned. If you do not agree with Guurti’s interpretation of the constitution- GO TO THE COURT. If you think the court will rule against you, I call it BAD LUCK AGAIN.
If you do not like the powers of the Guurti in extending the term of the President, GO MAKE A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. A bicameral passing of an amendment is possible by the support of the bill by 2/3 of the parliamentarians. If you care and you know it and you do want to show it , that is the way.. You can not blog your way to power. You can not either fight your way to power through street agitation.

A lot is being made nowadays of some Mujahid and some Faqash . Let me remind you a Historical fact. The SNM movement was formed by men who never in one day agreed with the dictator Siad Barre. Men like Duqsi,Wadadiid, Ahmed Jimale, Dr Abdisalaam Yassin, Mohamed Hashi, Sh Yusuf, Hassaan Issa, Dr Dihood, Abirahman Abiqaadir and many others. In the mid eighties there was a contest for the chairmanship of the SNM between Wadaadiid and Mr Siilanyo. Siilanyo was for thirteen years the right hand Minster of Economic Affairs for the Dictator Siad Barre. He laughed, argued, dined smoked and had photographed himself with Siad Barre for more than 2000 times. Yet , he faced in a contest for the leadership of SNM to Mr Wadadiid who was Siad Barre’s political prisoner for most of the thirteen years that Siilanyo was the Dicators Minister. In the SNM battlefield politics the Faqash man was preferred to the prison veteran of Siad Barre. I myself would have may have preferred Siilanyo over Wadiid at tha time, but today I prefer Mr Rayalle. Old African politicians like Siilanyo, Mugabe , Kibaki and Abdillahi Yusuf should be retired to the MUSEUM. They should worry about their memoirs. Today’s problems are too hard for their reflexes to respond to. Dr Gaboose is more versed in geriatrics sciences than I may claim, however, I am sure he will write rest time for all of the them. One old man who .did not listen to the docs advise had destroyed everything around
him, and we know the rest of the story.

Mohamud Tani