A CONDESCENDING AND ALL KNOWING AHMED ISMAIL BLAMES HIS SHORTCOMINGS ON HIS UGAAS
In a question and answer public forum session with the people of Awdal, Professor Ahmed Ismail Samatar of Hillaac political party finally showed his true colors.
Speaking a mix of Somali and English and coming across as a tenured professor lecturing his students, he told the audience that if they want to change their situation they must acquire "power, power, the power to make changes," and in summary that power is to vote and for me and for Hillaac Party, so said the professor.
Continuing with his lecture on how to acquire power, the professor sternly speaking to the gathered crowd as his students told them, "Listen to me, people of Awdal, listen to me my clansmen, you have to learn how to acquire power. You know nothing about how to get to power. That book is still beyond your grasp."
The Professor turned politician wasn't yet done with his lecture. Pompously claiming himself and his Hillaac Party as their only arbiter to power, Ahmed Ismail condescendingly tells his audience that "the only reason you are still in dungeons and in dark holes and blind to all and ways of power is because you are ignorant of the ways to get to power."
And he wasn't done yet with the insults and his pomposity. Blaming his failures on his Ugaas, Ugaas Abdirashid Ugaas Rooble, and not capable of properly addressing the Ugaas with the esteemed title of Ugaas, but rather calling the Ugaas by his first name only, Ahmed Ismail told the audience, "I got to know Abdirashid. I talk to him often. Abdirashid, the Ugaas, has a right to free speech, and we should all defend his rights. However, he has to think of the consequences of his speech. I believe our Ugaas doesn't have capable people around him who give him advice. I know it. There are none. He is alone. Yes, there are folks running around him, but they are people with no understanding and have no slight idea of what is going on around them."
Getting restless and more sure of himself and his party, Prof. Ahmed Ismail went on to reject Ugaas Abdirashid Ugaas Rooble's declaration that "Somaliland leave our land," but instead told the people what the Ugaas should have said that day.
"The Ugaas should have said, 'we support Hillaac Party, and the party represents the people of Awdal; hence, if our party isn't treated fairly by Somaliland, my people will find a new direction.' That is what he should have said," so selfishly was the crowd told by the Professor they had so much hope to lead them to the promised land. Instead, disappointment settled in, and the crowds slowly exited the venue.