Hello fellow Somalis, I’m not an expert in Somali politics or any politics in general. However, i tune in from time to time or hear from my parents how the country is doing.
I have been keeping up a bit too much in the past couple of months and today we hear that the ATIMS troops aren’t actually leaving they are rebranding and staying under different name, and with the country moving towards centralization the president can deploy those troops if he wants. Not to mention the EAC which in their charter is written that they can also send in their troops whenever they need to, just like how they are doing in DRC.
like I said I’m not an expert but Somalia looks like they are headed to becoming a neo-colony babysat by these troops. They clearly have no interest in solving the al shabab problem they have yet to free one land from them. I’m saying that is because I saw that a clan took up arms and succeeded in freeing some of their lands from al shabab. They want to tell us with all their intelligence and backing they can’t do that? they’ve been in the country since like 2012? What have they achieved other than the sexual assaults and collaborating with the al shabab in their charcoal trade?
I don’t know if PL can survive alone nor do I know if they are politically corrupted too, I’m just wondering because I found out that they have the option to leave (and I guess SL will automatically leave too idk) but are our politicians weighing their options right and taking this seriously?
This seems like the last stop. The people the wrote the constitution and put that option knew something or were expecting things might really not work out, otherwise they wouldn’t have put that option or thought about it. (please don’t turn this into a hate I’m genuinely wondering and in no shape or from I’m praising AY here)
I still want greater and free Somali peninsula but we are so far from that than we were in 1977. I’m just being a realist the politics back home is so depressing. I don’t want to see another Somali land under the mercy of these mercenaries (I might be biased because I’m from there but even if I weren’t I still wouldn’t want that)
This Twitter account (@/ dqdelite) I came across (sadly she tweets in Somali a bit hard to read) raises great concerns and it is what made me genuinely wonder and come on ramble here.
the other thing is, correct me if I’m wrong, with centralized government the states won’t be able to develop their regions as the funds would go the central gov right? If that’s the case all the states would be waiting for hamar to develop them, this could take so much time, we are not 3 million anymore like we were in 1960s/1970s and concentrated in few places, it would be impossible to delegate all of the things to a central government.
how do you think things are headed? would this be a good choice or just another mistake and regret? And are the PL politicians studying this constitution?
and please do not turn this into a fight
I have been keeping up a bit too much in the past couple of months and today we hear that the ATIMS troops aren’t actually leaving they are rebranding and staying under different name, and with the country moving towards centralization the president can deploy those troops if he wants. Not to mention the EAC which in their charter is written that they can also send in their troops whenever they need to, just like how they are doing in DRC.
like I said I’m not an expert but Somalia looks like they are headed to becoming a neo-colony babysat by these troops. They clearly have no interest in solving the al shabab problem they have yet to free one land from them. I’m saying that is because I saw that a clan took up arms and succeeded in freeing some of their lands from al shabab. They want to tell us with all their intelligence and backing they can’t do that? they’ve been in the country since like 2012? What have they achieved other than the sexual assaults and collaborating with the al shabab in their charcoal trade?
I don’t know if PL can survive alone nor do I know if they are politically corrupted too, I’m just wondering because I found out that they have the option to leave (and I guess SL will automatically leave too idk) but are our politicians weighing their options right and taking this seriously?
This seems like the last stop. The people the wrote the constitution and put that option knew something or were expecting things might really not work out, otherwise they wouldn’t have put that option or thought about it. (please don’t turn this into a hate I’m genuinely wondering and in no shape or from I’m praising AY here)
I still want greater and free Somali peninsula but we are so far from that than we were in 1977. I’m just being a realist the politics back home is so depressing. I don’t want to see another Somali land under the mercy of these mercenaries (I might be biased because I’m from there but even if I weren’t I still wouldn’t want that)
This Twitter account (@/ dqdelite) I came across (sadly she tweets in Somali a bit hard to read) raises great concerns and it is what made me genuinely wonder and come on ramble here.
the other thing is, correct me if I’m wrong, with centralized government the states won’t be able to develop their regions as the funds would go the central gov right? If that’s the case all the states would be waiting for hamar to develop them, this could take so much time, we are not 3 million anymore like we were in 1960s/1970s and concentrated in few places, it would be impossible to delegate all of the things to a central government.
how do you think things are headed? would this be a good choice or just another mistake and regret? And are the PL politicians studying this constitution?
and please do not turn this into a fight
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