Chairman Cirro surrounded by the Burco looters is a bad news.

[galbeedi]

Well, we are in an election or selection season in Hargeisa and the major debate among the Habro is how to continue the project and allow a new greedy clan to enrich themselves and loot the public coffers once again. There is no secret or debate that whoever is in charge and his clan will leave very rich with millions after their 7 or 8 years in office despite the legal term of the so-called president being 5 years.

 

The best example of this is the East Burco looters. People talk about certain anarchists and looters in southern Somalia, but those in the south are mostly in private business or got rich with lack of national government. These looters from Burco had used the system to get rich and rob everyone in a day light. The two richest men in Hargeisa politics today are:  Mohamuud Hashi and Hersi A. Hassan (Hirsi Gaab). These two guys were not bankers, top ministers or even in charge of the treasury, yet they achieved the biggest theft of resources  by Somali politicians for the last 54 years. In July 2010 the would be president Ahmed Siilaanyo,  who otherwise was a capable man throughout his life,  suffered stroke and lost most of his cognitive elements. While he was physically fine in terms of movements and appearances, his mental decline through dementia was well known. 

 

When the issue of his mental decline became apparent, the logical scenario was to place him under the care of his family and transfer the power to his deputy. After long debate the family decided to conceal the illness as much as possible and take the power. Two unelected people, His wife Amina and his chief of staff Hirsi Gaab decided to exercise the power and hide the sick man behind the scene. In order to minimize the opposition they appointed almost 70 members of the cabinet, they increased the salary of the ministers from $500 to $5000 dollars a month and added another $5000 dollars for a consultant for the minister. Thus,  every minister hired one of his cousins, paid him a couple of thousand dollars and pocketed the rest. Other methods to silence critics were that when they fired a minister they allowed him to keep the government vehicle and keep his full salary.

 

Furthermore, rather than being isolated, they went to London, Istanbul and other capitals by accepting the one Somalia policy in order to access millions of funds for development.They falsely entertained two presidents from Unaka community by appearing to be unionists and dumped them when they got their cash. From 2010-2014, the security situation of southern Somalia was so bad that most of the capacity building funds were allocated to the Hargeisa regime and in smaller ways to Puntland. Hundreds of millions poured in from the European Union, UK, USA, Turkey, UAE and specifically from Denmark and others. For instance, $152 million was donated to improve Hargeisa city water needs.  millions for electric grid from world bank, health care improvement and money for other developments including irrigation, education and road construction.Very dew of these projects were implemented.

The Hargeisa water project was the biggest failure of all the developments with fractions, probably less than $40 million spent to build pipes to haul water. As we speak the city uses trucks, donkeys and other means to get water. That money was stolen by Mohamuud Hashi.

The looting of the development money was made easy by the foreign NGO’s based in Nairobi and by DahabShiil bank. One well known method was firing the minister in charge of the project as soon as the transfer of the money began. They, I mean Hirsi Gaab and Mr. Hashi who both had 4 years and 3 years in charge as chiefs of staff of Mr. Siilaanyo or I should say as cabinet chiefs, kept  monitoring the development files and when the funds were supposed to be released by the donors, they either fired the minister or transferred him to another portofolio. Since there is no national bank to transfer the money, they use Dahabshill in Nairobi to take the money and release the funds as per their wish. To make the scheme proof of any middleman or a wrong person to question their scheme, they appointed a so-called Nairobi representative who was the son in law of Ahmed Siilaanyo,  Cawil Morgan. That young man Mr. Morgan had retired in Dubai with millions.b was called

By the end of the seven years of Siilaanyo term,  they both ended up with $40 or $50 million each. Hersi Gaa( Afartan Jir Afartan malyuun Haysta) a 40 years old man with $40 million dollars. As the so- called election concludes,  both of them have bought their own political parties and are in charge of Waddani and Kaah. The latter will be replacing UCID. While it is good news that the political prostitute and loud mouth Faysal Waraabe will be out of the picture while cashing millions from Ina Biixi, the looters from Burco are bad news for all. 

 

The delusional Prof. Samater, who is out of touch like his other brother in Mogadishu,  had lost his way by either sucking up to Biixi or dithering on both sides. He made a decision a while ago and quit the project, yet ended up being  called again by Biixi after his left over party joined Waddani. Since he is a very cheap carpetbagger, he was bought and sold by Biixi at will. He has zero chance of getting any traction at this time. 

 

The Hungry West Burco guys who were sidelined for  over 30 years had to make a deal with looters Hersi Gaab and Ina Haashi to finance their campaign and  pay the East Burco elders including the gangster called Buurmadow to win this time around. When the Ceel Af Weyn clan war was raging a few years back,  Buurmadow was one of the elders who signed a peace deal that failed.  During the deliberations the east Burco elders were asked to put their hands on the Qur’aan for the swearing ceremony. Buurmadow decided not to put his hand on the top of the good book but put his hand over five or six  others knowing that he wouldn't be honoring his oath. That is who Buurmadow is ( Waar gacmaha kale ha iga horeeyaan anigu Kitaab gacanta saari maayee). Usually, it is the business lobbyists who finance election, but here in Hargeisa,  two unelected bureaucrats with no history of wealth are bankrolling everything. 

 

To make the story short , despite the loss of SSC Khaatumo and the forgone conclusion of East Sanaag ( Badhan, Hadaaftimo, Laasqorey and Dhahar), the Habro through that a new hungary group might be able to continue the project. With two lieutenants of Siilaanyo and all corrupt politicians sitting in Hargeisa hotels joining Waddani,  nothing will change.

How Awdal State will deal with this new Waddani group.

by far Waddani is a huge threat to our liberation movement for many reasons.

First, the Waddani or I should say the GX propaganda of the last five years had reached everywhere including many Somalis and Awdalites. They portrayed themselves as pro Somali pragmatists who were willing to deal with the unity issues without fear or precondition. They appealed to the Awdal community and even encouraged their internal uprising. Furthermore, many Awdalites see themselves as the natural allies of the GX community. They were allies during the Rayaale reign and were in the same boat for the last 14 years of Jeegaan alliance.

 

Secondly,  they denounced most of the ugly anti Somali actions and rhetoric  coming from the Biixi and his clan. These and many other actions may cloud the judgments of the larger Somali and Awdalite public. For us, the Awdal State, we prefer Muusee Mideeye to steal the election and confront us. Yet, despite the good will of the GX, I will urge the people of Awdal to ignore the Habro Shalango taking their turn and focus on the main issue at hand which is ruling your own region and developing your ports, airports and roads. 

 

Time will tell if the hungry GX will act overzealously with the project and create more mess. Unlike the west Hargeisa crowd who are naturally  discrete in their verbal attacks, the GX truly have a loud and vulgar mouth that will be felt quickly by most Somalis. While east Burco folks are the  most odious in terms of vulgar insults and need a mouthwash, the south Hargeisa crowd of sand dwellers and others are well known for their swearing on religion and sacred things.

Furthermore, If chairman Cirro keeps the status quo and thinks he could extend the life of the separatists project, he will find himself in a loud awakening. With the dangers coming from Ethiopia and others in the region, the anti Somalia and isolationist policy of the project will not only fail, but the unemployment and economic stagnation will eventually catch up to him. With dwindling coffers, and hungry entourage that surrounds Cirro at the moment, he won’t be able to manage unless he changes the course.

This is my first salvo to the current campaign. I will add my few senses in the coming weeks.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Ciiro will be a great president and he will serve his country and this time we will hunt our enemies. The duriyad clan now seem to be United and hargeisa is singing and turning orange . For two long others have tried to create friction between brothers. East Burco west burco south hargeisa north hargeisa today we are one. And it is a lie that wadani is leaning towards unity with the bunker never. If that was the case they would have never turn this big .

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Muuse Muqayil waliba Xabashi dabada ka riixeyso been been kuma dhiibaayo xilka. He will self-declare as a winner and his subclan will back him. Cirro as usual will be too weak and dither.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Somaliland doesnt belong to a clan it belongs to all of Somalilanders if bixis loses he will give the keys to the kingdom to the successor of his .  We have institutions we have the guurti and the army .