State failure is a man made calamity:
What ever happened to the “prevention is better than cure?” heartless with rotten conscience so, called leaders fail people and states because of their dictatorial tendencies, greed, corruption and ignorance. They reject consultations, they hate dissent voices and instead they depend on gun and the tribe. They create tribal rivalries, civil wars as well as regional ones. Instead of waiting and waiting and waiting until the state crashes and civil unrest takes root why don’t the international community stop the perpetrators who happened to be the leaders before it is too late. The international community can do that by helping the forces of change, by encouraging and or enforcing consultation, corrections and conflict resolution.
When it is said to them “make not harm on the earth” they say “we are only ones that put things right.” of a surety they are the ones who make harm; but they realize it not. Much harm is caused (some times unwittingly) by people who think that they have a mission of peace and prosperity, when they have not even a true perception of right and wrong, by their blind ignorance and arrogance. In fact they depress the good and encourage the evil” (Albaqra V-11, 12) Siilanyo’s administration argues that they are the ones that put things right when indeed they have no perception of right and wrong. They depress the good and do the evil. Their arrogance is leading them to do the evil and refute the good.
States don’t fail overnight. The seeds of their destruction are sown deep within their leaders and political institutions. Some countries fail severely, with a total collapse of all state institutions like Liberia, Somalia, Afghanistan, after the Soviet withdrawal and Sierra Leone, where the governments there ceased to exist altogether. States fail when they are consumed by corruption with out bounds, injustice, incompetent officials, internal squabble, conflicts and violence. Such States cease delivering constructive political goods to their people. The government loses credibility. People don’t trust the government and the government does not trust her people. In such situation the continuing nature of the state itself becomes questionable and illegitimate and not valid in the hearts and minds of its citizens. (Ref: why Nations fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson June 18, 2012)
In the hearts and minds of Somaliland citizens the continuing nature of Siialnyo’s administration became questionable and will soon be illegitimate after June 26, 2015. The two houses of congress are already illegitimate for their terms in office were expired long time ago. The President is heading there and is going to join the ‘doe’ the parliament and the Guurti!! Together the ‘Trio’ will be illegitimates bodies who are not accountable to the people but to their own interests. Where is the elected government?
State failure is not unintentional It is primarily man made. It stems from leadership flaws, institutional fragilities, corruption, injustice and disregard of the constitution of the state. When governments are collapsing, the process of disintegration of a failed government damages institutions and destroys the underlying understandings between the government and the people. This is true in Siilanyo administration where there is a distance between the people and the government. Unconscionable elements deceive the people and get their way into power in some fashion or the other. Fraud leaders reject to relinquish power even when their capacity is diminishing, even when they are too sick to execute their duties and even when the country is slipping into chaos and civil unrest.
Most countries that fall apart do so not all of a sudden and not in an explosion of violence but in gradual move until they reach that destination. They fail by being utterly unable to take advantage of their society’s huge human and material potential for growth. They fail to dispense justice evenly among their societies. What’s heartbreaking is that this failure is by design. These states collapse because they are ruled by pocket-and- belly politicians with no conscience! The institutions are there for the benefit of elites who gain much from the extraction and squeezing from the poor people by way of over taxing them. Elites benefit from rigged political institutions, exert their power to tilt the system for their benefit.
Siilanyo’s government is unable or unwilling to exert control some parties of the country, which is dominated by grieving or manipulated clans. The absence of the government from certain parties of the country leads not only to lack of public services, but also lack of public safety, security and stability
The nature of failure:
To qualify for failure a state needs to demonstrate that it has met most of the explicit criteria i.e.:
How truly minimal they respect their Constitution.
How they disregard the quality of the people running the state.
How far beyond the capital does the ambit of the central government reach?
How they disregard the quality, moral, education, character and the emotional bond Siilanyo’s collection have with the Republic of Somaliland
Civil conflict is decisive for state failure.
Somalia, a nation-state with common language, a common religion, and a shared history of nationalism–failed, and then collapsed. How could that happened? There are many possible explanations however, destructive leadership predominated all other factors. The administration was clanistic, inefficient, corrupt, and incapable of creating any kind of dialogue and national political cohesion
Siad Barre, commander of the army grabbed power in 1969. He suspended the constitution, banned political parties, and promised for a better days to come!
Twenty years and many misadventures, Siad Barre had succeeded in wrecking any semblance of national cohesion. Governmental legitimacy was out of the window. Siad Barre destroyed institutions of government, abused his citizens’ human rights. He declared a whole chunk of the country and a whole sector of his people- Somaliland people to be obliterated from the face of the earth!! He channeled as many of the resources of the state as he could into his own and his sub clan’s hands. His atrocious troops committed ethnic cleansing and genocide in Somaliland. In all these destructive activities the international communities were watching and did nothing.
Somalilanders refused to disappear. They resisted and in the end chased the brutal dictator away from Somaliland, (then Northern Regions) He sought refuge in Nigeria where he in the end committed suicide there
Conclusion:
When you do evil by not respecting the constitution and not listening your people and not learning your mistakes you then allow evil to occur. Somaliland leadership does it and let it occur. This is what is happening in Somaliland! Chairman Suleiman Gaal is ready for his stamp to legitimize by de-legitimizing the executive branch which so the executive is pleased to be there with his twin brothers the ‘Guurti and the Parliament’ which are already ill-legitimate for so long. after June 26-2015. That stamp of Chairman S. Gaal will allow Mr.Siilanyo to join the club of the illegitimate bodies which are accountable to NO One! This exclusive club will in its nature render Somaliland to a collapsed state and the laughing stock of the world but it seems that they don’t care a bit! Chairman Suleiman may help his cousin by his (illegitimate) stamp of approval to stay beyond his term in office even when this defies the constitution of the state. The question is-how far can this sustain?
The chairman may be on the script of the exclusive tribal gathering in “Garadag” which he pledged that he will support his cousin in all situations. The question not thought much of was that when Mr. Suleiman executes the tribal advise he forfeits the holy and prophetic command which says,” Support your brother when he is wrong by telling him that he is wrong and thus stop him to cause harm” Suleiman is not following what our Prophet commanded us to do, therefore in this situation Satan, greed and the clan led- mentality seems prevailing. When things happen this way, expect nothing good from it. Somaliland is there now.
In Somalia Siyad Bare emphatically said, “if you kick me out so Somalia will go with me” this means no more Somalia after me. What is Siilanyo saying regarding Somaliland?! Late Egale of Somaliland was attributed that he said,” Somaliland people are simpletons and I don’t want to take advantage of their situation. Some one else will come after me and will take advantage of them” well, that is not accurate. Late Egale took advantage of the people he called them simpletons so many times in so many ways Siialnyo may be the one President Egale prophesied.
It seems that Mr. Siilanyo is saying, “am laughing at those simpletons who believed everything they hear and who allow them selves to be caught so easily in the traps set for them” Siilanyo broke the record of deceiving his people and taking advantage of the people who trusted him and the country which gave him every thing!
The international community intervenes after the fact. What has happened to the ‘Prevention is better than cure?’
To save poor Somaliland from havoc and misery intervention by way of Consultation and Corrections from cultural and local civic organization is the urgency of now even though Mr. Siilanyo has rejected that noble and life and state saving call. Prevention is always preferable and less costly than remediation. Mr. Siilanyo administration rejected that too. International organizations, the major powers, regional hegemony, all have a strategic and moral responsibility to intervene on behalf of beleaguered citizens under obstinate and astray administration and to reduce losses of life. Perpetrators of this mayhem which happens to be the rulers must be rounded up and put them on international court in Haig or else where.
How ever peace and prayers
Ibrahim M Mead
Ottawa, Canada