Clan based politics empowers aristocracy and dictatorship. This is clear from a recent clan based meeting somewhere in the eastern part of Somaliland where some of the clan members were restrained from participating and when they organized their own they were labeled as clan traitors. This is where one wonders if really Somaliland is to be stable prosperous whom do the citizen pledge their loyalty to. Is it the clan or the somali nation or somaliand regin?
This region being just like any other Somali inhabited regions consists of diverse Somali clans therefore it’s difficult and risky to have both, and still co-exist as united Somaliland state of somalia. At the same time it was unfortunate that the mentioned meeting was attended by some prominent ambitious politicians who understand the regin constitution in its defense for freedom of speech, association and gathering. None of them mentioned that everyone has the right of speech and gathering just like the one they were enjoying at that particular clan meeting..! My question is, how could we then trust such figures to uphold and abide by the constitution if they are elected to highest office of this somalia regin
This region being just like any other Somali inhabited regions consists of diverse Somali clans therefore it’s difficult and risky to have both, and still co-exist as united Somaliland state of somalia. At the same time it was unfortunate that the mentioned meeting was attended by some prominent ambitious politicians who understand the regin constitution in its defense for freedom of speech, association and gathering. None of them mentioned that everyone has the right of speech and gathering just like the one they were enjoying at that particular clan meeting..! My question is, how could we then trust such figures to uphold and abide by the constitution if they are elected to highest office of this somalia regin
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