Where Somaliland Will Go If It Forgot What Makes Its Name Great?
A quarter of century and a couple of years on, in a globalised world where every country can see how the other country handles its affairs and in an era in which information exchange is greatly facilitated by advances in technology, Somaliland still remains a country where truth never defeats false assumptions.
An ego is an illusion that sometimes lets some people worship their own desires. Taking your ego as your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Failure to believe that you are what you have or what you do, is a wrong way of assessing and living life.
Somaliland politics looks like the little last-born in a big, disintegrating family that forgets its name and game, which is more likely to change its color ten times than that of its predecessor, which buzzes with much excitement and astonishment. What is more amazing than that is that Somaliland political establishment likes to make itself like the model which anyone could suggest to it, easily to learn for whatever is fit for the son of a birch to learn. Awareness of what distinct parallels in its original agenda it is bound to, does not remain a national sentiment inside its heart, expressing itself in such areas as morality and regard to what it finds that holds in its respect, as well as in that of the public.
People who were not affected and never sought to affect others, are now themselves affected somehow or the other by the possession of opulent wealth and the privileges that power could build. One good example of this is that he who was a religious man, he who was a hard worker, and he who was an honest man, fell prey to the blessing of power and wealth and then became a predator.
Hands are our organs of grasp, our sense of touch, and our organs of hold, our test to put before our eyes when it is dark. What makes our politics for national planing measurably emotive?
Somaliland’s social progress Index (SPI) launched in the middle of this year asks the questions that are fundamental to the wellbeing of Somaliland population: Does Somaliland country have the capacity to satisfy the basic needs of its people? Does Somaliland country have the infrastructure and the instruments to allow its citizens and communities to improve their quality of life? Does Somaliland country offer the proper services for its citizens to have the opportunity to reach their full potential? Is Somaliland government system going better or getting worse under the present leadership day after day?
The consistency between our words and deeds comes to exist only when we begin to practise what we preach and believe in what we say and do.
People are not crazy all time. Nor their politics behaves crazy in the passages of time. Instead there are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the prosperity of a comfortable past which, in fact, never exists.
Good leaders always leave their ego at the gates of their offices.
By: Jama Falaag
Hargeisa, Somaliland.
