By Yusuf Abdi Odowaa, London, UK

Almost every Somalilander who cares deeply and passionately about his/her country is aware that Somaliland is at crossroads at the moment, as it emerges from the world of political un-accountability to the modern world of political accountability.

This is the bedrock between the daily skirmishes between the Somaliland parliament and the government of president Dahir Rayaale.

Somalilanders, wherever they are in the world are aware and grateful of the tremendous ways that the parliament is trying to kerb the excesses of the government and have steadfastly refused to be intimidated and short exchanged by Mr Rayale’s government.

The public have also been doing their bits and have joined the parliamentarians in exerting pressure on the government in upholding the rule of the country and to be accounted for its policies.

The peaceful mass demonstration/s which took place in Hargeysa and Burco fews days ago is the latest testimony to the tireless efforts that the public have been engaged in waking up the president and his inner circle to the fact that the time of the quasi totalitarianism is over and its high time that their actions and in actions are to be scrutinized by the parliamentarians, as of course that’s the job that they were elected for, rather than being used as rubber stumps as the previous one.

However, its incredibly and unimaginably unfortunate that the leader of the biggest opposition party namely Kulmiye, has chosen at this delicate moment of time to take his party back to an all time low by displaying the same dictatorial traits that he labels his opposite numbers and in particular the president.

In fact, he’s gone one level lower in so many people’s estimates by applying and resorting to the rule of tribalism and smearing and defaming the good names of his most conscious lieutenants when they start to speak against the death trap that he‘s leading to the party.

To be more precise, to deny Osman Hindi, his freedom of thought is to deny what can be considered one's most basic freedom; to think for one's self.

Osman Hindi’s rejection and criticism to the method that the chairman has allocated the delegates to the forth coming general election of the party is to deny his 'freedom of thought’. Freedom of thought is the corner stone of any democratically rooted political party, and should have been a fundamental principle that Chairman Sillanyo, should have been professing and practicing him self, instead of oppressing it.

The Chairman of Kulmiye has damaged his standing in his party and amongst the wider community irrecoverably, by oppressing free thinking and resorting to the law of the maximum leader. There is only one winner out of Kulmiye’s debacle and that’s CISMAAN HINDI, without a shadow of a doubt.

His conscious, principles and the duty that he owes to the youth and women of Kulmiye, has stopped him from turning the other cheek and allow his Chairman to trump the principles of the party.

The Kulmiye supporters and the general public applaud Mr Hindi;s heroism for standing up for the neglected women and the youth of the party, and not choosing the easy option of turning a blind eye unlike some of his comrades for cheap personal gains.

BRAVO TO YOU MR OSMAN HINDI, and SHAME ON YOU MR CHAIRMAN!