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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, September 19, 2009 (SL Times) – With the confrontations
between Somaliland’s government and the parliamentary majority hardly
over, Somaliland’s government is already busy at work picking a fight
with the Chairman of the House of Elders, Mr. Suleiman Mahmoud Adan.
In an interview with reporter Khadar Akule of Universal Television,
Foreign Minister Abdillahi Mohammed Duale accused the Chairman of the
House of Elders of conspiring to take over the presidency. The terms
used by the foreign minister to describe Mr Suleiman M. Adam’s supposed
conspiracy veered from colorful street language such as jumping in
through the window (daaqad kaga soo bood), dreaming and sleepwalking (ninka
seexday ee riyooday ee soo dhaqaaqay isagoo aan toosin), to the more
serious charges “coup d’etat” (inqilab) and the “the biggest inciter” (fidnada
ugu weyn).
Asked about the foreign minister’s statements, the Chairman of the House
of Elders said he will not respond to a minister but will do so if the
president makes such claims.
The House of Elders had initiated talks with the political parties in
order to prod them to reach an agreement between them prior to the
Sept.27 date of the deferred elections. Most Somalilanders appreciate
the Upper House’s mediation efforts and see the attacks on the chairman
as a sign that the government is so obsessed with perpetuating its rule,
it will attack whoever it perceives as standing on its way regardless of
who they are or the consequences.
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