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By: Amiin Dahir
Many of us, who are praying for change to happen in our motherland, are
advised to start the change process wherever they are. Let’s change for
good. I will agree with early Cabdulahi Suldan timo Cade, when he poet
in one of his advice (tribalism is destruction) that if you want to make
the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change. In
the same way, Somalilanders should first take a look at themselves and
start the change. We have role models to copy or follow their ideas.
If a small percentage of us start this change process wherever they are
and be consistent, then there could be hope to revive Somaliland. We
have to remember that we have a choice to either save Somaliland or sink
Somaliland. To save Somaliland we have a duty to start the change
process immediately. Every little positive effort will matter a lot.
Failure to save Somaliland disastrous.
But I must caution people that, there will be no quick fix to Somaliland
as problem. Changing the entire Somaliland system will be a difficult
project; therefore we should be prepared for a tough project. Many of us
will resist changes. Change itself is difficult. Many of Somalilanders
who are below 30 years have known no other system except the present day
Somaliland system. Therefore changing more than half of the population
will be tough and challenging. This is the more reason why any person
that desires change should start changing his/her environment in any
small way that is possible.
The grassroots will be a good starting point for changes. Change comes
not from the top down but from the ground up. Management of people at
the grassroots is very essential for any successful change.
Revolutionaries all over the world have high sense of patriotism and
have introduced positive changes to the lives of their people. Same
should apply to Somalilanders seeking to start quiet revolution or
change. Henceforth it will be ideal for Somalilanders to be thinking of
individual/private sector led change of the Somaliland system. There are
a lot of changes that the civil society can spearhead. Also changing
Somaliland is burden for all of us, therefore the earlier we start
changing our nation the better for all of us. May God bless Somaliland
Democracy is not compatible with police or military dictatorship. In a
democracy, the desire of the people is supreme, there is complete
freedom of expression and there is no barrier of cast, creed, community,
minority, majority, religion and language in a true democracy. Democracy
is not possible without the full participation of every section of the
people of the country where a village will be the basic unit. Hence a
democratic person should work only for the reservation of the democracy
instead of for the interest of his political party.
I don’t think this crisis has created by one person or two but more than
that. Yes, Riyale, leadership and Udub is on top to take the
responsibility of some of the problems but Electoral Commission have
their share of creating this mess.
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