It’s time to stand up to the Somali election extortion

[Deeq A.]

We all agree that Somalia cannot claim to have a history of clean election. Since the first electoral consultations of 1954, election results had, to a certain extent, been tempered with. By all accounts, the last combined political and municipal elections held in 1969, under the parliamentary system of government, are remembered as the worst ever held in the country for the scale of irregularities and abuses which characterized the exercise. Those of my generation obviously recall, for instance, the much celebrated political scandal which involved the elections of Bur Hakaba District in1969. The case had attracted a lot of public attention and discussion in Somalia becoming a cause célèbre.

Source: Hiiraan Online