Mogadishu Calm As the Government Asks for Support of Clan Leaders

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Aweys Osman Yusuf

Mogadishu

 

The Somali government revealed Sunday that traditional elders and leaders of ******, Mogadishu's powerful clan, should attend the Somali National Reconciliation Conference which will be held on June as Abdulahi Yusuf, Somali president, announced in early March.

 

Mohammed Guled Gamo Dhere, Somali interior minister, who took part in Shabelle Radio program (The Focus) by phone from Lower Jubba provincial town of Kismayu, 500 km south of the capital, indicated the reconciliation conference is open for all Somalis.

 

"I urge the political leaders and traditional elders of ****** clan to give up opposing the transitional; and rather support it. They should join those who will attend the national reconciliation assembly. They should not incite violence in this country which has had no central authority for over 15 years," he said.

 

The volatile city Mogadishu has been calm for the third day following the fighting between government forces backed by the Ethiopian troops and Islamic Courts fighters. Despite massive lootings on civilian properties, the government soldiers have been evident in all main streets of the capital, searching cars and buses for guns and explosives.

 

Somali political analyst, Abdinasir Ahmed, says the routed Islamist fighters might come back in the intention of being suicide members. "If this UN and international recognized transitional government dose not come with a different political solution towards the people opposing its existence and its Ethiopian allied troops in the country, a new type of violence like suicide bombings will be seen in Mogadishu," he said.

 

Ahmed reiterated that the government's two top leaders, President Yusuf and premier Gedi, should be committed to peaceful dialog with the Islamists and the clan leaders to achieve a lasting political solution for the impoverished Horn of Africa country that has seen no affective central government since the ouster of former dictator, Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991.

 

These two leaders objected to including the routed Islamic leaders in the reconciliation process. Mr. Yusuf made clear early this year that his government will not let people posing as an organization to attend the conference.

 

Yesterday in a press conference he held at the presidential place, the president stated his government won the Islamic Courts fighters. "Those who have been wronged and misled do still have chance to give up their arms and go among their people. We will not let the terrorists be strong in our country again," he said.

 

The news comes as residents in Mogadishu were complaining after several houses and privately owned companies were ransacked by looters when government and Ethiopian soldiers occupied insurgent strongholds in north of the capital.

 

Hundreds of heavily armed men hired by business companies in and around Bakara market, south the capital, had to register themselves at a government police office opened near the market.

 

Many of them waddling their guns could be seen queuing outside the office to receive an identification card for their guarding jobs.

 

This form of registration was introduced by Abdi Qeybded, the commander of Somali national police force after he and Bakara trade committee convened in the capital on Saturday.

 

In the meeting, the trade committee has also agreed to surrender their heavy weaponries to the government. The government, its part, guaranteed to the committee that the security of Mogadishu business companies would be the responsibility of the transitional government, Qeybded, told journalists Saturday.

 

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Mogadishu Calm As the Government Asks for Support of Clan Leaders

Mystic, my dear sister, what so-called "government" are you talking about?

 

I don't know why some of you refer this nonexistent, nefarious, treachery puppet entity, dowlad ku sheega ah TFG or whatever. It is an insult to the respected word 'government,' and even more insulting to unflattery ones like regime, junta and totalitarian.

 

They are nothing but an assembled, hand-picked Xabashi group that marba si laga dhigan karo, like a kastuumo. Awood malaha, oo xataa cannot pay their toilet paper tissues, iskaba dhaaf wax kale ay qabtaan.

 

Call them what they and their Frail Traitor Stooge of Xabashadda really are -- treasonous stooges, puppets.

 

They never ruled and never will. Our Soomaali spirit is as high as it ever was.

 

Remember, the early days of Janaayo, what the Junior Stooge Geedi claimed? To hand over the weapons? That Muqdisho was safe? What happened since then?

 

Believe me waxyaaba xun ayaa soo socdo, things the old sycophant, manservant Frail Traitor Stooge of Xabashadda and his Xabashi masters had never experienced before. You watch and see.