How Cigaal and SNL robbed Micheal Mariano the 1959 election by Sir Douglas Hall

[Aadan Jugle]

Somaliland's Last Year as a Protectorate

by Sir DOUGLAS HALL, K.C.M.G

 

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to a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Commonwealth

Society on December 1, 1960. Sir Theodore Pile, K.C.M.G. took the chair

 

 

The Somali National League kept their thought largely to them-selves, at any rate in public, while the National United Front published their displeasure in speeches. It was not long before the new party showed signs of seeking an association with the Somali National League, and a short time before the election a formal alliance was made. This was followed rapidly by the publication of an association between the National United Front and the small number of members of the Somali Youth League. The stage was then set for a straight contest between two pairs of parties, one member of each pair being considerably larger than the other, but not a great deal of difference lying between the combined contestants. The election presented some thorny and worrying problems of maintenance of law and order. There were to be over 150 polling stations, any one of which could become a major danger point at short notice, especially if either the fall of rain or plain politics should result in last minute movements of nomads of opposing parties or tribes. Every policeman and every soldier in the Protectorate was deployed ; and I would like to pay tribute to the efforts made by the political leaders to ensure that their supporters behaved them-selves. One of our main worries was how the women would behave. They had no vote, but they were surprisingly politically-conscious, and there is nothing that an administrator dislikes more than a riot of women. However, the Somalis themselves decided that the election should be orderly, and it was. There were no incidents worthy of the name and for the whole of February 17th not a woman was to be seen. They had all been kept at home by their husbands. Nearly 82,000 men cast their votes, a number which is at least 80 per cent and probably more nearly 90 per cent of the total adult male population. The result was unusual and unexpected in detail. The Somali National League/ United Somali Party combine secured approximately 56,000 votes as against 25,000 won by their opponents. But the votes of the winners gained them 32 out of the 33 seats. It cannot often happen that a party which can claim nearly one-third of all the votes cast, gains one seat only as a result. The detailed results showed twenty seats for the Somali National League, twelve for the United Somali Party, and one, Michael Mariano himself, for the opposition. Immediately after the election, Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal was formally acknowledged as the Leader of both Somali National League and the United Somali Party, and I was left in no doubt as to whom I should consult about the appointment of elected ministers. He gave me his advice on 26th February, and I appointed him as Minister of Local Government, Ahmed Haji Dualeh as Minister of Natural Resources, and Ali Gerad Jama and Haji Ibrahim Nur as Ministers of Works and Communications and Social Services respectively. I also appointed Yusuf Ismail Samatar as an Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Social Services. The first two were members of the Somali National League, and the second two members of the United Somali Party. The Assistant Minister belonged to the Somali National League. With one exception, all were fluent speakers of English and had had considerable formal education. Haji Ibrahim Nur, although not completely happy in English, was a fluent speaker and writer of Arabic and, as a successful trader, had a fund of experience which he quickly began to put at the disposal of the government of which he had become a part. It was not long before the promises about immediate independence, which had been made in pre-election speeches and in the Somali National League manifesto, began to catch up on their makers. I do not imply that there was any feeling against the attainment of Independence ; but a number of Somalis -politicians, civil servants, traders and elders-believed that there would be great advantage in a short period of consolidation and the gaining of experience before the next and the biggest step was taken. But they were in a small minority, and it was not possible for them to come out into the open with pleas for delay. I have heard it said that we officials in the Government did not know what was happening and which way the wind was blowing. This was not true. I think we saw the way the picture was forming before some of the political leaders. Events soon started moving rapidly; a motion asking for Independence by 1st July was passed in the Legislative Council and visits were paid to Mogadishu by leading political figures, who returned to Hargeisa with assurances from their colleagues in Somalia that amalgamation of the two countries was a mutual wish.

[Aadan Jugle]

The UNF won 25,000 votes , the SNL won 56,000 vote. The Khaatumo Nuts won 0. and Cigaal then robbed 12 seats from NUF and gave it to Khaatumo Nuts. and Micheal Mariano party only 1 seat.

 

Now some 52 years later these Nuts think they worth that much.

[faarah22]

i love khatumo folks god bless them, they have been throwing monkey wrenches in the secessionist projects since 1952.

[Aadan Jugle]

You are a Khaatumo Nut, don't act like you are a Chines who support these people out of pure reason.

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[MoonLight1]

AUN Adan Jugle. a fallen snm hero.

[Che -Guevara]

Cut down in his prime by Afyweyenists.

[wiil]

Waa loo dige, wuuse maqli waaye

[Somalia]

LOOOOOOOL. Gone he is!

[Showqi]

Another nacaz gone................hihihi hihihihi