TO: SG/HR Mr. Javier Solana, EU Security Office.
H.E. Ambassador Nur Hussein, Head EU Somalia Mission.
General Nathan Mugisha, AMISOM Force Commander.
General William Ward, Commander US AFRICOM
USAID Somalia Office, Nairobi, US Diplomats in the Horn of Africa.
H.E Ahmadou Ould Abdallah, US Special Envoy to Somalia
H.E Amb. Boubacar Goussou Diara, AU Special Envoy Somalia.
Copy: Dr. Kiza Besigwa, Chairman – UFD Opposition party, Uganda.
Mr. Chauvineau Ngwengezo, Spokesman, UPD Opposition party, Burundi
Leonce Ngendakumana, Chairman, Foreba Party, Oppostion, Burindi.
All Somali Members of the Parliament.
Presidents of Somaliland and Puntland.
Subject: The scandal behind the idea of training 6000 ordinary Somali soldiers
in Uganda instead of inside Somalia.
A country, nation, and people that I am deeply indebted to for all the privileges, opportunities and indeed saving my life and many others like me. Ethiopian students who fled the ruthless leader of the then Ethiopia, Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam. When we needed a true nation of African heroes, mercy, protection and outstanding human hospitality, we fled to Somalia.
It is with this memory and reflection in life that remains ingrained to my soul, that I prefer to call myself a genuine Somali in heart. Because I lived there long enough to appreciate the benefit of a humble nation of heroes, good Muslims and people of their word, promise and strength of a nation that shared one rich language, culture and was a shining star of Africa where every child knew every bit of African history of slavery, colonialism and tasted the bitter sides of putting up, resisting colonialism, and among them, the famous African patriot , Zayid Mohamed Abdula Hussan, the first African fighter who at multiple times, fought and defeated the mighty British Imperial Global armies of England. It was the fight in him, not whether he was eventually overpowered by modern war machinery that matters. This is the land and people whom colonial Europe used chemical weapons, aerial bombardments for the first time in Africa. This is a nation of heroes and with such a legacy that few know of it’s background.
It is from this backdrop that I believe that Somalis are for the last 18 years overrun by the modern machinery of foreigners’ greed, complex ideology including Islamic extremists, and other forces of exploitation and outright scavengers and profiteers of hunger, destitution and those that exploit when one is weak and disorganized. This is a nation where every possible institution of destruction such as the UNDP and WFP criminals in Nairobi use every possible trick in their books to do everything they can imagine to keep the status-quo of Somalia as it is, hopelessly stateless so that they can be accountable to no one but self serving machinery of corruption and greed at the expense of the loss of a whole nation and cripple it every day of the year. A hostage nation to UNDP, WFP / UNHCR and the African Union, who all profit from Somalia’s fall.
By bribing the Somali parliament through monthly stipends paying for their Qat addiction and other means involved in serious corruption, the present Somali government and the UN bodies as well as the new kids in town, the Ugandan and Burundian boy-mercenaries in Mogadishu, created a machinery of absolute mechanism that sinks the Somalis deeper and deeper into dependence and a convenient platform of exploitation. Temporary governments created to destroy their own people.
Recognizing that the salvation of any nation is its armed forces that behold the rule of law, these profiteers of destitution have been running a fake so called “rule of law capacity building” which earned them millions of dollars. However, it is the UNDP itself that undermined and creates a lose situation where police trainees are neglected and are re-injected into the direct destruction of Somalia itself, NOT to keep it emerge from chaos! Every so called security capacity building has been nothing but a happy recipe for creating extra force to level what is left of Somalia. Which of course serves UNDP for more urgent please for millions of dollars because Somalis is in trouble again, and again, and again. Milking the international community and squeezing every possible dollar from the Americans, the Arabs, Europeans and even other poor African countries under the flag ship of the sinking ship of Somalis, a situation that they (UNDP officers) themselves created and designed to be such for their own personal benefits. Many may not know but one of the senior UNDP officers is the very one that was instrumental in the de-fragmentation of Somalia by openly advocating for Somaliland’s departure of Somali unity. How could such person qualify to serve Somalis? It is only possible through UNDP and he is a senior shark in the Nairobi crown.
Indeed, the matter of essence here is this: Why are UNDP, the African Union, and Uganda suddenly asking millions of dollars from the EU for costs needed to train 6000 fake Somali ordinary foot-soldiers requiring millions of dollars. The Somali Prime minister signed this, the Somali Minister of Defense signed this and the Somali parliament was made to sign this ridiculous and scandalous act of absolute nonsense.
Ridiculous and scandalous because there is no single justification to parade 6000 ordinary soldiers from their own home country to another country just to train them how to fight each other worse than before. What patriotism does a soldier trained in another country bring from a country that is occupying bring to his own country? Uganda is nothing but an occupation army. Burundi is nothing but an occupation army. Both of these mercenaries are there to keep the status quo of Somalis stagnation in order!. How would one, any sane one, believe that 5,000 heavily armed African forces are needed to protect a bunch qat chewing addict fake parliamentarians? They are not protecting Somalis. Destroying it. These occupation mercenary armies need to leave Somalia and at once. If the Somali government fully backed and supported by all the money the world has cannot or is not motivated to defend itself, what is the purpose of keeping it afloat? Only one reason. Some one must be profiting from this mess. Where are the millions of dollars the United States donated to the Somali forces? Gone!. And deliberately diverted to the Islamists to even keep the mess going around for long time.
It is my conclusion that rather than wasting millions of dollars given to Uganda channel or corruption ‘handler’ and then some how filtered between the sharks (UNDP and the Somali government officials) the EU must do the following:
- The Somali Ministry of defense must call for an urgent assembly of qualified Somali military officers who can train their own fighters. Somalis have no shortage of battle hardened veteran combatants who can train the best military in Africa. The EU must directly finance the training programs not through brokers and profiteers such as Uganda and UNDP but appoint a senior board of veteran Somali Generals and give them the resources directly. They will do the job perfectly and create a credible force within 12 months. They are inside Somalia. One famous Somali hero known to many international powers and who is the Puntland forces UN liaison officer who is a Colonel.
- Reconstruct and rehabilitate the Somali forces training centers of the past. There are many facilities. As an Ethiopian, we were taught where the toughest Somali military training centers are. Some of these are in Puntland! A region that is safe to conduct the training of not only 6000 but 20,000 credible soldiers can be trained in Puntland. Recruits can be collected from all over Somalia and trained safely by veteran Somali military training officers without a single hitch. It is their own country!.
- The international community should abort this plan of sending Somalis to Uganda and spend the resources inside Somalia.
- The international community should relocate the 350,000 Somali refugees in Kenya back to Somalia and resettle them in Puntland and Somaliland. Somalis are kind to each other. The south Somalis helped resettle 1 million drought refugee Northerners in the 70’s/80’s. They can (Northern regions) now help resettle war refugees from the South. And the resources can help them too, instead of bankrolling Kenyan corruption that feeds on refugees. Where rape and abuse is rampant. Moving even 30% of these refugees to Puntland and Somaliland will be a great relief to the international community.
For the Somali Prime Minister and the Somali Minister of Defense, I have only one statement: Shame on you!. How could you allow diverting so much resource and intellect to Uganda when you have perfectly capable military training officers, and perfectly convenient place such as Puntland that you can train your forces?? Uganda is not even 50% space of Puntland? There are three or four military training camps in Puntland that need rehabilitation. It would not cost even 10% of the funds needed in Uganda to train these 6000 soldiers in Somali soil. Shame on you Mr. Prime Minister. If you are not a Somali, or know not Somalis and what they can do if properly supported, I will tell you this: Your people are people intelligent, committed and heroes. It would be fine to train few hundred senior officers and cadets in Kenya, Uganda or Ethiopia for several years. But dragging 6000 ordinary simple soldiers for training in Uganda, to say the least is a fishy business that smells dirty corruption only.
For the international community wondering what is going on in Somalia: Look no further. Stop funding Somalia’s death. Empower the Somalis by supporting projects, programs, defense strategies that owned by Somalis-to-Somalis. It makes no single sense that Nairobi is and remains the heart and soul of Somalia. Build Somalia from the bottom and start empowering the Somalis by building Somaliland as it is for now, Puntland as it is for now. These two sub-nations of Somalia are the most important ingredients of resurrecting Somalia out of the ashes. These organizations based in Kenya must either move to Somaliland and Puntland or cease to be the conduits of Somalia aid business. The administrations of Puntland and Somaliland are perfectly capable, if supported to serve as the source of life of new Somalia. However, one condition: Somaliland and Puntland should show credibility by fighting qat. A Qat chewing nation cannot take any responsibility. Otherwise, however these Islamists are misguided, as long as they oppose Qat and oppose WFP and UNDP they have the only key to Somalia’s eventual life after death. The international community must help any Somali leader that is ready to fight and stop Qat chewing in Somalia. I am convinced that if 6000 non qat chewing soldiers are trained, they will do what no one did during the last 18/19 years. They will free Somalis from any enemy and rebuild Somalia’s military strength overnight and create the best African nation in Africa.
If the international community fails to understand this and proceeds to finance this scandalous operation of sending 6000 trainees to Uganda, the effort is not to help Somalia but destroy Somalia by training forces that will only come back to destroy their own nation. They want to destroy good Muslims in Somalia who want to create a strong Somalia. A Somalia that is out of the daily control of UNDP and WFP is a strong Somalia. As in any other African country, Somalia is a victim of designed dependency by forces of evil. UNDP, WFP and others whose only soul and life is the misery of our people in Africa.
My advice to the Somali intellectual community, the Somali Diaspora: Please do not fall to the new UNDP gimmick trap!. The so called “QUESTS” project in which the UNDP plays a drama in which it suggest is luring the Somali professionals to help rebuild Somalia with some pay just as they are fooling the Somali parliamentarians by way of hiring them so that they keep shut their mouth. The same game play is here in practice. The new Quests project is and will be the UNDP’s last nail for Somalia’s coffin ! They want to buy a few more loyal brains to help them subdue Somalia and help UNDP rule Somalis from every corner. Please don’t fall into this trap. If UNDP is honest, make sure the mandate remains that you as Somali professionals controlee and are accountable to the pledges given to Somalia. If UNDP would surrender that role to the Somali Professionals, that would be a welcome step. Otherwise they just want to create a new fence forthemselves under the shadow of Somali professionals. I personally spoke to Ms. Wangamati. I asked her if these professional Somalis will have any control, say and prioritizing Somali development projects and would UNDP surrender being the permanent manager of Somalia’s pledges. She clearly understood my target and decided to tell me the truth, and said no. They will simply work with the parliamentarians. These are already bought out by UNDP and therefore the whole thing is a circus to strengthen UNDP’s role as the sole gatekeeper of Somalis international pledges. For the Quests project see www.quests-mida.org , it is just a new gimmick trap. Please challenge UNDP, WFP, and UNHCR fellow men in Nairobi and win your country back from these thugs. They have no interest in Somalia but are the main source of problem. Somalia needs to break of dependence on foreign aid, however hard. At some point, Somalis, you will regain your honor and prestige as a nation of heroes. There is no harm in international aid when there is accountability. However, this free reign of these thugs is nothing but a self serving
scandalous operation of few high level UN jokers whose lives are tailored around scavenging the carcasses of the weak, the hungry and the dying. The lords of hunger, misery and humiliation.
May Allah help Somalis to a better future of an honest government, of good Muslims and not these extremists and servants of evil Osama Bin Laden, of a future Somalia that is not hand cuffed by UNDP and WFP. I say this because I love Somalia and Somalis. May Allah stabilize it, a place I would like to see in peace sooner than later.
Finally and foremost, - Somaliland and Puntland leaders should be recognized for keeping the peace. They should be the supported, not the Mogadishu thugs. Uganda and Burundi forces have no reason in protection a bunch of Qat addict purported parliamentarians whose only service and loyalty is to the UNDP, WFP and Somalia’s scavengers. They should go home and stop dying in Mogadishu, or worse killing innocent Somalis in Mogadishu for the purpose of enforcing foreign interest, mainly the industry of death and corruption in Somalia.
Sincerely,
Girma Gizaw nov 2009
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