Somali Legislatures Are Failing in Their Representation Role █

“Somali Lawmakers, morally can’t legislate, because of allegations made over corruption and bribery”

It is unfortunate that a member of parliament, who is expected to be a role model for lawmakers,

The political instability and the rise of the warring PM and President are clear reflections of the situation on the ground. The Somalis are living intolerable lives and they are looking for radical solutions to their problems. Poverty, unemployment, a dysfunctional school system, high food prices and homelessness are weighing like an albatross around the necks of millions of young people. And it is getting worse!
What is currently happening in parliament is only an extension of what has been happening outside of it.

The most of Somalis are disgusted by the corrupt legislative members. While the majorities are desperately trying to make ends meet these gentlemen have amassed obscene wealth through outright bribed theft of public funds.

When Abdi Barre of No Vote for Cash( NVC) asked the simple question to his friends from the President’s side, “When are you going to pay back the bribery money”, he was merely asking a question which emanated from large sections of Somalis. “We need laws that provide harsher punishment and jail time for corruption, before we legislate anything today” He concluded.

When the No Vote for cash group, singing, chanting, demanding answers – and not getting any – and the Speaker was called in response, it only was only an extension of what is happening on an almost daily basis in the wider society.

This is why so many people are interested in the affairs of parliament. They feel for the first time in years that someone is expressing their aspirations there…

More than anything, the current events in the parliament (President Vs PM) have thrown the spotlight on the bourgeois parliamentary system. The masses are looking to their so-called “representatives” for answers and solutions to their plight. They observe and follow the debates, desperately looking for a way out. Experience will teach them that the big decisions that impact.

But such a scenario of corrupted legislatures promoting a non-confidence vote for PM would make a disastrous situation even worse. It would, to a large extent, distort the normal functioning of the Law making system.

These events in parliament clearly reveal the yearning desire among the Somalis for revolutionary and radical change. It reveals the very favorable conditions in which the ideas and methods of revolutionary can make an enormous impact.