The Crook Warlords are Coming Back to Somalia’s Political Theater as Semi-State Presidents

Untouchable warlords are dooming Somalia to an endless cycle of violence and corruption, aided by UN-Western and protected by Ethiopian troops, as Abdi Hirsi reports from Baido.
Since the fall of President Mohamed Siad Barre in the late 1990s, civil conflict in the Democratic Republic of Somalia has claimed more than 300 thousand lives. The South Western part of the country remains in disarray despite the presence of the Ethiopia’s largest military contingent.

The last-minute arrangements that lead to Sharif’s victory are considered by many Somalis, even those who did not vote for his challenger, as Somalia’s warlords come-back.

Despite an obsessive focus by the AMISOM and their coalition colleagues on the Al-Shabab, there is as much or even more alarm among Somalis over the inordinate power of tribal Semi-State leaders and the tribal mini-states resort to violence by a brutal warlord class, which they say has been resurrected by the same Western powers who claimed to be bringing democracy to their ravished homeland.

It was a bad idea to welcome warlord Sharif Hasan Sh. Adan (a.k.a Sharif Zakin) his presidential inauguration to happy hour in South Western Somalia. Mid 2012 Parliamentarians turned down his offer of bribery, and ended up being a loser of the .speaker of the parliament, said Abdi Hirsi.
When Baidoa people joke that they can’t be bought, but rent is always an option, they have despots like Sharif Zakin in mind.
All eyes are on the Ethiopian-backed Semi-States tribal Presidents as a new-age warlords who are positioning a well-armed personal strike force to fend off what key community figures warn will be inevitable challenges to their one-man government.

”What is [Sharif Zakin], if there are no Ethiopians, no AMISOMS,” asks a Baidoa business leader as he criticized foreign support for Semi-States tribal Presidents (Warlords), who is accused of undermining and over-charging the government he is supposed to serve..

Capable Somali diaspora technocrats and experts who have returned from exile anxious to work find themselves ranged against thuggish warlords (semi-State tribal presidents) and, on another front, the Al-Shabab resistance leaders. The technocrats regard the mini-state Presidents/warlords as heathen crooks while the Al-Shabab leaders dismiss anyone who sat out the conflicts overseas as soft and without credibility. The Semi-State Presidents (warlords?) They only care if there’s an easy buck to extort from someone.

Some politicians and activists think a serious backward step is today impossible. They argue that the Constitution and other newly-created institutions such as the Federalisms system, the Electoral Committee, the independent broadcast media, etc. are a rampart to an impossible comeback of warlordissm

In Somalia, there is provisional constitution with its rules of law with its procedures governing the land of Somalia .Otherwise IGAD-Ethiopian army intervention will complicate this Semi-tribal warlord presidents installations caused by enemies of peaceful co-existence ,tranquility and progress , and can be condemned as criminals and warlord elements like Siilanyo to face justice of all sort of treasons and carnages by slaughtering innocent lives and destruction of precious properties that can support live were spoiled by hostile and notorious groups of prominent and well-known leaders for their militia.