The old model to channel aid funds to Somalia from the
U.S. and other countries is not only a failure; it is one of the main factors
contributing to the rampancy of corruption in Somalia. On July 21, I tweeted the following
reflection: “A society can govern itself with custom instead of modern law,
tribal system instead of government; (however) it cannot ride both horses at
the same time.” Reacting to that old tweet, a few days ago, I received a
one-liner e-mail that read “We must be doing well riding both horses!” and an
attachment of a beautiful picture from Brussels which captured the magnificent
event recently organized by EU called the New Deal.
I hope I am wrong. I hope that latest conference and the
pledged $2.4 billion would solve all of Somalia’s problems. I hope it would
help pull together our nation’s disconnected pieces and convince its many
exploiters that people can no longer be fooled to think that Balkanized
clan-driven fiefdoms constitute community self-governance. And as I have argued
before, uniformly, beneath the democratic and pluralistic veneer, each of these
self-governing political entities is a clan-based power concentration and
selectively enjoy all the privileges that come with it……To Read More….
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