Quoting one of the critical decisions the Somalia Security Council meeting reached on Tuesday in Baydhabo, capital of the Southwest Federal State of Somalia, outspoken Somaliland opposition leader, Faisal Ali Waraabe, warned Galmudugu state of the repercussions of the weaponry and military support they signed for Puntland.
The Baydhabo consultative meeting brought together Somalia’ five federal states and the central seat of Benadir to ponder critical issues revolving around the country’s teetering security situation.
Points 1.5 and 1.6 of the Council resolution proposed that both Puntland and Galmudug be supported with arsenal to, ostensibly, fight Al Shabaab and Daaish on their own since there was no presence of AMISOM troops in the designated areas.
Addressing Galmudug President, Haff, Faisal said: ” be warned that the firepower you signed for Puntland will be turned against you in no time”. Faisal was obviously reminding the Galmudug leader of the traditional, recurring animosity between the two federal states which shared a divided Galkayu town as a capital for both administrations.
“Puntland is a true master in manipulating the world to serve its interests,” he said, adding “Garowe is built on piracy proceeds it masterminded. Now it is milking the world on terrorism hoax it engineers”.
Faisal went on to accuse of President Gass of Puntland Federal President Farmajo of colluding to build a clan-based hegemony in Somalia under the very noses of other unsuspecting state leaders who will, one day soon, he intimated, feel the full brunt of a brewing conspiracy against states and clans outside of the two leaders’ closed, common circle.
Faisal stated that the Republic of Somaliland and its people were ready to meet any renewed offensive from the Puntland side in the Sool areas or elsewhere.
“We very well know who took the Sool military engagement to the United Nation’s Security Council,” he said, obliquely pointing an accusing finger at Farmajo and his government.
The UCID opposition party leader is an ardent defender fo Somaliland sovereignty and territorial integrity which covers all regions within the colonial boundaries that demarcated independent Somaliland in 1960. Puntland, which came to be only in 1998, carved the larger parts of Sool, Sanaag and Togdheer regions for itself ignoring international boundaries but, instead, drawing new ones on the pretext that same ethnic clans lived on both sides of the old border – so they must be brought together.
Faisal never minced words to expose what he called the ill-concealed ‘shenanigans’ of Puntland leaders. The latter called for his assassination publicly and on TV.
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Somaliland administration, largely based on building peace among often uneasy neighbors in the region as well as an introduction of development schemes in areas that lag far behind other parts of Somaliland, recovered much of the Puntland-claimed areas in recent years. Since then, Puntland has been running military skirmished with the Somaliland army the last of which flashed on the 15th and 23rd of May 2018.
