Reliable sources within Somalia President Ahmed Farmajo’s government have revealed a new plan hatched recently in order to use the greedy business people in Somaliland to pressure that entity to accept reunification with Somalia.
Recently local agents for some of the international airlines, whose licenses to operate in Somaliland were revoked for yielding to Somalia government directives of not to operate in Somaliland during the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak have started to mobilize local elders to ask the president to reconsider that revocation.
Recently, a section of youth from certain clans in Somaliland have been holding press statements demanding for the reissuance of those licenses to avoid a conflict between their clans and the government, which they termed as a government of a particular clan, allegedy the President’s.
Suggestions are fire that political commentators and experts alike, have pointed out that this new trend seems to be something foreign forces are pushing for their own interests.
The said two airlines, whose local agents want their licenses reissued, are Al-Arabia and Fly Dubai, both of which are Emirati companies, a country with cordial relations with Somaliland. Thus, allegedly, their agenda is to create discord between the two countries.
Somalia is close with the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Qatar state, which is doing all it can to disrupt UAE’s ties with African countries and Somaliland in particular.
The Farmajo government, therefore, sees this as an opportunity not only to bring Somaliland against UAE but also to create chaos in Somaliland and ignite clan wars in order to destabilize Somaliland.
This is the only opportunity that Somalia spies and its Islamist business people find it right since Somaliland is about to go to elections and political tensions are high. Hence, opportune time to bring the public against the government.
It is also worth mentioning that Farmajo government has severally tried to bankroll some of them to take subversive measures but failed. However, observers note that bringing clans at loggerheads in the name of business rivalry is the easiest way to create such mayhem in Somaliland, since the public might not deem it as a foreign hands at play.
