An Unrecognised Nation That Has the Worse Prospect To Secure Statehood
Today, most government Ministers don’t even know the core responsibility of their jobs. In return, this has huge implication of the ability of the government to deliver the obligatory services to its citizens. These could well be ensuring that the streets stays clean, storing clean water, giving health services or providing accurate information that is relating to the current coronavirus epidemic outbreak which the world is struggling to fight.
Sadly, this acute
problem become obvious when the incumbent President Mr Bihi has appointed 4
Ministers to sure the current coronavirus outbreak doesn’t reach Somaliland’s
shores. Nonetheless, none of the people, the president has appointed to deal
with the outbreak doesn’t have any medical background in order to comprehend
the magnitudes of the task they were given. So, without any plan of how they
were going to deal with the people arriving the country. The four ministers
have turned up at the airport. They met passengers at the door of the aircraft
along with few other airport workers.
The passengers were
advised by the Ministers that because of the coronavirus epidemic they will be
in quarantine for fourteen days. However, some of the passengers had critical
medical conditions that need for immediate attention including diabetes, high
blood pressure. Moreover, some passengers were elderly and young children. The
passengers were taken by buses without first ensuring the safety of the bus
drivers, the airport workers and the passengers themselves.
It became apparent
that no plan was made by the government officials where they were going to take
the passengers to stay for the period they are in quarantine. After few minutes
of confusion among the officials, the passengers were taken to a hotel in Hargiesa.
Upon arriving at the hotel, the four Ministers went inside the hotel to speak
to the owner to allow the people to stay in his hotel. The owner
instantaneously rejected the Ministers proposal to accommodate the passengers
to his hotel. The owner went and explained that he doesn’t want his hotel and
his workforce to be exposed for potential coronavirus. The passengers were
stranded for almost eight hours not knowing where they were going to stay. End,
the passengers were let free and they entered Hargeisa without knowing whether
any of them had the coronavirus that is killing so many people around the
world.
Most recently, more
hundreds of students have arrived back from Ethiopia. The students have been
brought by buses to Hargeisa. No officials from the government knew the
students were coming back to the country and no provision has been made in
order to meet these students on arrival. No quarantine was offer for these
students despite arriving from Ethiopian which is the country’s that is
experiencing the current coronavirus outbreak.
The buses have
dropped the students with their suitcases in the middle of Hargeisa. However,
some students were heading to different regions within the country including
Sanaag, Sool and Togdheer but the students did not have the means to travel
back own their regions.
Sadly, the country is
crying out for a good leadership that have the skills and know-how to run the
country and if those capable people don’t come forward sooner rather than
later, then the future of this young nation looks uncertain.
BY: Abdi Adan
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