Somaliland: Kulmiye Party Wants To Tell That It Is Not Over Yet! By:Garyaqan Mohamed Ahmed Abdi Ba’alul
Somaliland: Kulmiye Party Wants To Tell That It Is Not Over Yet! By: Garyaqan Mohamed Ahmed Abdi Ba’alul Previously published on Feberuary 11th, 2014. It is not a long time since their deeds turned out to be different from their words. It was not even a political drama, where whips of the ruling and opposition parties were showcasing their controversial positions over the newly-introduced changes to road taxation. But, it was manipulative pretension designed to squeeze the government into a narrow corner, forcing it to extend its hand under the table. As Somalis say, you cannot do massaging with dry palms, so the government was too smart to read the signs without words. Sorting things out with the defying members, it succeeded in getting this tax-increasing bill to go through parliament . To see the shifting positions of the MPs, or hardline critics thumping up later to the government, is not a surprise to public, though it could be a political suicide to Wadani Party when...