My decision to make this article with the title(The Guilt, the Shame, the Aftermath) into different
parts has something to do with the vast mishaps and the never-ending corruption. Somalia's story requires the thickness of the good old yellow pages, so I want to write it in parts instead.
Moreover, my target audience is the younger generations, and I write to their satisfaction. This
new generation only reads short articles; the baby boomers read long and tedious articles about social or political issues. This younger generation requires a tik tok like an article that is precisely, specifically accurate, and short.
I want to shed some light on corruption and looting in this part. The current administration wants to fight corruption, which I find hilarious. How do you fight corruption if everyone is involved? I am asking the current administration how you separate the wolf from the sheep. I believe the wolf is already in the hen house and has consumed most things. The looting goes back decades, but I will only discuss it from 1991.
After the fall of the Siyad Barre regime, the top generals started to grasp what they could, and since then, the baby boomer has caused us nothing but chaos. The Somali baby boomer is two parts, but they are all guilty of messing up the country and not finding tangible solutions for our society over three decades.
The one that got away and fled the country with his life, maybe his children too, and never
looked back other than trash-mouthing what was happening back home in his comfort with a cup of tea in his hand somewhere in London or another similar location. The best thing this group of baby boomers did was send money back to their people, which elevated the livelihood to some extent but escalated the idea and notion of hating the country and doing whatever possible to migrate. Till today most Somalis would rather live out of the country, and it's not motivated by fear for their lives but rather a hatred of being uncomfortable and helping society.
The worst thing this group of baby boomers did was crowd the Somali. The political market was as if they were superior and more educated than others or even more deserving than those who stayed in the country. They leave their taxi driving and Amazon packaging job and come to the government to feel entitled. The worst part is the deception they cause the locals by creating lies and taking advantage of this poor soul's ignorance of the outside world.
Someone once told me the difference between the Somali politician that never left the country is that he can be satisfied if he built himself a house in Somalia while the diaspora politicians want to construct homes in Dubai and much more expensive cities. The looting level of Somali politicians has a story that this is the benchmark of their hunger to steal what belongs to the Somali people.
In Summary, where are you going to hide Mr looter? I remember a clip by Salad Ali Jele where
he said. "Waa Luutaris." The idea of running away or fleeing with what belongs to a whole
society is idiocracy. History teaches us everyone gets caught in the end, and that's a fact.
Dr Salman Hassan Badal
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