SOMALILAND: Disadvantages of Having Numerous Political Parties
By: Ahmed A. Ahmed
Political parties are the backbone of democratic system that represents certain views and ensures future political platform of a country. Nowadays in Somaliland there is epidemic for too many parties either established or upper coming parties. I believe too many parties would cause unnecessary setbacks and can damage the image of our beloved country.
We should not compete over which party is in the flavor of the month or which party has the load mouth but we should consolidate our political parties into few with variety of diverse opinions in each party. Somaliland has a lot of challenges and need to focus for positive improvement and create economic opportunities, job creation, basic health care for all citizen, quality education, public infrastructure and accountability of the government sectors. These are the areas we should focus not names of these numerous political parties. People should focus the real need for the country and how the country benefit young people in more productive way like attracting foreign companies to invest or creating small factories that employ native young people and send homemade merchandise to neighbor countries. We should recognize that young people or working age of our countries as resource that need to be tap and used appropriately and turn our country into an exporting country.
I also believe only two to three political parties is in the best for our country, because too many parties would only create too many frictions and controversies. If you look developed countries only few parties exist where citizens with no political affiliation consider themselves as independent voter.
I ask my fellow Somaliland citizen to think positive and look deeper in this emerging issues and say enough, too many political with no vision rather than noisy groups who are just thinking about their ego would only immerse destructive propaganda in order to get recognition.
May God Help Us
Ahmed A. Ahmed
Somaliland Citizen