As wide spread corruption, bad leadership, mismanagement of resources, and nepotism amongst other societal ills have undermined and impeded any development, further causing a detrimental effects that have plunged the country and the people deeper into abject poverty, conflicts, political instability and severe economic challenges. Hassan Sheikh has already resorted to create a chaos and instability in the Southwest state by sending political agitators to the capital of South West State Baidoa to oppose the institution erected by the people of Southwest State with their sweat, ingenuity, time and pockets.
According to the United Nation’s Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group report dated February 06, 2014 President Hassan had decided to become a clan President rather than a nation’s president by engaging a narrow clan agendas, at times working against the development of peace and security in Somalia through the distribution of weapons to parallel security forces and clan militias that are not part of the Somali security forces whom prosecute minority groups living at Lower and Middle Shebele regions.
Progress across the country remains uneven, overall governance and development progress continues to lag. A growing dispute between the government and the traditional elders whom selected the parliament led to the Somali elders denouncing Hassan Sheikh as the president of the republic. Rather than spearheading a solution to de-escalate the outcry of the people and the elders, for a year the President and his government stayed silent, and then resorted to disrupting the conference in Baidoa which hosted elders representing the people of South West a disruption which led to the agitators sent by Hassan Sheikh firing 4 bullets to an unarmed13 year old boy wounding him seriously on the abdomen. Also former militias whom are enlisted as Somali National Army led by the infamous “Indhacade” slaughtered 8 elders from Lower Shebelle whom opposed “Indhacade” and his militias at KM50.
Progress across the country remains uneven, overall governance and development progress continues to lag. Peace building in Somalia needs a set of initiatives seeking to prevent the risk of relapsing into ethnic conflicts. The foundation of Somalia’s peace building must include building legal and human rights institutions as well as fair and effective governance and dispute resolution processes and systems.