somalia post election

[metamorphosis]

Call me a pessimist but i am quite doubtful that things will change for the better after this election. How can you hold a presidential election for a country thats partly held by extremist alshabab and a good chunk of it under the false impression that they are a country of their own seperate for the one that election is being done for? The candidates are giving their speeches on what they have done for the country rather than state what they will do for the country. Some of MPs will include ex warlords. Why arent these issues discussed? This whole election is quite funny. i expect high rates of criminal activities. I expect corruption to remain the way it is now. I expect schools to be ill funded as they are now. I expect roads and the infrastructure to not improve drastically.

[Shaarib24]

Call me a pessimist but i am quite doubtful that things will change for the better after this election. How can you hold a presidential election for a country thats partly held by extremist alshabab and a good chunk of it under the false impression that they are a country of their own seperate for the one that election is being done for? The candidates are giving their speeches on what they have done for the country rather than state what they will do for the country. Some of MPs will include ex warlords. Why arent these issues discussed? This whole election is quite funny. i expect high rates of criminal activities. I expect corruption to remain the way it is now. I expect schools to be ill funded as they are now. I expect roads and the infrastructure to not improve drastically.

There is something to the widely known saying that a pessimist never does contribute anything of worth to the planet and the people in it. It takes no skill to predict doom and gloom. If most of the Somali people have shown anything in the last 20 odd years it is optimisme. A year and a half ago Mogadishu was a battle front. Two years ago the bullets killed people in Villa Somalia. Three years ago the government could barely move between the airport and Villa Somalia. Ten years ago the city was divided in sectors where people could hardly cross without risk. You know where I'm going with this.

The most important thing now is to discuss how to better things. Not how and why and when the sky will fall.

[Paddington Bear]

Call me a pessimist but i am quite doubtful that things will change for the better after this election. How can you hold a presidential election for a country thats partly held by extremist alshabab and a good chunk of it under the false impression that they are a country of their own seperate for the one that election is being done for? The candidates are giving their speeches on what they have done for the country rather than state what they will do for the country. Some of MPs will include ex warlords. Why arent these issues discussed? This whole election is quite funny. i expect high rates of criminal activities. I expect corruption to remain the way it is now. I expect schools to be ill funded as they are now. I expect roads and the infrastructure to not improve drastically.

There is something to the widely known saying that a pessimist never does contribute anything of worth to the planet and the people in it. It takes no skill to predict doom and gloom. If most of the Somali people have shown anything in the last 20 odd years it is optimisme. A year and a half ago Mogadishu was a battle front. Two years ago the bullets killed people in Villa Somalia. Three years ago the government could barely move between the airport and Villa Somalia. Ten years ago the city was divided in sectors where people could hardly cross without risk. You know where I'm going with this.

The most important thing now is to discuss how to better things. Not how and why and when the sky will fall.

He's right though. At every turn and every election, Somalis have been going through extreme bouts of euphoria followed by depressing episodes of indifference. Nobody seems to be asking “What is going to happen next?”, “Where do we go from here?” and “Will the usual leopards change their skins?”