The appointment of President Mohamud in 2012 was supposed to signal the beginning of the end of years of instability with elections due in September 2016....we are not on the right track for 2016 goals as much valuable time was lost in the attempts to obstruct the formation of states.
Reuniting a fragmented Somalia requires adherence to the constitutional framework that its people adopted, but the last two presidents have disregarded this aspiration. It has been evidenced that over 30 articles of Provisional Federal Constitution were illegally tampered with, including important provisions relating to the Upper House of Federal Parliament (which was supposed to be established and voted in the 2012 presidential election) and defining the status of the federal capital. It is worth noting former Constitution Minister and current MP Abdirahman Hosh Jibril and speaker Mohamed Osman Jawari were respectively responsible for signing, stamping, and distributing the tampered version of the constitution to the MPs on the 7th of September, 2012.
http://www.garoweonline.com/page/show/p ... ed-somalia
However, the State Department official said that elections "as we know them" were not going to happen.
"This is not going to be a one man, one vote election as we would have hoped it to be," said the official.
http://www.france24.com/en/20150505-joh ... alia-visit
There goes Hassan Sheikh and his small ideological sect down the drain.
