First of all I would like to say of the batch of contestants who ran for President the time it came to cast a vote, I am now totally and completely sure Hassan Sh. Mohamud was the one whom Somalia needed. Allah (swt) looked out for the nation by bringing this guy to th helm. I am also sure now that Saacid Farah Shirdoon was the right choice for pm. Recently when the President and PM co-hosted a dinner before the trip to Europe they both laughed and joked in the dinner "before the government used to be criticized for division, and today we are criticized for unity."
Saacid is older and a cut throat businessman who knows the Somali people and local politics. Hassan is an academic with credible international relationship partnership experience. Saacid is working internal as the PM is supposed to do; drafting lWs, by laws, forming a precedent for working relationship between cabinet and parliament, concentrating on legislative matters and ministerial cohesion and setting a standard for working with the different interests in parliament. For the first time Saacid took the cabinets budget to Parliament and got approved as should happen everytime. Hassan is working as face of the nation, the representation of the Republic, the elected member. He has not once intruded on a cabinet meeting and his relationship with the PM is through private channels. He has traveled to bring legitimacy back to Somalia and to tak the voice of the nation and bring a normalization. He has been villified in the Jubbaland issue---he only seeks the eestablishment of federal states through legal channels which has been adhered to by the parliament and cabinet.
Somalia as a whole is moving. Peace is returning, stability is slowly coming back, and economic investment is on the verge of being garnered. Let us move on from petty civil war talk---the chapter is ending with or without you.
