OPEN LETTER TO H.E. PRESIDENT LIBAN SAMOTALIS

His Excellency, Liban Hussein Samotalis

President of the United Somaliland Front In Diaspora and

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in exile,

President  Samotalis Sir,

Somalilanders in Diaspora Organisation (SDO) and Russia wish to congratulate you on assumption of office of the President,United Somaliland Front  , following an outstanding victory in a peaceful democratic general election in exile . We believe that only a man with a vision for his country could make such a long journey, notwithstanding rigors of preceding unsuccessful attempts. We hope you will not allow actions of misguided and self-serving bureaucrats to blur this noble vision you have for our beautiful country, Somaliland.

Mr. President, your victory in this election is a proof that Somalilanders have become well informed and therefore, guided by zeitgeist in making their choice. Our national problems are many, and expectations from the President are high. Your profile, manifesto, and campaign rhetoric’s give us confidence that you are fully grounded on the magnitude of the tasks ahead of us all, and that you have developed solutions algorithms for them. However, permit us to share our views on some of the issues.

First, CORRUPTION. Your statement at  late radio programs  : “Either Somaliland kills corruption or corruption kills Somaliland ”, gives us reasons to believe that you understands the urgency with which this killer disease needs to be tackled. It would be naive to expect that your government would stamp out corruption from our system of governance in four years, but we do anticipate that within this time frame, you can give Somaliland a platform to earnestly fight this social cancer. Time for ‘window dressing’, as we have seen in the past nine years, is over. Somaliland needs a clear strategy to take this ‘bull by the horns’. In our opinion, such strategy should include:

A) Somaliland had two major  hard currency cash flow the first was exporting life stocks the second was Berbera port both are gone from Somaliland ledger . Mr. President Liban Samotalis Sir  as you know Somaliland shilling doesn’t has gold reserves its gold reserves were life stock export and Berbera port therefore devaluation of Somaliland shilling is an imminent .. …

Mr. President All parameters indicate that the coffers of the Bank of Somaliland are empty. The country is facing a grave economic crisis twinned with a financial crunch. An embargo on Somaliland cattle imposed by Saudi Arabia has vastly reduced inputs of hard currency but the situation has been worsened by the re-routing of taxes that Hargeisa should pick up from operations in the port of Berbera, which is mainly managed by the private UAE operator DP World . According to our sources, DP World indeed opened an account at Dahabshiil, an international funds transfer agency, in Hargeisa. But Dahabshiil is said to have transferred the money to DPWorld’s accounts in the UAE. As a result, DP World doesn’t declare losses in Berbera but doesn’t pay taxes on its operations in Somaliland, either. To make matters worse, Somaliland’s shilling has plunged against the dollar at a moment when the country depends more than ever on imports without hard currency cash flow source and fake solutions of Kulmiye party which are more taxation and much  more taxation  or  printing more Somaliland shilling  to create fake exchange rate make the situation worse that is  known as Zimbabwe death spiral ……….

Mr. President made contact and visit as soon as possible Saudi Arabia which is major market of Somaliland life stock and try to persuade them via business community to send their  veterinary doctors  to Berbera in order to control animals well being in first hand also do everything in your power to restart life stock export in full scale …………  We the People don’t have any solution for DP World send them home they are up to no good only they are sucking up hardly needed hard currency from the country say to them Adios Amigos….

B ) Mr. President Stop increasing taxes   freeze them specially for working poor stop taxing them ,  it is the one of the three  major sources of inflation  : 1) If you tax working poor that woman selling tomatoes she will recalculate on poor consumers then the street will feel   the heat because CPI consumer price index will increase  2 ) Mr. President kill the monopolies and Cartels  major source of corruption let everybody who can participate importing basic goods like Sugar , Rice , Oil   ,  Medicine , Basic clothing …… etc do so just check the quality maybe you can keep monopolies  on luxury goods it’s against the free market but let be it  ….We The People prefer monopolies in tobacco then monopolies in Rice or Sugar for example  3 ) Stop cowboy pilot projects which are not based solid economic model using business model  without Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats  analysis a good example is  Burao new slaughterhouse someone build uninvited bright new slaughterhouse demolished the old one but now it is catch 22 how you will share the gain with that poor woman who slaughters one goat which gains just enough for her and her family to live for the day such projects were seen in Hargeisa , Borama and it is major source of inflation also mostly the owners of such projects want Dollar they will take dollar out of system they are  just another  DP world …….. If your project contributes to inflation please Somalilanders stop it and maybe build a hotel that is what you are good at …..

Yours truly,

Somalilanders in Diaspora Organisation (SDO)  .

Long live international Solidarity

Secretariat of the Central Committee 

Somaliland Communist Party