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Somaliland mining, energy and water minister faces favoritism accusations
August 15, 2012 · 22 Comments
HARGEISA — Members of Somaliland’s parliament have accused the minister of mining, energy and water resources of unfairness in water projects in drought stricken regions.
14 MPs this week held a news conference in Hargeisa to voice against what they said was tribal favoritism and nepotism by minister Hussein Abdi Duaale.
They claimed the juiciest water projects granted by donors such as the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait went to districts and towns dominated by the minister’s tribe.
“The UAE funded the drilling of 6 wells in Togdher, the minister ordered all to be drilled in the east, where his kinsmen inhabit,” they said.
They stated the minister has been quietly charting the nation’s water system and sources development.
“The Kingdom of Kuwait sponsored the drilling of 16 wells, 9 of this went to the minister’s kinsmen while he decided to divide the remainder,” they said in a press statement.
They also accused him of misappropriating water systems granted by UNICEF to Somaliland communities. The lawmakers urged President Ahmed Silanyo to strike and sack the minister in order to restore public confidence.
Burao Water Agency pipeline design is displayed during the press conference by the Ministry of mining, energy and water
The minister today (Wednesday) reacted swiftly to the mounting criticism and rebutted point-by-point the accusations. In a speech titled ‘national interest is worthy over self interest’, the minister denied the allegations leveled against him.
He said certain public figures with self interest were spoiling the communities and misleading the country. The minister listed all granted water projects and their distribution in various regions.
Mr. Duale explained how a deal between his ministry and a private firm, Al Nafura, went sour after the company failed to abide by the terms and conditions of the agreement.
The deal involved the installing of water pipes to 250 homes as part of an experiment but the minister claims, Al Nafura doubled that number. He said the ministry ordered them to halt the activities. The situation later snowballed into violent conformations, in which the manager of Al Nafura tried to run over the manager of Burao’s water agency with a bulldozer and dismantle the pipelines.
He stressed that after the deal collapsed the firm enlisted “a small number” of MPs who are “same tribe as the manager of Al Nafura” to insult the ministry. He said it was a shame that people were putting self interest before national interest.
“From the press statement by the MPs, it is clear the minister has never instigated violence among the two communities. It is clear it has more to do with the manager of Al Nafura,” he said in the statement.
This is not the first time members of President Silanyo’s cabinet and administration has been accused of favoritism and nepotism. It was just months ago when the minister of aviation awarded construction project to a non-construction company affiliated with the President’s family.
The current government is dominated by the President’s clan and there is an increasing anger about this imbalance in power sharing.
Somalilandpress
August 15, 2012
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Tags: Burao, corruption, Hussein Abdi Duaale, nepotism, Somaliland, Togdher, tribalism, Water
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Members of Somaliland’s parliament Lol – Let me ask; what do they do? these so called Members of Parliament are waste of space and they all need to be sacked.
lol to his own tribe? This is a gangsters' house.
Tribal war is about to erupt in north Somalia thanks to warlord Silanyo. The UN office needs to place him and his associates under sanction if anything erupts. Job well done warlord Silanyo. I call on the north Somalis to upraise against him.
Duale is tribalist too because he accuses al naafura of using tribal MPs associated with the manager thus the whole Somaliland/Isaaq project is just one tribal cancer about to burst. This is what I discovered.
After Mogadishu recovered, the little Isaaq myth project has fallen apart and weak Silanyo only knows how to play the tribal card nothing else. He calls himself mining minister and hates other clans including this MP's tribe which also Mohamed Yusuf, the owner of the petroleum company belongs to so it appears that deal will now collapse…………
War on Silaanyo is gaining momentum…by the end of the year I can assure you that he will flee to UK with high blood pressure like Abdillahi Yusuf moahahaahahahah.
Ramadan Karim warlord Silanyo I hope your not eating too much tiimiir/dates.
are u crazy fool cant u differentiate between the government and the country. its one thing to be against this poor president but then to be against somaliland which is the product of its citizens shows that you are a tribalist who fails to understand the union with somalia will never happen again ok
Don't be fooled by Kayse he is one of the editors of this website. He wants free cash from the government and they refused him that's why he is commenting on his own writing.
Now Get it because I could swear that he is part of Somalilandpress.com
No doubts that he has direct or indirect links with SLpress!
Kayse = SomalilandPress Editor
we know you want more traffic + lots of comments but using fake names like 'KAYSE' is too obvious man.
No your wrong i have seen on my two eyes somalilandpress delete some of his comments.
Everything is clouded when your an angry separatist who hates who he/she is. I am an editor, I am a Hawiye, I am jobless, I live in UK, sometimes in Mogadishu, I am wanlaweyn etc…to them.
I just love their predictions. If Somalilandpress was under me I would change the name from the non-existent region to something more realistic like WaqoyiTribune.com
It would a professional version of Qarannews if not more critical. I will create one, iska suuga.
Everybody knows who you are now. There is no where to hide. This is not how you make a website (Somalilandpress.com) famous. What are you going to do now? Come up with a different name? lol
I am from Hargeisa and happy with any useful project earmarked for any region of Somali land. It is all my country. What is done in any part of Somali land is useful to me because all are my people. Take Berbera airport. It is now handling air traffic from many parts of the world when Hargeisa airport is not functioning to its full capacity. To me Awdal is not different from Togdheer. Please think regionally and nationally but not tribally. The land is ours and the people are ours.
100% concurred!
Water = Health & Environment
Mining Resources = Energy
But in Somali heads, when you ask them why they have such two different departments as one under the umbrella of "Ministry for water and resources". They sat "it is all about drilling the ground". This stupid idea was modern in the1950s, but not any more. Even the Arabs they copied from have moved on.
The main reason to combine water and energy together is to minimize the number of the ministries, but who cares which ministry the water goes under!
Dude, they do have a ministry for health and another one for environment. So get your facts right before you mouth off.
even in sanag and berebera this man gave da wells to his clan 70 percent and wen is da local elections happening y is it keep getting delayed???? we need wadani party or UCID to take over asap
Leav the minister alone. His commmunity are the mosty neeedy. I support him to help his community, which is the most underdeveloped in our country. It is fair
Everyone is accountable. If the minister is accused of nepotism, that is a tragedy. Mr.Duale is a wealthy, professional from the USA, I don't thinks he needs to besmirch his name and legacy with such foolish actions. Water is vital, and to deny those who are in the greatest need because they come from a different community is pitiful. If I have returned to land from a comfortable life overseas to help my people and I end doing, allegedly, such things, then I was never much of a person to begin with.
There is no doubt that this minister is tribal-oriented in the first place. He is a corrupt personality and money-maniac, as almost most of the diaspora that Siilaanyo appointed as ministes are. They are useless and good for nothing. They are refugees who only came to Somaliland to make money out of the country's meager resources.
Every soon the tribes in the north will fight every drop of water that is why Somaliland, a dry region that is heavily tribal like the Swat Valley, if not worse, should never be allowed to break away. They need water and fruits/vegetables from the south.
Also having more tribes in one state gives Somalia a sense of nationalism where as if every tribe creates his own state; the subclans, like we see here, will accuse each others and fight every day.
Silanyo's diaspora tribal warlords should go back to wherever they came from. Somalis in the north should abandon Silaanyo and Duale and the likes and should welcome the process in Mogadishu and demand more representations in the south instead of relying on this Diaspora individuals, who know nothing about government.
Local people must decide not Diaspora people driven by self interest.
The whole thing around Silaanyo is tribal more than Abdillahi Yussuf. The south Somalis must help us rescue the north by lobbying governments and international organizations…we achieved nothing for 21 years; its time Somalis came together and got rid of Diaspora-tribal warriors and their corruptions like Duale.
This makes good sense to anyone with functioning brain.