As the nation grapples with the fallout from the publication of the hydrocarbon agreement between Turkey and Somalia, an agreement that MP Abdullahi Hashi Abib has denounced as “exploitative, colonial in nature, and recklessly endangering Somali sovereignty, marking the most significant surrender since independence,” fresh revelations from Uganda indicate a nation teetering on the edge.
This news, which the president and Villa Somalia had kept under wraps, was unexpectedly disclosed by Jacob Oboth-Oboth, Uganda’s State Minister for Defence and a prominent figure in the ruling NRM party, during an extraordinary summit of the Troop Contributing Countries (TCC) to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) held in Kampala.
Jacob Oboth-Oboth said, Al Shabaab remains a grave threat to Somalia and in recent days “has seized critical forward operating bases in Middle-Lower Shebelle.” Why did Villa Somalia deny this news earlier, and did President Hassan Sheikh tell Uganda something he didn’t tell the Somali people?
Oboth-Oboth declared, “A troop surge of 8,000 is urgently needed to safeguard the hard-won gains” warning that without immediate action, al-Shabaab could not only undo these achievements but potentially create even graver challenges in Mogadishu and surroundings.
But that isn’t all. AUSSOM is broke, and you know they are broke when Uganda, a major financial beneficiary of the peacekeeping operations in Somalia proposes a first ever “peer review mechanism involving TCCs and Somalia for oversight, coordination and accountability led by H.E. Kaguta Museveni.”
Can Mogadishu and southern Somalia now weather the looming storm while Museveni led accountability team starts holding the TCCs and Villa Somalia accountable and examines what went wrong in Mogadishu? It can’t and it won’t, as Somalia is now being regarded as a failed state, and reverts back to a transitional federal government under the political tutelage, influence and direction of IGAD and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Under President Hassan Sheikh’s leadership, Somalia has effectively ceded its national sovereignty to Museveni and IGAD, while its economic sovereignty has been handed over to Erdogan and Turkey.
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