Siilaanyo's poor leadership by Jama Falaag

Siilaanyo's poor leadership by Jama Falaag

Here is a pattern. When there is righteousness in the heart, therr is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is an order in the nation. Where there is order in the nation, there is peas in the country Remember this. 

When Siilaanyo was the presidential candidate, a thousand voices predicted at certain key moments that he would never be good president. Some people said that Siilaanyo is not a man of his word. Some said that he is not a man of vision. Others said that he does not have the effect to lead a nation.

Such views are substantiated by the thoughts that can elicit questions like: Does Siilaanyo have a better light over his predecessor? Has he invoked a national vision, ideas that contribute to the unified sense of mission and thereby to the harmony of the whole? Is there an agenda behind the creation of characters like: Hersi, the chief of the cabinets, who only brought daggers, knives and swords to the presidential palace, as if it is a cannibalization room?

All cases considered, Siilaanyo is  running an administration that, since the day he was inaugurated till today, has seemed directionless, uninspired and addicted to the empty calories of generalities. He himself seems flat. No fire. No prudence. No passion for profound leadership. 
 
Weakness is the first thing that bubbled from Siilaanyo's Administration. There is no spirit of close contact and cooperation between his government apparatuses. The whole administration, from head to tail, looks like a tired one, which has wandered and struggled and got lost, and which could not strike into its road and see its end. There is an in-fight even going on between them. 
  
This mess has an impact on the country. Many of the cherished values that we spent decades promoting are dying fast. There are signs of dissent and dissidence at the corners of the country. A culture of disloyalty and hatred, hard to reverse or restrain, is growing fast. Respect for Somaliland secession and reverence for national interests seem to be disappearing.  

Siilaanyo chose the moment. He kicked out the confidence that is essential to any government, because he has no clues about how to craft a different and alternative future. The reason is that Siilaanyo's own appeal is built not on hard issues like economic promise or political stability but on emotive matters that seem to appease his own sentiment.

Leadership is like water and water is like leadership. When it becomes static, it turns stagnant and infested. Its normal course is movement; there is always an ebb or a flow. You either use the tide or get washed away by it. Whoever controls the moment rides the forward surge. Siilaanyo has never been a good captain of a boat set on a course precisely on the middle path. 

There was and still is a philosophy of his own, that Siilaanyo can not and could not be able to overcome. Siilaanyo's main view of politics is that politics has no permanent morality. For him; politics can be idealism, or it could be compromise, or even a concept to undermine one another.

For this, Siilaanyo is tempting the extremes of responsibility. And responsibility is a commitment, an element of accountability, a fact and a function. There is mystery in the way responsibility is carried out, majesty in its breadth and power in its depth. The wise are careful about how they deal with responsibility, for in respecting responsibility there is a long history of bravado and praise. 

Illusions and ill-judgment in administration building are not a function of the courts of law or the criminal investigation department. It is decided in the marketplace of politics. The poor judgment of Siilaanyo peaked this time, but the public will not close the book. Would they?


By: Jama Falaag
      Jeddah, Saudi arabia
jamafalaag@gmail.com

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