Somaliland police arrests Somalia MP
Berber, Somaliland (Somaliland Globe)- The Somaliland police arrested and locked up on Thursday a member of parliament (MP) for Somalia on his arrival at the Berbera airport in Somaliland.
Abdullah Haji Ali who is a politician of Somaliland descent and former mayor of Berbera, the capital city of Sahil province is still an incumbent member of parliament for Somalia.
Mr. Ali said on his arrival at Berbera airport that there was no future for Somalia’s hopelessly and inefficient besieged transitional federal government (TFG) and for that reason requested clemency for his return to Somaliland- his native country.
The Somaliland government however has withdrawn his request for clemency upon arrival at Berbera airport because of his failure to completely renounce his membership to the parliament of Somalia to which he still belongs coupled with his failure to make a declaration regarding his unswerving support for the sovereignty of Somaliland as an independent state.
Somaliland (formerly known as North West Region) was part of what used to be Republic of Somalia since 1960 before it broke away in 1991 and restored its sovereignty as an independent state following Somalia’s descent into a lethal civil war, which led to the disintegration of the country into fiefdoms ruled by clan warlords before the rise of Islamists.
Somaliland, a former British protectorate, got its independence from Britain on 26 June 1961 and entered an unratified union with Italian administered Somalia in July 1960. Somaliland had remained this unratified union with Somalia for more than 30 years.
On 18 May 2009, the self declared republic of Somaliland marked 18 years since it proclaimed independence from Somalia. Although its sovereignty is still unrecognised by any country, the fact that it is a viable, functioning constitutional democracy distinguishes it from Somalia.
Individuals of Somaliland descent who hold high-level positions in the TFG are routinely arrested and locked up by Somaliland police if and when they set foot on Somaliland soil.
Somaliland Globe
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July 21st, 2009 saat: 4:11 pm
Correction “got its independence from Britain on june 26 1960″.