Farmaajo sells Somali people to terrorists in order to preserve presidency

Ahmed Adel

Outgoing Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo did not commit to his duties towards his people and did not preserve his land, but rather offered it as a sacrifice to the terrorist Al-Shabaab movement in order to ensure continued support for his rule and the survival of his regime and to impose his control on the country.

Farmaajo exploited Somali citizens by throwing them into the flames of civil war, as most Somali citizens have fallen victim to the recent battle between the regime and opposition forces following the decision to postpone elections.

Postponed elections

Legislative elections were scheduled to take place at the end of 2020, but were postponed due to political differences, while the presidential elections were supposed to take place on February 8, 2021, but Farmaajo announced that they would be postponed under the pretext of the collapse of talks between prominent politicians, provided that he continues to rule until he is replaced by an elected president.

Meanwhile, opposition leaders issued a statement confirming that they do not recognize Farmaajo as the president.

Battle of Mogadishu

Recently, the capital, Mogadishu, witnessed a gun battle between fighters loyal to the government and others affiliated with the opposition, amid fears that the clashes would be exploited for the benefit of Al-Shabaab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, while Turkish forces also appeared.

From the first moment of his rule, Farmaajo knew that the Somali youth are the fuel of the state and that they can remove him from power through demonstrations, so he made them the fuel for war abroad and handed them over to be recruited to external parties, as he imposed his domination over the tribal forces by controlling the states with political money.

Through his collusion with Al-Shabaab, Farmaajo has supported the recruitment of the youth by the terrorist group, which was revealed by African countries after Al-Shabaab launched a campaign to forcibly recruit new militants in the southern region of the country and buy weapons at the end of 2020.

Acting for Turkey and Qatar

Farmaajo supported the terrorist movement to control young people and citizens in most of the southern governorates, imposing pressure on village elders to ensure that young people joined the movement, which caused hundreds of young people to flee the country. At the same time, he offered up his people to support his allies, as the Somali Guardian website revealed in a report published in late 2020 that Turkey and Qatar had recruited hundreds of Somali youths to join the mercenary army sent by Turkey to support the Brotherhood’s Government of National Accord (GNA) fight against the Libyan National Army (LNA). More than 2,000 Somalis are now part of new forces fighting on behalf of Turkey and Qatar and those fighting on the front lines of Libya.

The website added that some young men recruited to serve the Qatari army were deployed in confrontation areas in Libya after being trained by Turkish army generals in Mogadishu.

The Somali president also showed no concern over the death of many young men who were deceived by the army in the Eritrean training camp after they were poisoned.

Several local reports have previously revealed that the Farmaajo regime is complicit in recruiting thousands of poor Somali youth to work for the Qatari army, which involves fraud and trafficking.

Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) Director Fahad Yasin, one of the most important weapons of the Somali regime, is considered to be the link between Qatar and armed terrorist groups in Somalia, chiefly Al-Shabaab.

Qatar uses Yasin in the circle of decision makers in Somalia to increase its influence within this important country in the Horn of Africa and to strike at the interests of those whom Doha considers its enemies.