MP Dr Abdillahi Hashi Abib, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the House of People of Somalia, recently published a strong condemnation of the actions of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. The article, which calls for the president’s impeachment, outlines several grievances:
It is both shocking and deeply disgraceful that the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, once a vocal critic of external aggression against our land and sea, has now betrayed the very sovereignty he swore to protect. Standing in the sacred halls of the Martyr’s Mosque in Mogadishu on January 12, 2024, he boldly declared Ethiopia as our enemy, pledging that Somalia would never bow to foreign aggression.
He passionately proclaimed, βIf land is to be claimed, it is we who should claim a land in Ethiopia, not them claiming our land.β
Yet what followed was a series of treacherous actions that stripped his words of any sincerity. This president, bypassing his Cabinet Ministers and Parliament, entered into agreements with foreign powers without transparency or accountability.
Under the guise of safeguarding Somaliaβs sovereignty, he signed questionable security agreements with Egypt and Eritrea and pandered to the Turkish President with promises that remain cloaked in secrecy.
And now, in a move that cannot be described as anything less than betrayal, he has visited Addis Ababa, standing side by side with the Abyssinian regime. He saluted their so-called navy – a force funded by the French President who was kicked out of every country in West Africa intent on carving up our coastline and encroaching on Awdal Stateβs strategic cities, Zeila and Lughaya.
This is the very regime he once labeled an enemy, and yet today, he lends them legitimacy and emboldens their ambitions.
This president has violated every legal and constitutional safeguard of the Federal Republic of Somalia.
His actions are not merely failures of leadership; they are crimes of treason against the Somali people. It is now imperative for the two chambers of our federal parliament to act decisively and impeach him for betraying the trust of our nation.
We must unite, as we did when defending our coastline against Kenyaβs annexation attempts. Let us rise together to defend Somaliaβs land, sea, and sovereignty. This betrayal cannot and will not be allowed to stand.
Abdullahi Hashi Abib, a Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Member of the House of People of Somalia