By M.A. Egge
The Somaliland Presidential spokesman, Mr. Hussein Deyr, has retorted to flawed remarks made by the President of Somalia as regards the essence of Somaliland to have been part and parcel of Somalia.
Despite misinforming the world at the sidelines of the UNGA meeting, the Somalia president insinuated that Somaliland was a ‘project’, a term that is as ludicrous as it is offensive to the nation of the Republic of Somaliland.
The statement that Hussein Deyr published on his Twitter account, read as follows:
“A Failed State Cannot Lecture a Sovereign State. President Hassan Sheikh’s belated admission of Somaliland’s stability and democracy only exposes what Mogadishu has long tried to deny: that a nation it neither governs nor contributes to has built functioning institutions while Somalia remains mired in chaos, corruption, and foreign tutelage.
“His attempt to compare Somaliland to Sudan and South Sudan is deeply flawed. Somaliland is not a “breaking away” — it is reclaiming the sovereignty it rightfully held in 1960. The so-called union was never legally ratified and collapsed under dictatorship, persecution, and genocide.
“Somalia should fix its own chronic instability before lecturing a nation that governs itself with peace, order, and legitimacy — a reality no rhetoric can erase.
“Long live the Republic of Somaliland”. END.
The Somalia leader unashamedly depicted political naivety by misinforming the world by lying and distorting facts in his endless zeal to fight Somaliland recognition at any opportunity he can clutch on, a fact that would all the more be detrimental hence undermine his own backyard.