Somalia steps closer to electing a new president - Advocate Evans Ogada joins discussion

The newly elected Somali parliament convened for the first time with new legislators sworn in. This brings the country a step closer to completing a prolonged electoral process marred by alleged corruption and irregularities.

For more on this we are now joined by Advocate Evans Ogada a Researcher and a Member of the Law Society Of Kenya Public Interest Litigation Committee

[abdullahiahmedmohamuud]

I am very sorry for the Somalis who helped the whole of Africa to reach this level

[karthi]

Shocking... This is a chronic failed state..

[mohamedyusuf]

Why ask nairobi why not the country that’s happening election I mean muqdisho

[ksgrmdsdl]

Whatever is happening in Somalia right now is not even an election per se. It is a joke. No democracy in Somalia and history shows that democracy will not exist in Somalia for a foreseeable future. The thing is that Somalia is an amalgamation of clans whose origins are traceable back to thousands of years ago. Each somali clan has been waging war on the other for centuries. The same clan system was responsible for the civil war that has turned the country into a failed state for the past three decades. My opinion is that African people that are not somalis and are not muslims need to migrate into somalia and take over the leadership of somalia because Somalis themselves can never rule themselves peacefully because of ingrained interclan hatred. Somalia will never enjoy stability, peace, and prosperity unless they diversify their population rather than remain a homogenous multi-clan society. I am suggesting this because when you see Somalis that have settled in Kenya they go about their business in peace and are even prosperous because Kenya is a society with 44 tribes that include bantus, nilotes, cushites, Indians etc. The diversity in Kenya dillutes somali clan system's influence over the Kenyan somalis, given that Somalis are the minority ruled over by Bantus and Nilotes that are the dominant majority in the Kenya.