The economy, military, civil services and governmental posts are, all controlled by members of IOG’s clan. A once foreign spy, IOG concentrated all the important military and governmental powers within his Mamassan clan and his wife's dominant Issak network.This trend will return Djibouti to its civil war of 1991 to 2000.
“This centralisation of power within one ethnic group and mainly within the President himself shows a typical similarity with the then day of Siad Barre’s Somali”.
Djibouti became the hub for money laundering, chronic corruption and ill-governance. Rumors say IOG to be one of the top three richest men in Africa. This money, scattered in different corners of the planet to avoid any probe or inquisitive eye, is of course the money stolen from Djiboutian people. Things are, unfortunately, going to worsen if president IOG clings to power beyond 2011 and the country could pay a heavy price for this lack of democratic change.
IOG, owns several businesses from shops, hotels, factories to service providers all located in various African countries. His hotel in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia is a good example.
Haïbado Ismail Omar, the youngest daughter of the Head of State, aged just 25 years, has been assigned by her father, President IOG to be the Djbouti’s official adviser for economic affairs under Presidential Decree in August 2010, just as she left the benches of the Colombia University.
The generality of all these state of affairs in Djibouti added with the same tension and time bombs in Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea could soon burst out to form a region that is unstable, uncontrollable, genocidal, maritime pirate infesting and apocalyptic.
It is up to the people of the Horn, from all different points of view, to come together to listen, learn, think, debate and discuss how we all might better work together to bring about an inclusive society where “humanity comes before ethnicity” or any other distinctions and where the solutions we seek are not for one chosen group to the disadvantage of others, but for all of us, for “no one will be free until all are free”
Posted by ANKOBER .
http://debrebirhan.blogspot.com/2011/01/watch-out-djibouti_14.html
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