Puntland’s Dirty Money to Sabotage Somaliland Presidential Election

Minister of Interior Affairs of illegitimate administration in Garoowe “Puntland” Colonel Abdullahi Ahmed Jama (Ilka Jiir) is major player of piracy business in the region and leads organized gang of pirates that kidnaps and kills the foreign aid workers across Somalia. They hijack commercial ships, which are passing the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.

Ilka Jiir vowed to destabilize the neighboring Republic of Somaliland particularly during upcoming Presidential Elections. Somaliland is the only democratic and functioning administration in former Somalia, and disputed “Puntland” over it´s eastern regions including Sool, Sanaag and Buuhoodle. “Puntland” administration claimed the area on tribal bases, saying that inhabitants of these regions are kinsmen of “Puntland” tribes. These three regions are within Somaliland´s three centuries old border.

Ilka Jiir is planning to use piracy ransom money against Somaliland, and send terrorists to carry out bombing and killing in major Somaliland cities during the election. His style of attack is identical to that of Al-Qaeda terror organization, and intelligence reports say that Al-Qaeda trained his gang members in southern Somalia on assembling bombs and other explosives. The reports asserted direct relation between Al-Qaeda “Puntland” leadership, to act against Western interests in the region.

USA and EU sponsored the expenses of Somaliland Presidential Election, in an attempt to promote democracy in Somaliland, and to respect the desire of the people of Somaliland to adopt democracy during this difficult time. In Somaliland, the decision belongs to the public through the ballots of election.

Pirates operate across “Puntland” freely, which shows the support that pirates get from the administration led President Cabdiraxman Faroole and Ilka Jiir. These pirates hijack the ships across Somali water and receive millions of dollars as ransom, they are treated as ´HEROS´ in “Puntland” and pirates with large bundle of ransom money move across “Puntland” without the administration and police taking action against them. The pirates sail off the major “Puntland” ports and go for hunting the ships everyday morning like normal fishermen. One of the pirates, Liban Omer told me that pirating is very much common in “Puntland” and even police are pirates.

Somaliland Coastal Guard arrested more than 60 pirates from “Puntland”, who infiltrated into Somaliland water. The Regional Court of Somaliland sent them to lifer. Somaliland stepped up its patrolling across its water, in coordination with International Anti-Piracy Forces stationed at Red Sea.

Fu´aad Warsame Seed (Fu´aad Xanaano), a friend of Ilka Jiir, is another leading figure in piracy and kidnapping the foreigners. He kidnapped the German couple at Laasqoray City, and held them two months against their will. He, also, supervised hijacking Saudi Oil Tanker and Ukraine Ship off Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. Fu´aad Xanaano received $1.8 million in the piracy business.

Fu´aad Xanaano purchased anti-aircraft missiles from lawless southern Somalia – Mogadishu, and formed his own army at Laasqoray City, his birthplace. He paid $150,000 to finance the campaign of Ilka Jiir presidential campaing, after loosing the election to his colleague Cabdiraxman Faroole, he accepted the position of Minister of Interior Affairs of “Puntland”. This is perfect combination of ´Pirates Government´, where all members of the cabinet are Pirate Businessmen.

It is very much clear that Colonel Ilka Jiir and Fu´aad Xanaano are planning to destabilize the upcoming Somaliland Presidential Elections by sending suicide bombers into Somaliland cities.

President of “Puntland” Cabdiraxman Faroole installed money making machine at his office in Garoowe City. He makes large quantity of fake Somali Shilling currency to support his piracy campaign. Faroole takes the money to exchange markets in the local cities, and exchanges the fake money with US Dollars. This robbery of public money is illegal earning, because the local people are unable to distinguish between the fake and correct currency. This is also part of the campaign to destabilize Somaliland Presidential Election.
 

By:Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi