The Embassy of the Somali republic in Kenya has nothing to do with corrupted Visas, thus, the existence of the Embassy and the integrity of its Ambassador must be respected at all. Its completely deplorable such a baseless and falsified allegations against the Embassy to disgrace its Ambassador Hon. Mohamed Ali Ameriko who is the only Somali representing diplomat with tangible services for his country and fellow citizens.
“I have seen the report and astonished with the content, the authors of this report have no knowledge of what they did, they cannot classify the responsibility of the embassy and the access of the ambassador for outside activities, our responsibility is only to serve for the country and people we represent with respect for others”, Ambassador Mohamed Ali said.
“If we get a Visa application letter from members of our government, our duty is simply to attach an official letter from our embassy to it and pass to the concerned embassy so that we don’t have the power or decisions to either offer or reject the Visa, it’s the requested embassy that will have such decisions”, he said.
“There is no any substantial evidence in the falsified report that Somali embassy in Kenya offers entry Visas for Europe or other continents, this information is totally baseless and organized lies by some elements working with the foreign individuals who wrote the report to disgrace the Embassy”, he added.
For the last four years the embassy worked, it showed relentless diplomatic efforts connecting Somalia to the international community, the embassy also returned Somalia back to the international relations forum.
The biased report with its unfounded and appalling contents have nothing to do with Ambassador Mohamed Ali (Americo)and the reality he stands for, but only revealed the fact that some elements are still working hard to disgrace the foreign diplomatic missions of Somalia and its representatives operating in Kenya.
The Somali transitional government made its stance clear on the baseless allegations by the so called UN monitoring team whose unfolded investigations on corrupt Somali officials cast shadow over the respect the government had for the UN team prior to its allegations.
“Publishing and disseminating such a false report is a patent violation against the international conventions of the United Nations and its security council”, Somali government said in a statement made recently.
The shocking report seems to be prepared by individuals with no cooperation with the transitional government, but instead associating with the terrorists and opposition of the government whose intention is to derail the existing Somalia administration in order to pave the way for a new reconciliation conference to establish another government. Their sources of information could be given as a prove for aiming to keep Somalia in the long-lasting anarchy, they only listened to violent unpatriotic elements in Kenya and other countries outside Somalia, to give packing for what they wrote as monitoring team report. One also asks about the impartiality of the report when it does not mention any foreign individual who illegally benefited from the financial aid contributed to Somalia by the international community while we know there are many.
We are aware that the financial aid never gets directly to the intended Somali government and its people; most of the finance goes directly to the accounts of foreign individuals working with the UN offices like UNDP, and WFP.
Somalia ambassador to Kenya Mohamed Ali is also remembered with his efforts towards humanitarian sects apart from his diplomatic duties, Mr. Ali personally extended humanitarian assistant to Somali refugees fleeing from Mogadishu clashes, he established study center in El-Arfid, a tiny village outside Mogadishu where thousands of displaced families escaping Mogadishu clashes reached for the past two years and also extends permanent visitations at the overcrowded Somali Refugee camps in northeastern Kenya to monitor their livelihood situations.
An opinion poll conducted just two days after the report showed the Ambassador had been victimized with baseless allegations with most people interviewed defending Mr. Ali as the only decent diplomat out here for serving his nation and fellow citizens without corruptions in his work. Hence, the United Nations must investigate the report and take suitable stapes against its authors as soon as it makes the conclusions.
“There are many foreign actors who benefit from the lawlessness of Somali country and the head of the UN monitoring team that prepared the report is not less than one of them, he always tends to divide Somali society by having links with individuals inflaming Somalia wars” Mohamed Husein Ali, a Somali intellectual in Nairobi said.
“There is no need to listen from such a man with history of exploiting human sufferings”, he added
“The European countries can offer Visas or reject and that is their responsibility but why Somali Embassy has anything to do with that? They are completely wrong”,
The report is not only destructive defaming Somalia but also damages other European embassies in Nairobi which it mentioned manipulated for their diplomatic missions by the Somali embassy.
Finally, I call upon the United Nations to apologize for the Somali people by offending their diplomatic integrities outside the country while in the other hand it has to compensate on the ambassador for its disgraceful and shameless report that personally damaged his fame.
Nuradin M.M
