March
25, 2005
Ghedi:
As William Shakespeare put it so beautifully, “There
is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the
flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of
their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such
a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the
current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
Ghedi:
Tide and Time wait for no man, so what the hell are you
waiting for?
Ghedi:
Either go home to Mogadishu or lose your venture as the
Prime Minister of Somalia!
Ali
Khaliif Galayrd, the erstwhile Prime Minister of
Somalia, had the courage, had the cojonos, had the guts,
had the gumption, had the get-up and the go, had the
savoir-faire and the derring-do and had gone home to
Mogadishu even though he was a Dhulbahante Darod from
Las Anod! He was a daring Darod who believed nothing
venture, nothing having! He had shown that courage is
his true colour; he had demonstrated his mettle to the
whole world by the mere fact of going home to Mogadishu.
Ghedi:
What is keeping you from going home to Mogadishu?
Every
day that you put off going home to Mogadishu, every day
that you postpone going home to Mogadishu, you die as a
Prime Minister and your government loses its legitimacy!
And the Habar Gidir Honchos win once again!
Ghedi:
What the hell are you so afraid of?
Ghedi:
Courage! Where is your Mudulood courage? Where is your
Mudulood mother wit?
Ghedi:
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The
valiant never taste of death but once."
Ghedi:
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and
death!
Ghedi:
What the hell are you waiting for?
Abdullahi
Yusuf, the President of Somalia, made you his Prime
Minister because he believed that you as a member of the
Mudulood clan family who claims to be in full control of
Mogadishu will not have any problem in going home to
Mogadishu and in establishing the new Somali government
where it rightfully belongs—right in Mogadishu, right
in the heart of the Mudulood clan family.
Ghedi:
Safeguard your honour and the honour of our Mudulood
clan family: If you can’t or won’t go home to
Mogadishu, please just resign! Ina Yay will understand.
For that is the honorable thing to do.
Woody
Allen once famously said that 80% of success consists of
"just showing up."
Ghedi:
Why
can’t you and your government and the parliament just
show up in Mogadishu tomorrow?
Say
what you will about your predecessor, Galayrd; at the
very least he had the Darod Dhulbahante balls to show up
in Mogadishu and beard the Hawiye lion in his own
Mogadishu den and call the bluff of Ina Salad Boy and
his Habar Gidir Ayr hooligans and browbeat them into an
abject and an ignorant impotent and ignoble submission!
Ghedi:
Why don’t you just strike the iron while it is hot!
Just like Galayrd did!
Ghedi:
Ever since you have become the Prime Minister, you have
been behaving like the Flying Dutchman: like that
legendary Dutch Sailor condemned to sail all over the
seas of the world until Judgment Day!
Ghedi:
Brotherman, you have been behaving like a hobo without a
home!
Ghedi:
Honest to God, you remind me of this hit song by The
Temptations that I am now calling,
Ghedi
is a Rolling Stone:
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It
was the 24th of December.
That day I'll always remember, yes I will.
'Cause that was the day that our Mudulood Abgal
Ghedi became Prime Minister.
I never got a chance to see him.
Never heard nothing but bad things about him.
Mama, I'm depending on you to tell me the truth.
And Mama just hung her head and said,
"Son, Ghedi is a rolling stone.
Wherever he lays his hat is his home.
And since he became Prime Minister
All
he ever does is roll on his Abgal big black
behind in Nairobi."
Well, well
Hey Mama, is it true what they say,
that Ghedi is afraid of going home to
Mogadishu?
And Mama, some bad talk going around town
saying that Ghedi is just an Abgal
jackass.
And that ain't right.
Saying
that Ghedi does not trust in the name of
the Lord.
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—Mahamud Siad Togane
