To begin with accept greetings from your cousins in Garissa county of Kenya. We believe and know very well that, you are an important part of us and that your position and role in our societal needs and expectations is undeniably essential for no one in his right mind can do away with a real brother. To take you back on memory lane and facts in history, the people of Garissa are the very ones who pacified the land you currently occupy in Somalia; all the way from Galgadud through Gedo and in fact, it’s known to all of you that, the town of Abudwaaq was one of the Garissa community settlement and named after their grand parent of whom they are their off springs. You will also remember that, the famous King Abdi Ibrahim who also led the Garissa community after emancipating the Darod and Orma from the Elaay King at Buur Hakaba pacified Bay , Bakool, Gedo and lower Juba and in his sun set days fought the British in Jubaland and some of the settlements that our cousins the Marehaan were demonstrating in against their brother’s leadership in Jubaland this week was Ceelwaq whose known name is ‘Ceel Hache’ and Grand Elder ‘Hache’ who first settled at and dug the well in the mid of Ceelwaaq town has his off springs living in Garissa’s Bulla Iftin as ‘Rer-Hache’ and a clear pointer of the land that you currently occupy as being ours all including our fight against the British by King Abdirahman at Bardheere, Sarinely, Saakow and Salagle. Back from the short walk in memory lane, we want to affirm that, we love you, we respect you, and we value you for without you, our known and open enemies in the God forbid and horrible South-Central Somalia will have a space to rejoice and therefore we would rather have a brother as one of us and a neighbour than persons nursing historical enmity and have since 1960 planned and organized the downfall of your parent family the ‘Greater Darood’. You very well know that, both pre-post the late Gentleman’s (Jaale Siyaad) period, we always treated you as close kins and of course there may have occurred some isolated individual wrongs but we have never thought of or organized a collective punishment against the Marehaan and indeed you can very much recall the heroic reception and welcome that our leaders including General Mohamud ensured the Marehaan leaders led by the late President Siyaad were accorded to the chagrin of the Hawiye militia leaders like Gen. Aideed and the late Wajir west MP; Ahmed Khalif. To be more specific, we flew, entertained and accorded your leaders grand welcome, after your today newly found friends; the Hawiye humiliated them and we kept them in Garissa and Kenya as their home place with the late President and his entourage issued with Diplomatic Passports and immunities and kept in the then most prestigious hotel i.e the Safari Park Hotel under the watch of General Mohamud. We vacated our palatial homes in Garissa for the top Marehaan leaders and gave them the necessary safety and support with all documentation until they left the country to places of their choice. All these was done because deep in our hearts, we know Marehaan were our kinsmen and never have we dreamt that, our arch enemy since time in memorial will mobilize our cousins against us so that, they oppose our suggestion of federalism and armed to fight and kill us for the sake of the Moqadishu ‘paymaster’. I must caution that, not all Marehaan are set against their brothers the Darood but to be honest a good number who are opportunist, self-seekers and owned by the Hawiye either by virtue of marriage or blood relation have waged an unexpected war of all forms to humiliate their Darood brothers in Jubaland and to mention but a few; we have people like Saacid Shirdoon, Abass ‘Talhe’, Barre Hiraale, Mohamed Abdi Kalil and many at Abudwaaq and Garbaharey of whom majority are Marehaan ‘Galti’ who are bent to see our humiliation and even if it was their wish, our ultimate expulsion from Jubaland. When our brothers the Marehaan are given money and arms to oppose the formation of Jubaland government and are used to be in the front line to fight their fellow brothers including patriotic Marehaans, then you will come to a quick conclusion of the Somali saying ‘ If one of your fingers gets bad, then it’s worth to cut it off’ and probably your many cousins in Jubaland reached a point of no return to react and clean Kismayu of enemies of the Jubaland and in the process hurt many of you who openly waged war against them in their midst. Garissa people are saddened by the fact that, the Darood family had to face each other in a war that was planned by the Hawiye President and his ruling group in Mogadishu and we pray that, those amongst you who have been misled, will reflect on your actions against Jubaland and come to your senses and lead the process of Jubaland protection and defence against the enemy. The people of Garissa are shocked to hear in the media and see over the television some Marehaan groups demonstrating against the being of Jubaland state and openly abusing and hurting your brothers from the other Darood families as aliens and as hired Kenyan mercenaries in Somalia who just came from Ethiopia and NFD contrary to documented historical facts in respected libraries and in Nation’s intelligence records. The prayer of Garissa people is that, our Marehaan brothers will sit back, talk to each other and reflect on their actions lest history judges them wrongly and for the posterity of the Marehaan community, we pray that, you will join your brothers in emancipating their lot so that never again, the enemy divides them and slaughters them separately. Your brothers in Garissa are very much aware that, there is an on-going mobilization for you to wage war alongside our enemy from Moqadishu, Galgadud and Gedo but we urge you to think twice as we have no bullets to direct against you and we know we will be the losers in the event of your decimation and or displacement. Ooh Brothers, we once again urge you to read the signs of time and stop following Hawiye illusions as we have formally severed any relationship with them and that no one and we repeat no one can take us back to their humiliation and not even by the entire NATO ground, sea and air assaults can convince us to trust them again!!!. Therefore do not leave me for the enemy when I cherish you as my blood brother for you may live to regret your actions. I beseech anyone interested in understanding Jubaland better to visit the below site lest you accept deliberate misinformation as facts. jstor.org/stable/1778081 Khalif Abdi Farah alias ‘Firimbi’
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:51:52 +0000
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