The current path of S/land paves the way the road to hell:

It is imperative to say that since the people of Somaliland decided to go separately from the rest of Somalia in 18 May 1991, the country have been creating abundant revenue to provide its citizens, the most basic needs such as water, which they finding impossible to procure daily. Today there is no sufficient water and there is no hope that, things would ever be getting better. People walk long distance to get water. They go through harsh and terrify environment and for many this proves to be the most treacherous conditions that, they have to go through daily. Subsequently crime such as robberies and sexual abuses against women and children are too common.

The country’s infrastructures are crippling badly too. There are no a roads. The entire country’s infrastructures are almost no existence. Notwithstanding that, nobody care or has done anything to repair them since the collapsed of the late Somali government in late 1990s. There are potholes every road. Vehicles breakdowns are in masses and these poor drivers often face the prospect of paying hundred of thousands dollar bills to repair their vehicles. The rain poses risks to people’s Health & Safety. Moreover, the local media has reported most recently that a 10 years old girl has joined the growing flood victims. Her body was discovered passer-by, the next day. However, people are still endangering their lives to cross the river, which divided the city daily. There was an incident, which involves a bus full of passengers. The vehicle was attempting to cross the river while it was still flooding. The flood capsized the bus. As a result, two people died. According to an eyewitness, the dead told could have been far worse if the rescue workers did not attend immediately.

Furthermore, the Bridge, which people suppose to use, has been damaged by flood five years ago and since then it has not been functioning. Hence, people did not have other option but to walk via the river as an alternative route to go their homes. In doing so, many are risking their lives. Although, the government, have been promising to the people that it will be completing the bridge but disappointingly it has not been finalise yet.

At night, the country is in darkness. There no is electricity in all the major cities. Unemployment is record high too. A none profit organisation, that wants to remain anonymous and based in Hargeisa, has reported recently that, youth from the breakaway of Somaliland have started going aboard in research for better lives now than ever before. It went to say that, this is because the level poverty the country is enduring and the luck of optimism of its youngest that things would ever be getting better. It went to say that, the country economy was mainly depending on the Diasporas. They were bring money into the economy via building houses, buying houses, purchasing lands or occasionally setting up some of the finest businesses the country has ever seen. Unfortunately, the government’s lack of knowledge of the importance of inward investments for the country, the investors were disheartened to continue investing and subsequently bring money into economy, which eventually generate jobs for their follow fellow citizens. Instead, they faced criminals. The local government became the biggest culprit of all. These people have been targeted. There were no law, which can protect people including for those returning from aboard.

Mrs Khadra is an example, and she is an elderly woman. She visited the capital of Hargeisa in July 2008. She has not seen the country 20 years. According to this mother, she was feeling jubilant to have the chance to see her homeland again after so long.

She arrived at Hargeisa airport at 12pm local time. At the airport, immigration officers approached her. The officers asked her to give her passport. She handed it out. The two officers then disappeared into thin air. The officers did not say to Mrs Khadra where they were going or what they were going to do with her passport. Mrs Khadra, thought, it was the airport’s procedure to collect passports from passengers. She did not suspect anything. She started to wonder after approximately one hour. She asked other officials at the airport where is her document? However, she was told to pay extra 60 dollar in return of her passport. She could not believe what she was witnessing. She was upset. She thought she arrived at her own hometown. It proves to be the worse experienced. She travelled to many countries in different part of the world but she never seen anything like it. She paid the $60 dollar to obtain her passport. Whistle in Hargeisa, she rented a house. One day, she had unsought police officers. They took the front door of the apartment where she was living without any notice. The officers did not say why they felt necessary to take the door. They did not even say where they taking it to. She then told her neighbour what happened to her. As a result, neighbours made phone calls. The door was located. She was asked to $200 before the door was released.

It is an ironic, how thing has changed over the years in Somaliland. Corruption is epidemic and it is taking place every part of the country. Every police official, every court and every politician want bride from the people they suppose to service. To make the matter worse, almost all the prisons are full of innocent people, who have done nothing wrong while the real criminals are walking freely on the streets.

On 02/04/2009, an innocent father was convicted a year in prison because he was allegedly accused of witnessing a man selling a land and failed to let the authority. He denied the allegation that was putted before him. There were no witnesses either to substantiate the court’s claim. Despite this, a brain dead judge found this father of six children guilty for a crime that he has never committed. This father was the main sources of income for his family. Today his wife is straggling to feed their children. His wife asks the children to go and eat with their neighbours during the lunch times. Indeed, there are hundred of thousands victims in up and down the country, who loses their lands and their belonging through miscarry of justices in the hands of kangaroo courts that reaches the wrong judgments, which often influence by bride. Most victims are the most vulnerable people in the society but unfortunately, they face inapt kangaroo courts.

Today every person wants to leave the currently in research for better live. Undeniably, for the last 5 years the world has seen record numbers of people from Somaliland. These people are young men and women with children. They are risking their lives into the sea. Unlike South of Somalia, these people are running away from hunger, corrupt system, unemployment, no public education system, no health care system, and injustice. People want the chance to alleviate poverty their loved ones but leaders dressed up as politicians have denied them their chances. At this moment, the reality on the group is that people of Somaliland are straggling to provide food for their starving children and there is no sign this will ever getting better.