Catastrophic election!

Voting is important but for people like me who live in places like Somaliland, it is not all that important. Most of the time, your vote does not matter for many reasons.  Sometimes one might vote more than 2 or 3 times which makes your vote useless. Most of the time, people sell their vote and people always would vote for their family/relatives and not for the one who can do good things for the community. What is the point of voting if you can’t guarantee whether your vote will make any change in the future or not?

Somaliland is one of the places where voting has no meaning because no matter who you vote for the person who the current government wants wins. The way governors do their work is exactly the way citizens do when voting. Governors provide jobs for only family members and relatives just like citizen’s vote for family members and relatives.

This last election, I was standing for 5 hour in a line waiting to vote but what difference did it made. One of the guys from the voting booth told me that I already vote therefore can’t vote AGAIN. I did not know what to say when I heard “again” so I quickly got out of the room. I wasn't the first person they send out saying you already vote. Later I heard that the reason they were sending people out and saying you already voted was because the voting sheets were finished. But honestly what was the point of lying?! Why lie to citizens and say you all voted when the fault is yours?! I am not scared of saying this in public because I feel bad about getting deceived by the election committee.

            That was the first time in my life I attempted to vote. I was expecting that it going to be good experience that I will PROUD of talking about it in 10 years, but unfortunately it was not good. It made me draw a conclusion about the whole voting process and the government too. It is a shame for a citizen to be disappointed in their government.

Yesterday, December 6^th, the results of this election mentioned above came out. Many people were unhappy with the results which created an upraised and gun shots. Things were very bad in parts of Hargeisa last night. Two guys got killed and others got injured. This is how tragic the election result was and how bad people didn't trust the election committee by accusing them of corruption. Citizens don’t trust the election committee and government and that is what caused rebellion.