By M.A. Egge
The Ethics, Arbitration and Supervision Committee of the Electoral Commission has once again on Sunday punished Kulmiye and Waddani political parties by fining them for indulging in acts contrary to the code of conduct for organizations and parties as per regulations.
Also in the fix was KAAH political organization for similarly erring, including Kulmiye officials.
In a presser by the committee, they noted that the ruling party KULMIYE had been fined 100m, while both WADDANI and KAAH has been fined 50m SL/Shs each for flouting Law 02/2014 and the general laws of elections, Law 91/2023 and Law 14/2023.
The fines are to be paid within three days.
They also said that the Committee has taken disciplinary action against officials from the Kulmiye Party, and according to them they have received audio and video evidence.
They noted, “Relying on the code of conduct for organizations and political parties, regulation 02/2014, article 9, paragraph 1 and 2, the officials listed below violated this code and were fined, the Minister of Youth and Sports Abdirisaq Musa Farah 10 millionSl/Shs, Secretary General of the party, Faisal Abdirahman 5 million shillings, the head of the campaign Maroodi-jeeh region Mustafe Kodah 5 million shillings and elected rep Mohamed Abib Osman (Sikawi) 5 million shillings.
The committee elaborately accused the Kulmiye Party officials of issuing a decree appointing some government employees as well as some general directors as campaigners in contradiction to regulations and directly against the decree recently issued by the president of Somaliland barring public officials from engaging in active politics.
They charged that Waddani Party campaigned in the regions and districts of the country by ignoring the earlier warnings from the committee.
As for the Kaah organization, it was accused of having its supporters indulging in religiously immoral acts by allowing unbecoming interactions of both gender; and also mounting extra large speakers atop vehicles blaring loud music along roads and streets.
