Exactly a week ago, the Minister of  Civil Aviation and Transport in Somaliland, Mr. Ali Waran Ade, declared that people from South and South Central Somalia will not be allowed to inter Somaliland because of alleged cholera outbreak afflicting those parts of the country.

Now, almost a week latter, the minsiter issues another order permitting the same people to travel to Somaliland.

The minsiter, Mr. Waran Ade, who was a very junior security officer in the military regime of Siyad Bare, claimed, in contrast to other more knowledgable sources, that there is a cholera outbreak in South and Central Somalia according to specific information that they 'they collected' from those areas.

I did not know that we have such a superior intellegence apparatus in Somaliland!

Who does the minister think he is? Who is he trying to decieve here?

The Minsiter issued the earlier travel ban because he was afraid that poeple coming from these areas my impact on the fragile security situation in Somaliland but later on  lifted the ban because of direct pressure from airline operators in Somaliland, through the president.

If there was a real outbreak of cholera, one may wonder, shouldn't the minister of Health  and labor, Mr. Darwal, have declared the ban rather that the minister of Civil Aviation and Transport?

What a goverment!!!