Summary: Most Somaliland politicians bend the laws of the land and steal money or solicit bribes because they need the funds to support networks of patronage. Others do it in order to reward their nearest and dearest or to maintain a lavish lifestyle when their political lives are over. 

Most politicians bend the laws of the land and steal money or solicit bribes because they need the funds to support networks of patronage. Others do it in order to reward their nearest and dearest or to maintain a lavish lifestyle when their political lives are over. But these mundane reasons fail to explain why some officeholders in Somaliland go on a rampage and binge on endless quantities of lucre. All rationales crumble in the face of unnamed Somaliland political leaders who absconded with millions of US dollars from the coffers of Somaliland tax payers and resources.   These inconceivable dollops of hard cash and valuables often remain stashed and untouched, moldering in bank accounts and safes in Western banks. They serve no purpose, either political or economic.

 

 But they do fulfill a psychological need. These hoards are not the megalomaniacal equivalents of savings accounts. Rather they are of the nature of compulsive collections.   These politicos were not only crooks but also kleptomaniacs. They could no more stop thieving than Hitler could stop murdering. Venality was an integral part of their psychological makeup.   Kleptomania is about acting out. It is a compensatory act. Politics is a drab, uninspiring, unintelligent, and, often humiliating business. It is also risky and rather arbitrary. It involves enormous stress and unceasing conflict. Politicians with mental health disorders (for instance, Narcissists or psychopaths) react by decompensation. They rob the state of Somaliland and coerce businessmen to grease their palms because it makes them feel better; it helps them to repress their mounting fears and frustrations, and to restore their psychodynamic equilibrium. These politicians and bureaucrats “let off steam” by looting.  

 

 Kleptomaniacs fail to resist or control the impulse to steal, even if they have no use for the booty. According to the Quran kleptomaniacs feel “pleasure, gratification, or relief when committing the theft.” Wamaa yuqnii canu maaluhu idaa taradaa .”.   As most kleptomaniac politicians are also psychopaths, they rarely feel remorse or fear the consequences of their misdeeds. But this only makes them more culpable and dangerous. So let’s make no mistake, the reality of why this county never get finish one project is that no one of us ever ask or question where all these tax revenue goes? The answer is simple and clear- Kleptomaniacs through tribalism is above than the check and balance system.  

  Commented by Saylac.com Desk