STORY: University students

exchange views on Somalias 2016

electoral process
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LANGUAGE: SOMALI/ENGLISH NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: 5/12/2016, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
SHOT LIST
1. Wide pan shot, Simad University, Gahair campus,
Mogadishu
2. Medium tilt down shot, Simad University sign and
students being checked as they enter the campus
premises
3. Wide shot, students seated outside one of the lecture
rooms
4. Med shot, students standing in a group at the
campus
5. Med shot, students standing in a group at the
campus
6. Close up shot, students standing in a group at the
campus
7. Med shot, Rtd. Gen. Jama Mohamed Ghalib, political
science lecturer having a discussion during one of his
classes
8. Close up shot, a student contributing to the
discussion
9. Close up shot, Rtd. Gen. Jama Mohamed Ghalib
talking
10.Wide shot, students listening
11.Pan shot, students listening
12.Close up shot, Rtd. Gen. Jama Mohamed talking
13.Wide shot, a female student asks Rtd. Gen. Jama
Mohamed Ghalib a question

14.Close up shot, students listening

15.Tilt down shot, a student taking notes
16.SOUNDBITE: (English) Rtd. Gen. Jama
Mohamed Ghalib, political science lecturer,
Simad University
In the 1960s, youd go to a polling station and cast your
vote where you wanted to go. Here there is no possibility
of one-man, one-vote because of the insecurity in the
country. But they wanted something to be different from
what it was in 2012. They wanted to make it appear to be
progress, and maybe it is.
17.
Wide shot, students attending a lecture
18.
Close up shot, a student listing during the lecture
19.
Close up shot, a student listing during the lecture
20.
Med shot, student listing during the lecture
21.
Close up shot, student Amal Ali taking notes
22.
Med shot, students taking notes
23.
SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Amal Ali, a secondyear political science student
If I think as a political science student, I would say that
this is a good process. It is being carried out in line with
international practices and will go a long way towards
uniting the people of Somalia.
24.
Wide shot, students attending a lecture
25.
Med shot, students attending a lecture
26.
SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Adow Abdullahi
Isack, student
I am hoping the incoming President will give priority to
peace-building efforts. Secondly, he should work towards
providing free education, especially primary and
secondary schooling, for children from poor families.
27.
Wide shot, students walking at the campus
28.
SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Farhano Abdulkadir,
student
The election of youth leaders is very good. In the past we
have tested the leadership of the old people. The youth
will inject fresh ideas that will be helpful in the countrys
development.
29.

Wide shot, students walking around the campus

University students exchange views on Somalias

2016 electoral process
Mogadishu, 5 December 2016 A group of second-year
students is listening closely to the retired police general
Jama Mohamed Ghalib as he delivers an hour-long lecture
on Somalias turbulent political history in a classroom at
Simad University.
A prolific writer who rose to the position of interior
minister during the regime of Gen. Siad Barre, Mr. Ghalib is
comparing this years electoral process to the universal
suffrage elections held in Somalia in the 1960s and the
2012 electoral process that chose the countrys ninth
federal parliament.
In the 1960s, youd go to a polling station and cast your
vote where you wanted to go, recalled the grey-haired
senior university lecturer. (Today) there is no possibility of
one-man, one-vote because of the insecurity in the
country. But they wanted something to be different from
what it was in 2012. They wanted to make it appear to be
progress, and maybe it is.
None of his students was alive the last time Somalia held a
one-person, one-vote election in 1969. And most were still
teenagers when 135 traditional elders gathered in
Mogadishu four years ago to elect 275 members of the
federal parliament.
Under this years complex indirect electoral model, none
of these students will cast a ballot for the 329 seats at
stake in both houses of Somalias parliament this year.
Only members of the countrys regional assemblies and
14,025 electoral college delegates chosen by traditional
clan elders are taking part in this years voting.
But these young Somalis retain a keen interest in the 2016
electoral process and harbour high expectations for the
legislators and president who will govern their country
through 2020.

I am hoping the incoming President will give priority to

peace-building efforts, says political science student
Adow Abdulahi Isack.
Secondly, he should work towards providing free
education, especially primary and secondary schooling, to
children from poor families.
Some of Mr. Isacks classmates give this years indirect
electoral process a good grade.
If I think as a political science student, I would say that
this is a good process, says student Amal Ali. It is being
carried out in line with international practices and will go a
long way towards uniting the people of Somalia.
Some students view the indirect 2016 electoral process as
a vital first step on the countrys path to democracy. They
are particularly encouraged by the number of young
candidates who have won election to the House of the
People.
In the past we have tested the leadership of the old
people, says student Farhano Abdulkadir. The election of
youth leaders is very good. The youth will inject fresh
ideas that will be helpful in the countrys development.