Tuesday, December 05, 2006 MOHAMED ABDI(WALI)..AN ASPIRING MANDERA EAST MP Ex-Marine Mohamed Abdi (left) with US Senator Barrack Obama is slated to kick-off his bid to become a member of Kenyan parliament Minneapolis, MN (HOL) -
Ex-Marine Mohamed Abdi focused on Congressman-elect(Minnesota, USA) Keith Ellison’s campaign for the past several months, all the while making important national and international connections for his own bid to the Kenyan parliament.
Ellison is paying back the favor.
He was a keynote speaker at a fundraising event on Saturday, where dozens of Abdi’s friends in the Marines and others from around the world pledged to support him financially and morally.
In the words of one attendee, it was a “mini United Nations gathering in Minneapolis for the sake of a man who vies to represent Mandera East,” a small town in the porous border between Somalia and Kenya, in the elite-dominated Kenyan parliament.
Abdi, who moved to the U.S in 1995, resembles the United Nations in many ways.
He grew up in the Somali-inhabited Northeastern region (NFD) in Kenya.He’s fluently multilingual in English, Swahili and Somali. He’s a dual U.S and Kenyan citizen, who can probably easily obtain a Somali citizenship...
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Note the date, 2006. The candidate didn't win the seat.
However, on the news tonight, Mandera East was brought up as the region most endangering Kenya from Somali muslim extremists, who live on both sides of the Somali/Kenyan border. Military brass commented in no uncertain terms as to how they planned to protect Kenya from infiltration, they fear for the nation...
Obama's support of Raila Odinga who reportedly signed an agreement with muslims to institute sharia law - and the financial support for ODM by 'friends of Senator BO' (even though Raila Odinga was given the position of Prime Minister to halt the riots) doesn't mean he's going to live a charmed life in Kenya forever:
Keep your eye on Kenya. Something's up.