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By Mohamed A Yasin

The recent conduct of Puntland’s Director General of the Ministry of Finance, Ahmed Jama Jowle, has reignited growing public outrage and deepened concerns over the collapse of neutrality within Puntland’s civil service.

Rather than functioning as a professional state official tasked with safeguarding public financial administration, the Director General has increasingly transformed himself into a political mouthpiece for the Puntland administration — openly attacking opposition figures while aggressively defending and praising the ruling leadership on social media and in public statements.

For many observers, the issue goes far beyond politics. It strikes at the very foundation of public service ethics and institutional governance. Under any functioning democratic system, a Director General is expected to remain politically neutral, serve all citizens equally, and avoid direct involvement in partisan political battles. Instead, Jowle has emerged as one of the loudest defenders of the Puntland presidency, repeatedly using inflammatory rhetoric against opposition leaders and critics of the government.