Where shall I start? Well for one, he implies that he supports Somali unity but proposes disunity by carving up Somaliland in to 5 separate regional states along clan lines under a national Mogadishu based government. As if further Somali division would bring one closer to unity, hence why I find this notion ridiculous.
Second, he recognises the political and administrative legacy the former British-Somaliland of 1960 with its 6 districts, he recongnises the 5 administrative provinces of 1991, but completely denies the governance and administrative reality of the 1990’s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. He is even against the use of ‘Northern’ regions, denying even the geographical reality.
Being against Somaliland’s recognition as a independent sovereign nation is one, but denying the existing administrative, governance and geographic reality is insane. You have to work with what you have, and it is only from accepting what you have that you can really start to make progress.
What this gentleman is proposing is more state collapse, more clan based governance, more division and more chaos.