War Xiin ma aqaani but Duke's lot rent K town from us All others are refugees Other than the minorities, we have to protect the rights of the laangaab of course Oba, tolka warmly accepts your guarded praise

Ismahaan;903115 wrote: Hatu I agree with you 100%. We are Somali, neither Arabs nor blacks nor a mixture thereof. Here's someone with common sense. She even remembered my original username

xabad;903120 wrote: All they need to do now is put the mamas on family planning and send the girls to school. sky is the limit after that. I'm taking it you watched the video? tutu, I'm serious. The mayor told me in person that that is exactly whats going to take place when the town extension starts. He was telling me to go to the mayor's office with my kipanda to register myself or something but I didn't take him seriously at the time. After watching the video I'm actually regretting not putting my name down. As for the buulooyin, there's too many to remember nowadays man. Heck, if suuqo xoolaha is a magaalo today then I don't know what to say.

Keydmedia's revisionism hasn't ended yet?

Based on what sxb. Last I knew we carried 87% Somalid gene. So where does these strange and rather exotic admixtures come from?

No, you made another mistake, we're not mixed race as well. Say it with me, we are Somali, we are not white, nor a we black, we're Somali.

Apophis;903053 wrote: According to close sources, the bank guy is definitely a shoo in. Align yourself with the right people yaa Haatu lest you be left holding the bag :D I ain't aligned with anybody mate. I don't trust politicians much.

Garissa Youth Project Office

I said "I swear you were close to my 6'2 when I saw you". You said "it was probably somalia, I'm 180m".

Apophis;903047 wrote: Is that the guy who owns the bank?? Nah you're thinking of Nadiif the other candidate. This guy is a former PS in a ministry I forgot.

Apophis;903043 wrote: I have seen you and you're definitely 'black'. No two ways about it :D says the short, dark, jareer midget

Daqane;903037 wrote: Brother Haatu indeed garissa has alot of potential but the mentality of that particular segment of NEP is still very much any where but garissa oriented and to be honest and I mean really honest reer garissa are just not friendly or trustworthy in Mandera and wajir you can fence a plot of land leave it and come back 20 years later to claim it and after a short meeting with the elders or witnesses and bam you have it back [happened to several relations of mine] but in garissa even if you are from the clan family you can easily get evicted in a matter of minutes if the wrong guy starts getting a hankerin' for your acreage. I noted you said a master plan has been set up has it taken the deep clan animosities of garissa when dividing up the land? The mentality of 'anywhere but garissa' is slowly changing sxb and will continue to do so IA. More and more people are realizing the fortune that is ready to be made there. First of all, Mandheera and Wajeer are small insignificant towns compared to Gsa. Also add in the fact that these two towns have not had any major migrations like what Gsa have seen so the original inhabitants don't feel like they're being 'pushed out'. Also, consider the fact the no land has been given out by the municipality since 1981 which meant qof walba meeshuu doono ayuu iska oodanaaye. This all lead to the original inhabitants of the town to take it upon themselves to 'defend' their town from those migrating there, which is sad really. All this can be blamed on the municipality itself. If it had continued to give out land, then murankan ku saabsan dhulka muusan jiri laheyn. As for the master plan, I can only hope they have considered this problem. On a side note though, 8/10 times you won't have a problem if the land you buy is normal sized. However, the problem comes markaad oodata/gadato a huge piece of land.

Xabad we most certainly are no n!ggers! Somalis are neither white nor are they black. We're simply Somali, nothing more, nothing else. I don't buy this afrocentrist view of labelling every non-white person as 'black'.

nuune;903030 wrote: ^^ Fiican Haatu, lafahaa dadka badankood ma yaqaanaan in laga wado iska warran or see tahay. Yes, was there in garissa as recently as maalin dhaweyd ay qaraxyo ka dhacayeen and all that looting by the Kenyan Police. Any business plans I will do in GSA, it will put that into hold, Xamar comes sxb, that is my place, and the place for doing business. Have you being to Nairobi recently, you will notice how ghost it is becoming in terms of business, Somalis are moving their assets secretly, taking out their money from banks and moving si qarsoodi ah out of the country, final destination, Xamar, MMA can verify this as well, it is happening everyday, what can GSA do to attract those businesses who are moving away from Nairobi for security reasons, nothing that GSA can provide, except use GSA as a transit hub for resting few minutes, and gone to Xamar. Reality check is needed, noted your master-plan things, how reliable is your maamul goboleed, is that all GSA could come up, very dissapointing! It's a shame many people don't know what lafahaa means. At least give a proper jawaab though As for reer Somalia going back to Xamar, that was expected. Nothing to be sad about, it's probably for the best as well. As for investing in GSA, the locals are enough. We're not talking about starting a whole automotive industry sxb. We're talking about a few factories to cater for the livestock sector (such as bireynta xoolaha nool, leather production etc) and industrial farming. For this neer Garissa and reer NEP are enough. Add a few hotels and the town shall do OK. Relying on shisheeye whether they be fellows Somalis from Kismaayo ama Xamar is never sustainable because as you just mentioned they can go home any day. Reer GSA ayaa isku filan and I already know a lot of them here in London who have gone back to start investing. As for the maamuul goboleed, I fail to see how that is disappointing considering how the rest of the Somalis want the same thing. I'll have you know that I'd rather be ordered about from Gsa than Nairobi.

Buulooyinka magaaladda: Buulo Iftin Buulo Cadaan Buulo Sagaaraay Gaaris Yareey Suuqa Xoolaha ADC Province That's all I can recall now. tutu add some if I've forgotten any.

Pffft! Who needs you sxb. There's a certain candidate called Ali Korane and if he gets in Yaa Salaaaaaaaaaaaam waaye if you get my drift :D

War nuune, we're not leaving it to the politicians to invest their own money, they're not far-sighted enough. The city municipality itself is the one that's pushing this agends and the masterplan. I spoke to the mayor personally and this was all he was talking about, the man is literally obsessed about the town re-structuring. The problem he had was that in the current system he had to wait on Nairobi and for them to accept before he could do anything, but come the maamuul-goboleed in March this won't be an issue anymore. This plan has been years in the making and it has finally reached the implementing stage. As for the other sectors, I you've been to Garissa lately you should know the truth yourself. When I say around 80% of houses have access to clean, piped water, this is no exaggeration. The only problem now is that in some places the water-flow isn't 24hrs for some reason. This could be due to incompetence on the part of the water board or it could be due to limitations in the system (this system was introduced in 2000 by funding from KSA when the town and its populattion was much smaller). As for electricity, that too is no lie and anyone who's been there recently will bare witness. With that done, we move to the future sectors the municipality is hoping to develop. As you know the town currently only usues a small percantage of the land available to it for farming on the river banks and this is using outdated labour-intensive techniques. What the municipality plans once the County is established is to send people abroad as I said before to learn the necessary technology and then to seek international support to implement and irrigation system. As for the industrial/manufacturing sector, all the municipality aims to do is to provide potential investors with land and access to the necessary infrastructure. If the local elite don't take advantage of that then others will come and do just that. As for my dairy venture, I give it to you it's at least 10 years off but a person can dream can't they? War ninyow lafahaa? Waayahan waa lagu waayee.

Sxb, as of the near future, magaalo soomaaliyeed oo Gaarisa gaari doonta ma jiri doonta. Today, I'll estimate that 80% of houses have access to clean piped water, 70% have access to electricity and the sewage system is just being built and will reach the whole town soon IA (I saw then digging the trenches in 2011 should've taken pics). Also, the town now has a master-plan and many buulooyin/xaafaddo are going to be reorganised and land is going to be given out to locals....for FREE! In the plan there's spaces for parks, mosques, schools, business areas and an industrial area to kick start the local industry. As is mentioned in the video, reer Garissa County (maamuul-goboleed keenna) have access to 500km of the banks of river Tana, currently only 20km is inhabited. There potential for agriculture is HUGE. In the video I posted the mayor talks about how when the maamuul-goboleed is established in March 2013, then want to send people to egypt and other countries to learn how to use the river for irrigation for farming. Let me just give you one example, Garissa is the hub for the livestock trade in Kenya. Unfortunately, most of the animals go to Mombasa alive where the businessmen there make the real killing. Part of the master-plan is to have local factories in Garissa that slaughter the animals and take advantage of the non-edible parts of the animal such as the hide and bones.. Also, one area I'm interested in is dairy production. I hopefully want to start a dairy production plant in the future IA. Fodder and grass will come from the local farmers and the water from the water board. Electricity isn't an issue as well Al Hamdulillah. Add to that the fact that the towns population isn't very big so reorganizing isn't going to be a bid headache like its going to be for other somali cities like Boosaaso, Kismaayo etc. Things are looking good and Allah has finally given us visionary leaders and a maamuul-goboleed come March. Now, I just hope we get a decent Governor.

5, yes I was only 14 back then, but I'm 18 now so you better take my posts seriously Coofle, no it wasn't a typo. As for Abtigiis' posts, war I'm more mature than odeygaas qurbaha ku hallaabey Aaliyah, no, it's 94. Wyre, no joke ya casiir

tutu, yeah that's passed the main gate. It's the entrance to the actual building. As for suuqa, yeah it used to be baadiya back in the day. Nowadays it's overcrowded and lacks the planning of townka hoose. It's become a nightmare really. Che, why would I need to go to a hotel in my own town? Doesn't make sense tutu, what do you know about the new town masterplan? I heard that they're going to literally wipe out some buulooyin and plan them properly from scratch.

Apophis;902867 wrote: Expensive place with terrible food and full of neo colonists. I had lunch there and never went back. Really? I personally have never been there so I can't comment really. Neo-colonialists? Explain bal.

lol Apo, my old town is going places ma istiri. I think this is where my fortune lies if this plan is initiated. I might just have to force my mum to give me her farm

International Airport, parks, stadiums, mosques, this plan is magical

He also talks about how they plan to give each new plot of land markii la gooyoo good road access, fibre optics in the future IA and gas mains if private companies want to install them in the future. Exciting times for my town!

Very interesting from 35:00 onwards. The guy is the one responsible for coming up with the Garissa city masterplan. They're going to expand the city and give it proper planning. Jidad baa la bixin as well. Balooda qumannna oo baaxad weyn ayaa la goyn doonaa oo la qeybin doonaa. This giving of land is usually free for locals. This was the talk of the town when I was there in 2011. I met the mayor and he was encouraging us to put our names in the list. I think I just might do it after hearing this.