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Cowke

Can Federalism Work For Somalia?

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Cowke   

This is interesting topic and please keep clan-politics to the side and argue on benefit and failures of this system for somalia.

 

The benefits I see of federalism are.

 

1. Each state can be ruled by it's own tribe and maintain it's own tribal affairs. Just similiar to the way somalis have always been with clan-territory and clan rule. Examples such as makhir and north-east sultanates.

 

2. 1 person or region will not be given central control of somali affairs. This centralism flavor was forced upon Somalis by colonizers and I believe this was 1 of the many factors into leading into the clan-suspicions, instability, and finally full blown civil war.

 

3. Federal option de-regulates wealth of the nation at state/tribal level. Each clan can focus on what priority is required for his or her people. For example a state government in Bari will not necessary have the same policies or goals as someone in shabelle. Due to different climate and geographical positions. The state government in shabelle might invest into agriculture programs and jobs, while the bari state government will invest into Fishery sector.

 

4. Clan-Suspicions will be lessened because people will have their own clan controlling their affairs and not someone else from distant clan.

 

5. Competition will increase between states as they try to provide better infrastructure to their constituency.

 

6. The federal government will be more enpowered from local competition of states and will have a larger economic GDP.

 

7. The federalism will continue to remain somalia united which majority of somalis want to see.

 

8. It is internationally endorsed by world superpowers and regional watch-dogs.

 

9. A kid in shabelle won't have to worry about getting secondary level education in hamar anymore, or job, or electricity, or health surgery as this will be provided to him within his own locale by his own state government.

 

10. Federalism has proven to work for hundreds of years because somalis lived in this de-centralised mode of life of clan-rule and clan-territory and it's proven successful. Where-as centralism has proven un-sucessful and was inplanted upon nomads by colonizers that didn't care for the local structures in place.

 

11. Finally the lie of building a government based on tribe won't work line is cheap lines by colonized minds. Tribe does work, it worked for our fathers for hundreds of years such as north-east sultanates, makhir, hirab, ******, etc. why can't it work today? And not only that but it's proven to be successful, YET alot of people still chase after failed systems of colonizers. It shocks me to disbelief. Even the colonizer you so chase after is based on tribe. Look at the U.K it is based on scottish tribe, irish tribe, welsh tribe, and english tribe under federal de-centralised unity called the u.k.

 

So even the colonizer policies you so care for is still based on tribe, therefore that line of "qabil qaran ma noqta" total Hogwash as far as im concerned.

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