Puntland: From a Utopian Vision to a Clan Enclave

[NASSIR]

Originally posted by ThankfulSP:

Nassir,

The article that started this thread seems to be complaining about something that I feel is not present. Like I’ve said several times now, if Puntland is clan enclave and was not being fair to Reer Maakhir would Gen Ilko-Jiir have made the run that he did? You've stated that oil exploration is not a good thing at the present time. I agree that for Reer Maakhir it isn't, but in other area's such as Bari there was no issue with it and people there were excited and supported the deal.

 

How can you possible say something negative about the livestock quarantine? In 2001, an out break of Rift Valley Fever occurred in Saudi Arabia, and was subsequently blamed on African livestock, in return Many Arab nation banned all imports, crippling our economy and hurting thousands of farmers. Like this report from relief web shows

The effect of the ban is likely to be "devastating" for countries, such as Somalia, which are heavily dependent on livestock exports to the Gulf states, a regional economic expert told IRIN. Cade Muse administration was the first in Somalia to address the ban, and purposed an alternative to Arab nations where a facility would be built in Puntland that would test animals and ensure that they met there standards, which would then allow our livestock to be accepted. Saudi Arabia and other gulf states agreed and it happened, the same Arab group is now doing the same thing in NW Somalia. You say that small traders are going out of business because incomes of the pastoralists as the price of each live stock will be much lower? Do you realize before the livestock quarantine that is exactly what was happening, before the only alternative for our farmers was to send their livestock to Djibouti for vaccinations, which would result in their income being significantly lowered? The live stock quarantine that Cade had built remedied and satisfied the complaints from Puntland farmers. They are now making more money then they were before when they had to go through Djibouti. Arab nations won’t accept our livestock directly from us without the quarantine, things are better now!

 

No, I recall how established livestock traders protested against the deal because of the relative size of al-Jabir company and the possibility of their highly concentrated market power, which means our people who entirely depend on this major sector will suffer---their socio-economic condition that had been improving under the perfect market will start to deteriorate . According to these traders who initially filed their complaint to the former minister Siciid Qoorsheel reasoned that they had found a diversified market like Oman and other places, which completely phased out their dependence on Saudi Arabia as the principal market.

Thus why I said that, "The quarantine deal is sort of monopoly. It drives out many small traders out of business and thus lowers income of the pastoralists (after it secures its market power) as the price of each livestock will be much much smaller than what they used to sell to individual traders. I hope the administration avoids in taking harsh measures which exclusively limits the freedom of established individual, livestock traders for the use of Bosaaso port.

 

Nothing negative about the above comment.

 

Now the gap of our differences is much closer than was seen from your first post.

[Thankful]

Now the gap of our differences is much closer than was seen from your first post. [/QB]

My position has not changed and remains the same. The article that you posted that started this thread is flawed and neglected to mention many key points. First Reer Maakhir has always been treated fair - if not and puntland is a clan enclave then Ilko-Jiir would never have came so close. Second if the author is going to mention everything negative about Cadde Admin, then he should mention the good to. But reer Maakhir and Cade Muse had a history long before he was president.

 

I never once heard about the farmers being upset at the livestock quarantine. Garoweonline was definitely putting their spin on that. How can you compare Oman to Saudi arabia there is like more then 26 million people living in Saudi Arabia. I said it before and I'll say it again, after the ban livestock had to go through Djibouti who would then vaccinate them and take a significant cut and now it goes straight from Puntland. Which has created over 50+ high paying jobs for our men and women.

 

Listen unlike this bias article, we should mention both the positive and negative aspects. thats it, that's all.