TFG forces fighting within themselves?

[Wigad]

is it true ive been reading several websites that the tfg military and police are fighting for a junction in muqdisho called hawlwadaag, this is really an embaressing thing for the mighty tfg that supposedly tame the wild muqdisho to turn on themselves. i hope they keep fighting eachother so they wont get in the way of the resistance fighting the ethiopians they wernt much more than a shield anyways.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Mooryaaan dhar milateri iyo mid booliis loo giliye cannot be called legitimate, trained 'forces.'

[Som@li]

Source? lol

[Armchair Politician]

It's true, the TFG army and TFG police are fighting over checkpoints. The checkpoints are in reality extortion-roadblocks and are highly profitable, and the TFG army and police are severely underpaid.

 

It's actually a three way battle between the Federal Army under Yusuf, the Federal Police under Qeybdiid and Mohamed Dhere's Benadir Police. The only money they have access to is from these roadblocks, and I bet the higher ups do nothing to stop them, so they are competing for funds basically.

 

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jGfglG4oQcbM3twPBeRmuKHYS7VA

 

It's absurd really. Not only are the police and army doing nothing to take down roadblocks set up by tribal militias and gangsters, but they are setting up their own.

 

It's reasons like this why the local people hate the TFG army and police.

[N.O.R.F]

Thats why they need 500 Nigerians!

[Armchair Politician]

The peacekeeper's mandate and rules of engagement won't let them do much good.

 

Peacekeepers are only useful in situations where both sides generally want to keep the peace, but have hotheads and troublemakers in their ranks. IE a peace treaty has been signed but factions and elements within the signatories want to renew fighting.

 

Somalia is a long way from this.