"Since the founding of the city of Garbahaarreey, all the regional governors that occupied the governor’s office of the capital, Governor Mohamed Abdinur Iris was the most famous governor and most influential leader of Gedo Region in terms goals accomplished by a politician in Gedo. Governor Iris, (Gudoomiye) in Somali, implemented some of the most well-known public works projects. Expansion of the city's only hospital and improvements to the roads, which connect some of the region's district seats to the regional capital, were some of the realized goals set by a Gedo governor. And this is attributed to Governor Iris."
One of Gudoomiye Iris's lasting legacies was the creation of boarding school on the outskirts of the city of Garbahaarreey. Many public works projects were in the pipeline when the civil war erupted in Somalia in early 1991. All previous governors, and those who came after governor Iris, have left for the city or for the region for that matter, little or no progress to show for. Past and present of governors of Gedo are as follows:1
"Governor Mohamed Abdinur (Iris) made the most headway in creating subtantial public works projects in Gedo region. His administration in the 1980s created a boarding school in the region's capital as well as the expantion of the Garbahaarreey-Buurdhuubo road.
Garbahaarreey in the last thirty years has seen close to dozen governors as compiled by Mohamud Dahir Dhaqane 1.These are the past and present governors who occupied the governor's office in Garbahaarreey."
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