Siciid85 wrote:
UDUB - 33.23%
Kulmiye - 49.59%
UCID - 17.18%
Waa yaabeh, its quite embarassing really.
Siciid check this out about Gabiley over 50 years ago:
"During the nineteen-twenties harvests got better, and markets stayed healthy and Gadabuursi enjoyed good revenues from their grain harvests which they sold in the Protectorate where tax was light and indirect. Indeed after the British re-established themselves in the Gadabuursi areas of the Protectorate there was an abrupt decline in trade between the Ethiopian centre of Somali trade in Jigjiga and the Protectorate. Customs receipts at one of the Protectorate customs posts at Gabileh fell from 27,000 Rupees in 1920 to 12,000 Rupees in 1922, with official imports of grain falling from 1,625 tons to 832 tons. The decline in revenues was partly due to increased cultivation in the Protectorate itself, but the figures hid the increasing instances of grain being smuggled from Ethiopia across the border to markets in the Protectorate avoiding Ethiopian taxes at Jigjiga.[18]
In spite of the Ethiopian efforts to collect taxes and establish effective administration on the Ethiopian side of the border, the British rather churlishly accused Gadla-Giyorgis of ‘maladministration’ and reporting that he had reduced Jigjiga, the once prosperous town ‘to a half-deserted weed-grown ruin’.[19] The British appeared blind to the effects that their timid indirect taxation was having in the Jigjiga region. Nevertheless the Ethiopian government continued to bolster its claim to the Gadabuursi through the recognition of individual ambitions to the ‘chieftaincy’ (known as the Ugaas) of the Gadabuursi."
Source: The Haud Dispute Revisited: Ethiopian,Somali Boundary by Cedric Barnes, School of Oriental and African Studies
Direct Source: ecas2007.aegis-eu.org/commence/user/view_file_forall.php?fileid=910
Gabiley must have had a considerable Gadabursi population back then because it mentions here during the British protectorate, most of our income was based on our cultivations in Gabiley and Allah knows best.
