The practice of hiring foreigners in Somalia must end

[Estarix]

In addition to it being virtually a UN colony its compounded by the fact Somalis look down on doing jobs involving manual labours such as construction and plumbing; so its a cultural issue first and foremost. I remember reading an article linked here where training of these sort of jobs was being offered in the NFD but no-one came to take it. Imagine this occurring in any other poor country? absolute madness.
Secondly the number of diaspora and foreigners taking jobs and driving living costs up making it harder for the average poor and unskiled/semi skilled native is worth mentioning.

Yeah we need to change the way we look at manual labor. Every country needs a set of construction workers and skilled tradesmen. It's the only way we would ever get things done. Many Saudis have this same attitude, and they look down upon manual labor and construction, which is why they hire Indian laborers to do the work for them.

We Somalis can't afford to do that. We shouldn't do that. And we should let go of the stigma of working in certain industries. We need Somalis working in ALL fields. There is honour in working an honest job.

It would be a problem if Somalia went the Suadi path where they hire foreigners to do certain skills, but then reading up on what's happening in Somalia it seems to be heading to that direction.
The truth is that there are very few societies where people would enjoy going out and doing such tough, gruelling and sometimes back breaking work ( in hot conditions) but people are pushed to do it because of circumstance. Although there's a lot of stigma associated with that kind of work in Somalia the truth is that such work is generally not loved anywhere in the planet. The government need to provide incentives for Somalis to train and take up jobs like this. Obviously it will mean reducing flow of remittances such as taxing it, drastically reducing the numebr of foreign workers, reducing the flow of remittances and it needs to make this industry an accessible and easy path for the average person. It also needs to move to change people's perceptions and attitude to this industry etc corresponding with elders, leaflets.

[Itrah]

Foreigners are more reliable employees, especially those from third world countries like India and Kenya who frequently work in Somalia.

I worked in Garowe for a year and it was very common to see Indians and Kenyans working for NGOs.

[Nomand]

culusow rides from one ugandan tank to the next.

and this fool is talking about some white kaffa with some documents anyone can buy for 2 dollars and a title of advising a laughing baboon.