samatar133 wrote:Cadaani
Believe me census can be done within one year, it is not that complicated. Even the financial part is not a problem, we can raise it. The only problem is deciding who to count as a Somalilander. A legislation should come clarifying who is Somalilander and who is not. Isaaq/GB/Ciise/Dhulos/warsan across the border maxaa laga yeelayaa? Dadka xarshin/awnare/gaashamo/shiniile/Djibouti ku nool ma loo ogolaanayaa inay xadka ka soo talaabaan oo tirokoobka ka qayb galaan?
Those are just some of the main issues. how do you decide who is a Somalilander when our people are nomads who straddle borders? its hard because these people spend parts of the year in SL and parts of the year in Ethio or even Puntland or Djibouti because of grazing or other economic reasons. How do you effectively carryout a census in country where close to 50% still live as nomads and spend a lot of time on the move?
When the UN carried a census of Somalia a few years back a lot of their data was based on heat imaging which is almost guess work.
The most effective and time efficient way to solve this issue is to use the results of the voter registration to determine the number of parliamentary seats for the regions. But of course Reer Awdal are dead set against this and with good reason as it will show that they are in no way deserving of what they are asking for.