These seat numbers mean very little. What happened was that the Biciide went mad and filed too many candidates, they competed against each other allowing other groups to gain seats. If the Biciide were better organised I doubt that Dhulbahante subclans would get half of Biciide's seats.Sharmarke91 wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2017 2:30 pm
Then explain why Dhulbahante have 6 members and HJ have 3 sxb?! all am saying is you would think that since the vast majority of Dhulbahante and Warsengali didn't vote, HJ would have got way more members if they had any significant presence. In Las Anod were JS voted and the rest didn't hence why JS have 11 members in the city council. If it was a fair election with all the clans participating I don't think JS could get more than 5 sits. In the case of Erigavo HJ would have taken advantage of the other clans not voting and received way more than their fair share like HY and the JS in Las Anod.
To give you another example of this, in Burco's local election, all of HY got the same number of seats as a single HJ subclan, namely Axmed Faarax. Another crazy result. I still would not say Burco is HJ city. I hope that is clear. The voter registration numbers will come out soon and will provide a much a better picture.
Actually clan settlements did not change much in that part of the country. When the British arrived Ceerigaabo was surrounded on all sides by Isaaq. Some Dhulbahante lived to the East of town and some lived further South.Am not disputing that it was founded by HY, Isaaq but clan settlements have evolved since the British were in Somalia. For example, Caynaba was 100% Dhulbahante town but due to the support of the British its majority HJ today.
The British were not involved in the Caynaba struggle. If you are referring to arming clans, this was in their campaign against the Sayyid, and they armed as many Dhulos as they did HJ, read up on it.
You jestTruth be told, most of the population of the city of Erigavo are HY closely followed by Naleya Ahmed. The other two barely got any presences.
