This is my Promise

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

If the oil money is not spent to the greater benefit of Puntland, and if transparency becomes a serious issue I will go back home and take up arms. Whoever makes it their duty to fill their coffers with the wealth of the people is willfully putting the entire region on a path towards violence. I will abandon everything and trek through Puntland by foot, addressing elders from Maakhir to Mudug, rallying our people for freedom. I view it as an obligation and will treat it as such. No one can be allowed to bully our people.

This is my Promise.

[dagameison]

Wlc back monk, I doubt that is the case if they were look at how many projects have been implemented and how many haven't its an easy 70% success rate. The only projects I can think of that the govt bailed out on are;

1. Railway project by hafza
2. Bosaso airport runway

Those are the only two. So they have a good success rate at managing projects I think the same will be said for oil. They know its in noone interest to lose it all by having war. Anyways wlc back and u should keep active cause I have been looking forward to your quality posts.

[Aseelah-Raaida]

I will await your call to take up arms ,Shaykh Monk "Che" Ibn Haysus Maxmoud.

[Niya]

Will Puntland be an exception to the Resource Curse Theory/ the paradox of plenty experienced by other countries, especially in Africa?
Somalis fight over water wells, grazing lands, and imaginary boundaries. No matter what the intention of a government, the reality is that Somalis see everything through the prism of qabil, laf, jilib, on and on - obsessive focus on the granular. What am I going on about? Some-group, some-where will feel there has been no fairness/transparency etc etc etc and hence consider taking up arms (with total disregard to the lesson that 20 years of fighting in Somalia provided no resolution to anything!)

Puntland needs to step back and study what not to do and mistakes to avoid.

PS:
The oil companies are there not to only make money but to maximize their profit to the fullest.
Settling for a random road here, a dusty runway there etc is an offensive recompense actually!

[CismanMaxamud1]

I promise I'll start my own clan militia

Mujahida CM1

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

Thank you for your support, mujahidas, our women have always played a role in our political and armed struggle.

Niya, only time will tell, honestly. We can shine like Qatar, or we can fail like Angola. Its a hard thing to predict. Regardless of the conflict and background, our society - especially clans like those in PL that place respect and honor above politics, we are much more like the Gulf societies than the ones in African oil states. Is a Harti clansmen like an Angolan urban slumdog or is he like a Bedouin? That should give you some insight.

You can't possible place small skirmishes by individual grazer families in such a huge light. That happens everywhere in the world, even modernized Turkey. And you can bet it happened very recently in the Gulf. Even Libya and Iraq have been deduced to that.

We'll be fine, I know it. We built Puntland, and it is in peace, and we built it before anyone offered any soul a single monetary incentive. Oil will make us stronger, we are already a house with great foundations - the others like Nigeria and Angola had no foundation.

[SahanGalbeed]

Regardless of the conflict and background, our society - especially clans like those in PL that place respect and honor above politics, we are much more like the Gulf societies than the ones in African oil states

Qatar , has the al thani
Kuwait ,the al sabax
Saudi Arabia , the al sauds
etc,etc,

There's nothing as such in Puntland. Puntland =majeerten /harti/daarood { a clan}. Your history tells us that a peaceful cohabitation is not always above politics among your clan .
There is no King that everybody is satisfied with in Puntland and you're only comprised of a majority single clan {not even tribe}, so you cannot compare yourself to either Qatar or Nigeria

Raggan iyo faan badnidooda maalintaan soo ogaado waxa la kala siiyo , waa ban ka baxaya Snet

[abdalla11]

I dont kno why people are affraid of civil war and Nigeria scenarios. The people backhome showed how much they want peace and development when they built their cities, drafted constitutions and built an entire succesful government in the midst of a devastating civil war. The presence oil will make things better. The only thing i am worried about is getting hustled by the corporatocracy

[tightrope]

MONK

[samadoon-waaxid]

jesus chrysler,this section's rhetoric went from "i wanna be the next arab sheikh" to "i swear to God i'm gonna carry up arms against the corrupt officials" what gives? or is this is a classic case of col hortiis jabay.
p.s:the fourth quarter is almost over,any drilling in the sight?