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Norway pays Somalia's government salaries

Monday, September 09, 2013

Norway has started paying the salaries of Somalia's government bureaucrats believing that this is the best way to help the fledgling state establish itself.

Money from Norway's aid budget is going towards paying the salaries of 380 public employees in the country,
with Price Waterhouse Coopers managing the transfers.

The first payments were made last week, and went to workers in the country's Ministry of Finance and country's Auditor General, two organisations which need to be functional for the country to be able to fight the government corruption seen in the previous transitional administration.

"What we expect is a strengthened public financial sector, which can control the budget, be transparent with their projects, and so enhance the reputation of the government," Norway's international development minister Eidsvoll Holmås said of the project.

Last year, Somalia's parliament elected Sheikh Hassan Mohamud as its new president, but the state's ability to administer and control the country remains weak.

"In Somalia, international organizations run schools, healthcare and do everything that a state is normally expected to do," Holmås said. "Building up the state's competence allows it to increase its legitimacy, and so you get greater incentives to create political stability and peaceful development."

"The payments are administered by PricewaterhouseCoopers and employees must register
biometric data to ensure that the payments go only to the intended recipients."





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Do you think these people would get paid if it was left to Hassan Sheikh?

They can`t feed themselves....protect themselves.....or govern themselves.
Yet expect the whole country to be handed to them on a plate.

Good Shot from Norway!!

Somalia will remain this way until the Last Hour.

Somalia is a welfare state. Look at s/land, the govt receives no foreign handouts, it pays all the govt employees. The education, health, security, military of s/land is paid for by the taxpayers of s/land. Somaliland can annex entire old Somalia if them fufu soldiers left today. <<----

jamal9 wrote:Somalia is a welfare state. Look at s/land, the govt receives no foreign handouts, it pays all the govt employees. The education, health, security, military of s/land is paid for by the taxpayers of s/land. Somaliland can annex entire old Somalia if them fufu soldiers left today. <<----

If you actually believe that, go kill yourself.

Worst president since 1960. Its just embarrassing to even think this guy can be the president of my country. At least Garowe and Hargeisa pays his team albeit with foreign aid but not in this embarrassing quintessential Hawiye way.