Galmudug or Galgaduud and Mudug are the only regions with political power in which NO ONE knows or cares about the "Governor." In fact, it has ALWAYS been that way. Nobody has ever KNOWN and no one has ever CARED who the "Governor" was---
---because they were irrelevant.
Caabudwaaq is independent to Dhusamareb. Dhusamareb is independent to Cadaado. Cadaadonis independent to Ceel-Buur. Ceel-Buur and Ceel-Dheer are independent to Hobyo
Imagine off the bat how we all know "Governor Jeyte of Hiiraan" or "Governor Buulle Gareed or Macalimoow of Gedo." Heck look at how we know "Gedo Regional Stabilization head Bakaal Kooke."
Those are powerful Governorships and State offices.
The governor of Galgaduud or Mudug has been the exact opposite---the least powerful, relevant, state offices.
Why is it this way?
Because Galmudug is the poorest State in Somalia.
Galmudug is so poor, political competition is not about "wealth creation." It is not about equity generation, decreasing the poverty rate, building world class cities.
None of that---because it is so poor, has virtually no resources and overwhelming part of the land is worthless.
Rather the political competition is about a "race to the bottom" in "numbers" of seats. Essentially, how many "seats" can I get in a worthless "parliament," in fictitious "district council," in frivolously created "positions"
The Director General for "butt washing." The Manager of "Stare at the wall."
So what do they do to be distracted with that?
They do something that no one else in the country finds relevant ---Galmudug is beset by 'a crab in the bucket' style obsession with "deegaameyn." Or in other words, while political economies want to "create" wealth (production), Galmudug is creating "recipients" (beneficiaries).
It is mind-blowing anti-growth, anti-advancement, anti-development, I mean just ANTI every single thing implicated in what makes a successful society.
Presently, I was speaking with Sbashi who asked me "how many villages would you say Cayr have in Balanbale."
I said 'None", matter of factly with all that I know about it.
He said "How is that possible when they always say they have 20 villages in Balanbale and there is Xirsi Lugeey where a peace sit down happened."
I said to him exactly;
They don't have a single village in Balanbale and matter of fact, villages cannot survive poor, resource bare, dry Galmudug."Xirsi Lugeey" they have one single building
built for the conference and named "south Balanbale
poice station"In 100+ videos of it did you see a single footage of a settlement or village?
The "villages" in the entire central Somalia landscape can be counted with 1 hand.
1. This is not farming south where self-sustaining peasant villages can exist
2. This is a harsh land and the people historically and even now are mostly livestock pastoralists
3. You either base your permanent hanti in the big settlements or you are herding livestock meaning moving.
And the very few actual villages are places that had the few permenant sources of water and are strategically held like Dhabad or Gelinsoor or previously Guriceel and Balanbale.
Let's use recently created village of Saaxo as a good compare and contrast on this. Saaxo is a village, a real one even if it was created recently. Saaxo has grown spectacularly as a settlement because it was authentic and it was built with resource implication. They have been saying they have "20" villages in Balanbale yet beyond 1 sturdy structure as a police station cum gathering hall cum school cum clinic, etc essentially "shirt for every implicated scenario" and 3-4 tin collapsibles for pictures, there is nothing else to those 20 "villages" they allegedly have in Balanbale. Saaxo, an actual village, looks like New York City in comparison.
In fact when Galmudug named "Dhabad" a degmo, they also named "Af-Barwaaqo" in Hobyo the same with it;
Galmudug is too poor to exist as a Federal State and the majority of its population so poor of equity, the state ITSELF is not implicated in "wealth generation."
It is not concerned with economy, growth, development.
Galmudug is a bucket full of crabs who are competing in "numbers" of seats as the ONLY distraction and there is an infinity level to the amount of possible "created" seats.
It is going to collapse before HSM's term ends---
---and, if you remember, it didn't even fully exist until almost half way past Farmaajo's presidency when Sh Shakir and Sufo were defeated.
And I know it is going to collapse, because Marehan has fully made up his mind to make it collapse.
They are only waiting for the "trigger" to implicate serious 1991-level type of hostility, this time fully taking control of everything WEST of the highway.
