Garowe (PP Commentary) — It has turn into a speaking level in Puntland concerning the alternatives that the Puntland State has missed since 1998, when the primary post-1991 autonomous administration was based. Successive Puntland administrations have failed to remodel its tradition-bound establishments into trendy ones reflecting the rules articulated by the founding President of Puntland State, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. Yusuf said {that a} federal system was the best way ahead for Somalia. Twenty years in the past, Somalia adopted a federal system. Puntland, an ardent advocate of the federal system, is the least pro-federalism member state. All energy is concentrated within the government department of the federal government in Garowe.
Ahmed Mentioned Aw Nur served because the Training Minister and Fisheries Minister underneath the administration of Puntland President Mohamud Hirsi (aka Adde Museh). Just lately, Aw Nur wrote an article posted on his Fb web page to spotlight alternatives that Puntland missed when it was the one federal member state with political leverage to expedite the tip of the transition in 2012, amongst different political feats. Puntland leaders didn’t grasp the importance of the post-transition interval. Aw Nur argues that Puntland didn’t search a Particular Association of its personal just like the one which Somaliland administration secured in 2013 on the New Deal Convention in Brussels for growth support.
The second missed alternative Aw Nur talked about, although considerably unconvincingly, is the failure to print forex solely for Puntland. Puntland has all the time printed Somali shilling of its personal, which is authorized tender solely in areas managed by Puntland. In 2020, when former Puntland Finance Minister Hassan Shire Abgal claimed that the Somali shilling from areas outdoors Puntland was driving up inflation in Puntland, Garowe cash changers refuted his declare. They mentioned solely Puntland-printed Somali shilling was authorized tender in Puntland State.
He mentions failure on the a part of Puntland leaders to institute a coverage to maintain arms solely within the arms of authorities. This failure “has resulted in intra-clan battle” argues Aw Nur, who faults the ties Puntland cast with the US in 2002 throughout the Battle on Terror period for the safety challenges with which Puntland is grappling. ‘Puntland missed alternatives it may not ever see once more,’ Aw Nur concluded his essay.
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