This past week I read an article about how the governor of J/hoose held a meeting about planning for possible flooding (shabelle river already flooded with predictable cholera out break).
The plan was simple, to tell the NGOs they need to plan for the almost certain flooding of the Jubba river.
The level of mental handicap, complete lack of responsibility and continued reliance on foreign aid like drug addicts is damning. This film is played out in many towns in Somalia where planning and meetings revolve around which NGO should be doing what and why mayor X is unable to convince NGO Y to come to town to govern. Because the task of actually running cities, states, and the nation has been handed over to NGOs, contractors, and hired mercenaries (AMISOM) while self appointed MPs, presidents, PMs sit and talk. You will come to realize every somali "expert" CV is filled with different NGO work, positions at the UN.
Somali leaders spend half their time in Nairobi, Addis ababa, doing rounds on European embassies passing a begging bowl.
This same attitude, waiting for others to provide things also plays out in the Diaspora. Self styled activist in Minneapolis will wail and howl at lack of funding and "discrimination".
