Fifthly, Jubbaland is a local project, for the local people and by the local people, but the President should and will be included in it at the initial stages. That is what federal systems are all about. Any president, be it a Darod one, a Hawiye one, a Dir one or a Rahanweyn one, would have reacted the same way Hassan Sheikh Mohamud did regarding Jubbaland. What kind of madness is this when it seems that the Kenyan army officials have more say in what is going on in Kismayo and Jubbaland than the Government of Somalia? This is a strip of land that immediately borders Kenya and people here are expressing their outrage over the President's concern? The Kenyans are the same people who tried to trick the previous Somali parliament into signing an agreement to sign off a portion of Somali waters to Kenya. Anything can happen.
If that is the case then why did he claim that Hiiraan will be allowed to form its own administration but Jubbaland will be of his own making? If I am not mistaken this was said on the exact same day, a rather suicidal statement from the newly 'elected president' of a nation as tribal as Somalia.
Perhaps Sheikh Hassan is a good man however his entourage does not reassure, instead it makes him look like yet another qabiiliste placed in the power seat by the West.
