What is Your opinion on President Cabdiraxman Faroole?

[paidmonk]

It seems he's the right man for the moment in many aspects; he's fixed many of the corruption issues that plagued Puntland during Cadde Musse's regime, he's remained stubborn and steadfast in maintaining Puntland's topdog position in Somali politics/TFG, he's maintained Puntland's legitimacy in SSC from what he had to work with post-Cadde Musse debacle, and he's (to my amazement) successfuly maneuvered and manhandled the embarrassingly savage situation in Mudug, albeit he had to involve all sorts of fancy techniques and all parties of the Puntland nation to solve it (fuck reer Mudug by the way).

I have to say, with him facing much greater troubles than Mujahid Cabdullahi Yusuf Axmed and having to take care of these situations in a modern-not-geelwase opposite AY, its a toss-up. I will go ahead and say that he's done his time and he's proven so far to be a capable leader as well as a Majerteenian Mujahid.

Any inputs?

[Abdi-Halim]

Farole is doing ok so far, he did an excellent job in mudug and reforming the local administration. Believe it or not the governor of mudug has to have a "degree" as a bare minimum to be considered for the role was farole policy. Which is good, he wants a competent local administration in each region to work with in order to benefit the ppl.

He is doing great things with the security and forming a massive force and not disunited militia as was the case with the previous admin. He is tackling piracy as best as he can untill the tfg passes over the navy it won't be fully tackled. He is bringing all the aid companies into puntland in order to deal with the ever-growing idp population which feeds other disasters like tahrib. So far so good. Generally speaking he is looking for huge reformation of governance from the bottom to the top approach. He streghtened ties in the livestock sector to make sure puntland is the first spot the arabs come to because it is using excellent facilities to make sure its livestock are healthy.

Bad points of farole
Has been playing around with all investments made under cade term. Companies like africa oil, range resources, lootah(bossaso airport and port).n
He has to put a little effort into drought which needs to be extended. They were holding meetings with the u.n in relation to that a couple of month ago, he needs to keep pressuring the u.n in fulfilling their promises. The drought issue is of serious concern to our locals, it is not temporary thing and has been going on for years now. It needs a permanent solution not a band-aid solution like (water-trucking) which only solves it temporarily. But what happens when the next drought comes? that is why a permanent solution is needed. I suggest cloud-seeding. Maybe set up a fundraiser in the diaspora and raise up $500 000 to invest into the technology.

Over-all faroole has been good, he promised las canood will be holding the next puntland anniversary..I will hold him to that!!!

[Southie4life]

Faroole spends all his time in Garoowe, he told the Puntland Intelligence Service 4 or 5 months ago to move out of a section of bosasso where they have their base in and gave them a deadline, which they basically said to him get lost. They are still in the same neighborhood and refused to move. He is a very weak leader who many in Puntland think is too scared to go to many areas. He went to Gaalkayo for an extended period of time, but only after one of his ministers was killed. The people there have such little respect for his admin that they targeted someone that he had appointed for a revenge killing. Puntland’s former leaders were always show respect and ministers could travel freely. Now they need to go everywhere with several body guards. He is given very little respect in Puntland. Even thought he was against African Oil and Range Resources and all the oil stuff and said it was illegal, he has such little power the he is unable to get rid of them. People (Allah u naxariisto) are dying of thirst and the drought is worse then it has ever been, and though it isn’t his fault, as the leader he hasn't even visited one area yet. Road blocks are being put up right outside of Garoowe and shootouts are occurring. The pirates have been gathering all their resources and waiting for the monsoon season to end so they can start attacking ships again and President Faroole hasn't done one operation in Eyl to shut that area down. If he is unable to even close that town, which is situated in his home province, how is anyone going to expect him to control the state?
I think Faroole is doing a poor job and underestimated the position. He hasn't even signed one investment deal or started any development projects. He has spent all his time asking for hand outs from the international community, asking for aide to fight piracy, human trafficking, the rebels in the south. He hasn't brought any companies or produced any jobs. He needs to really start to think of Puntland State and not just Garoowe.

[Abdi-Halim]

Southie all you said is cool, but there is one problem. Ahmed Wallad Abdalla is the problem, when he said yesterday.

Axmed Walad Cabdala mar uu ka hadlayay arimaha Puntland ayuu sheegay in Puntland maanta tahay meesha ugu nabada badan Soomaalia, horey haday Somaliland u ahayd waxa uu Axmed Walad Cabdala sheegay in Maanta Puntland ay tahay oo Somailand ay xabadi ka dhacayso Caasimadoodii.

Is he a liar? Not to mention the organization is represents. What about when sharif and geedi and all the dhaqaan hawiye said puntland is the most stable and peaceful place in somaliya. I guess they are liars!!! But u r correct!!!

War sxb Puntland loves their leader, no matter what clan. Majeerteen hal meel bay ka wada soo jeedan, u get it!!! he was given a red carpet treatment every town he visited, he came to qardo, galkacyo, bossaso, he is going to sanaag next. You are just dreaming if you think people don't respect faroole!!! See the isimo back farole, and the isimo rule the degaans. No amount of killing ministers or not will change how heavy that support is. Isimo ayaa meesha taliso sxb, and the isimo gave farole their approval!!! everything else is history!!!

[Abdi-Halim]

As for the drought, yes that is problem facing puntland and it is being addressed. The only reason 3 ppl died of thirst who were most likely idpz is because puntland doesn't get its fair share of aid companies in our state. we only recieve 2% of what is intended for all somalis. But that is going to change, our ever spending $$$ in hamar has also affected our economy. So their are reasons for that, if the aid companies as intended is set up in puntland as was signed in the galkacyo accord. Watch puntland sky-rocket!!! not to mention if we stop giving way to much resources to hamar!!!

Puntland is the best place in somaliya and that bothers you, but won't change the reality sxb. As long as that ahmed wallad abdalla and united nation supports me and the big man in the white house. I am happy man!!!

[Southie4life]

This is my opinion from what I've seen. The subject of this topic is asking our opinion on President Faroole and I’m giving it. Faroole son(s), particularly Mohamed Faroole has a strong grasp of the media. They know that the major websites, allpuntland, horseednet, puntlandpost, sbc are watched by many and each of the sites represent the different clans. So what they do is pay them off not to write anything negative. Whenever something comes out that is negative article they attack it. Garoweonline which is owned by Faroole son, will never ever write anything critical of the current admin. Everyone is pictured in a rosy image. When Horseednet made a complaint to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) about a beating one of their journalists was subjected to, Garoweonline accused CPJ of getting involved in clan politics and that Horseednet was attacking the Puntland government for tribal reasons. Is Garoweonline the mouth piece of the government now? Or is it neutral? Why would they defend the government so quickly? The point i'm making is that they pay people and websites not to write negative things and when, something bad comes out they attack the source. They are doing this by pretending Garoweonline is an independant and fair site. When it is run by the Presidents family, what other Puntland president had a son or daughter working as a reporter? Just like when the 5 religious men from Pakistan were killed and only Garoweonline said the murders happened in the southern part of the city trying to shift blame somewhere else. Even though everyone knew (especially in Puntland) that Puntland controls the area were the murders took place. Ahmed Wallad Abdalla and all these people you are naming can be bought in a second. You pay them the right price and they will say what you want them to. Faroole sons are focusing through Garoweonline, on the image of Puntland. That's their number one goal! You can tell me about welcomings he got back in February when he very briefly toured the only paved road. But his visits to those places have been few and far between. There has been countless murders, and an unheard of assassinations on government officals from the governor of Bari region, to the minister in Gaalkayo. I don't see any business or jobs being provided, just begging for international aide and complaining that our percent of help is too small compared to the rest. So whether he gets money from the UN or the international community to help fight his problems, it's not going to be viewed as development he brought to the nation but hand outs he successufully begged for. The people are realizing it to.

[sheekh-Farax-zero]

He shut down Cadde muse's Cash factory

[Southie4life]

He doesn't need a cash factory. The biggest pirate base of Eyl, Nugaal, provides him with more money they he needs . Their aren't any other bases like that in the state, what a coincidence it situated so close to him. And there was a spike of attacks the year before the elections, he's innocent because he was in Australia right.

[Southie4life]

, he won't close down Eyl I promise you that. If he wanted to, he could with one phone call.

[Abdi-Halim]

Southie the funny thing is everything you said and u made accusations of corruption and paying off website. In a court of law you will be required to bring your evidence forth of cash-payments made to these media, if you can't you need to apologize for the baseless claim!!! So show me where Farole paid the media to say good things about him? Show me when the money was exchanged and who was given the money!!! That incident with horseedmedia was the first of it'z kind in puntland, puntland has free media. It is the most relaxed form in the whole horn!!!

So you need to prove your accusation with evidence, because u can't call someone a thief without evidence. You provided speculation!!! and speculation is not evidence, i can make speculation over anything. Proving it is all whole different ball-park!!!

[Highland]

Lool at Southie4life aka Abdi Halimo. Good job.


Paidmonk, A known fact is that Faroole is a Pirate chief who controls only his base.

With regard to the question of "TFG", the Government of National Union needs the support of Puntland to earn a modicum of legitimacy Since al-Shabaab controls much of the country. The recent deal between PL and GNU was initially designed to rein in Faroole's irrational outburst in his second attempt and get a portion of the security money set aside for the War on Piracy.

But the deal won't be signed by the President. The International community will simply backtrack on their promise to aid this Navy project if they realize Puntland, which is the main center of piracy and human smuggling, would host the headquarter for the Somali Navy.

Faroole has already been shown the exit door when he asked for $20M a year to fight his own family crime.
And now to think of his U-turn attempt of earlier failure would be received with a different perspective is at best naïve and ridiculous.

He is also taking on the same path of his predecessor on Oil and mineral explorations deals around the Bosaaso area---a stronghold for the Dubeis clan.

It's better for him to quit and let the honorable Nurudiin from the powerful Omar Maxamuud take over the lead of Majeerteenia.

[gemini07]

Highland ^

By calling Puntland "Majeerteenia" you're dismissing the other clans that share a deegaan with us.

[Amethyst]

He's alright, but he's not real...Cabdullahi Yusuf's that deal. lol...J/playing.

The man fits the job description to the T. I like how he can deal with the elders as well as the Educated/progressive elite. In good with the Puntland clerics and uber-religious, as well as the people in the diaspora. Everyone seems to back him 100% , since he was never a warlord, and even more so due to his smooth transitioning of power. Basically, He has this laid-back laissez-fair approach to his style of governing that says, live and let live rather than die if u disagree , that I find thats pretty refreshing. Its because of this that he's achieving progress on all fronts, whether it be appointing qualified ministers under him (who get their jobs done btw), or getting those long overdude projects on the road.

One thing throws me off tho; I feel like he could work on his military might a bit. Because so far, I picture him to be a president, not no commander in-cheif in a state, as stable as it can be, could change over night!! Proof is obviously the gaalkacyo issue, and the worry/lack of faith people began having in him. (& PMonk: Fuck reer nugaal by the way! )

[Abdi-Halim]

Highland nuradin lost just like ilkajir lost. Farole won and the clan-elders choices must be respected!!!
As for farole he is about horumar and as long as he does that for our region i am happy, i don't want wars with hawiye or isaaq sxb. Warz are easy to do, building something is alot harder!!!

[Abdi-Halim]

I like the omar mahmud ppl but the truth of the matter is they are not really that educated or have the leadership qualities. They make excellent generals and military soldiers, but not leaders. As leader u need to look beyond petty clan beefs which abdullahi yusuf couldn't. He was adamant in settling old scores in hamar!!! A leader of the ppl thinks of the ppl (abdirashid sharmarke) AUN!!!!

So in time of war the omar mahmoud have been leaders of majeerteen, but in time of peace i very much doubt so. Because they lack that educated base to be liked by all somalis!!! Wa dad reer miyi ah. There is no problem with reer miyi, they have their role in puntland, but don't step over your capabilities is all i am saying.

Farole is excellent leader, he is educated and i support him. I know he can stop the piracy if he wanted to do, but obviously he doesn't want to because he wants to get the navy and all the funds for puntland, which is smart move if u ask me!!!

So let sharif hotel cough up the brussels conference funding and base the navy in puntland and piracy will then be eliminated!!! wale wa rageedi