No doubt his degree in management has helped the mayor in tackling the many intractable problems facing the city. When he took office a year ago, the city had only $128 dollar in its treasury and a deficit of ten billion Shillings. Making his job all the more challenging was learning that the city employs more than 1,000 people who have not been paid for months and as a result took other jobs to support their families.
Bringing a city like Mogadishu from the brink requires tremendous organizational and management skills which the mayor has shown to possess in spades. Upon coming to power, he identified three urgent tasks: improving the city’s security so that its citizens can resume normal life; cleaning and removing twenty years worth of debris from the city; and lighting major streets so that businesses can flourish again.
Although some of his goals have been realized such as improving security and brining businesses back to parts of the city, the mayor continues to face an uphill battle. It took twenty years for Mogadishu to disintegrate and it’s going to take many more years of hard work to bring it back to how it used to be.
However, one thing is clear. If anyone has the tenacity and vision to get the job done, it is Mohamoud Nur. Always busy thinking of new and creative solutions, the mayor recently went back to the drawing board and devised a new plan for the city which he calls Mogadishu City’s Business Plan for next four years. The new plan is intended to empower Mogadishu’s residents to be independent from foreign handouts and go back to the proud and self-sufficient people they once were.
http://www.hiiraan.com/op2/2012/jan/moh ... _year.aspx
I think he should run for president in 2012
