Puntland doesn't have any major companies nor small businesses to generate revenue and create jobs.The Puntland goverment doesn't collect tax and struggles to pay off their soldiers,civil servants and SSC clan elders.
How can they fund schools, hospitals and create jobs in SSC when they can't do it within PL self?
Now that you mention those EU funded road projects in PL,didn't those projects all somehow fail to meet any standards in the last 4 years?
2016 source:
https://www.garoweonline.com/en/new...s-eu-funded-road-project-marred-by-corruption
The project was considered the second biggest project to be implemented in PL in the past 25 years and reported to cost 6 million,sponsored by the EU through Germany based organisation,GIZ.
To attempt the same in Sool and Sanaag will not cost 6 million and the EU is now cautious about there future investments in PL.So were is the money going to come from?
Wrong.Its all about money.Plain and simple.
Money talks and bullshit walks.
In the eyes of the people from SSC Puntland is an unreliable partner and has a shaky foundation.While the Somaliland goverment employs a lot of their young men in the national army,give their young women civil servant jobs and pay the clan elders.The SL goverment doesn't miss a single month of payment while Puntland can't even pay for its militia.
Economic development which Puntland isn't even capable of jump starting within its own capital city.The reason the PL goverment fights so hard for SSC is because they believe there is oil there that can safe them.
Its not SSC that needs PL as much as PL needs SCC.Because oil is the only thing that can jump start Puntlands economy which lacks both major companies and small startup businesses.