@Pwyneth Galtrow this is my favorite place in Puntland
As with many towns either it's geographically blessed and ppl poor or geographically cursed but ppl rich. It's a shame but Gardafu are geographically blessed but the ppl are not active or organized, even tho they have a great location.
I've noticed those blessed geographically do not have a strong people spirit. Gardafu is sitting idly while Sanaag folks are creating inter-regional roads and connecting themselves to the grid but not reer gardafu, they just sit there idly. They kinda remind me of b22n mentality.
If they create a road that connects them to the grid like sanaag folks are, this will increase trade and ppl movement, do u know how many ppl wud go there for vacations? They cud create hotels to service the tourists coming while in the down-seasons they can increase their farming frankincense and fishing production as the road will cut their costs of transport to local markets and global. Who knows they might even 'value add' to their raw resources and create small factories to produce other useful innovation like medicine from fish oil.
As a knock on effect it wud create business viability to invest in livestock quarantine facility, electricity plant, water plant, frankincense factory, fishing factory, they simply sit there idly a cursed people wallahi