No one pays tax to alshabab in Bosaso, they dont control it at beast they kill one officer or two every month. If they are hiding in the mountains in 70-100 numbers how are they taxing people?
Cause the useless puntland government is too busy picking fights with the federal government and fighting over useless towns with other Somalis instead of negotiating with them.
They aren't hiding either , they control that hold region. They often venture out and capture towns from puntland without a fight.
Maybe instead of Puntland fighting with other regions within Somalia , they ought to focus on getting rid of a terrorist group allied with al Qaeda within their territory.
Maybe if they actually paid their soldiers, the likelihood of that happening would be higher.