Your getting your timeline mixed up Farmaajo was elected 2017 and pro FGS forces only took control of Gedo just a couple of months ago from pro Madoobe forces who controlled Gedo for the last 7 years so your idiotic buffer zone theory is complete BS...where was Madoobe 2012-2020I think it is because they act as a buffer zone between him and farmajo and his Ethiopians in Gedo. Why would he make it easy for his enemies to march to him by securing the lands in between them? Ethiopia isn’t willing to take heavy losses in middle juba so he will be there as long as there is alshabab in middle juba and will not fight them. He understands a lot about politics.