It's better to decentralize the funding for development and have all get some development funds then to have one place get all the money and it never reaching other areas. Centralism is not coming back.
i.e. "Don't put your eggs in one basket"
There's no doubt, federalism is here to stay, but the question becomes, do we want a federation or confederation?
This is where I see the center of the debate.
Yeah confederation vs federalism is the discussion. Medium Intensity federalism vs a Looser Federalism. I can entertain this discussion, centralism is just un-thinkable since it's what caused our civil war in the first place, to say you will repeat it again and achieve a different result will require a-lot of faith. Even an Islamist like
@Cognitivedissonance has RULED that option out and he love MUSLIM UNITY.
I would argue your central bank and currency and banking system registrations being located in Mogadishu can have a huge impact if they decide to cut that lifeline to you like they are now with madoobe over airports lol. They are simply not mature enough to trust such critical lifelines to a state. Foreign affairs is another one since PL has historic relationships to maintain and neighbors who the southerners are not effected by across the red sea. So this is a big one foreign affair matters being solely in the hand of Farmaajo isn't wise.
Security apparatus scares me the most. All weapons and arms centralized to Mogadishu? who in the world signed this nonsense of federalism, mise waxay ka ahayd 'ku meel gaar keliya' meaning we will work on this now till we find something more REALISTIC later. I am not going to pass my security apparatus to Mogadishu when Xalane prefer living in shipping containers then be hosted by Mogadishu. This is uncalled for to expect PL to do something a foreigner won't do himself.
The only thing I think hurting Majerten is our 'naxaris' and 'religiosity' which can be seen as a weakness, people take advantage of it thinking 'ilahi ayuu ka baqaya'. Waryaa ina gumeed, anigu kuma nooli naxarista 'islamka', waxan ku nool ahay awoowahay ayaa dhul, saldanad, iyo umad ii reebay, anigu magan uguma ahi niin xun aduunka joggo ma garatay. I am gobanimo majerten, you are lucky you have this
@Cognitivedissonance among us who loves u cause of ISLAM, but remember at all times, Majerten also have they're tribalist arm called SSDF and we are powerful as HELL. Look what that Bah dir boy got in the election, the PSF GUY. Diyano. 31 votes against 35. He is killing all u islamist, tribalist, or anyone against PUNTLANDNIMO. We are the arm of majerten that ensures our name and bloodline is alive, we ain't going to accept ajuuran outcome for ourselves and we will ensure
@Cognitivedissonance Goes back to the mosque and helps the IDP running from HAWIYNIMO.