I am still in shock from the news Badhan has over-taken Qardho as the 4th city and with these little towns such as carmo, saaxo, waciye all rising up from oblivion, I think we may even fall further down the rank, if we don't get our act together and provide a vision for this town and the role it will play in Puntland. Right now being a pit-stop between Bosaso and Garowe is un-feasible in the long run.
Does anyone have ideas what can Qardho do that is unique and only Qardho can do which is needed in Puntland? because we need to create an industry that is 'Qardho' specific and performing a key role in the state. The more our main town dwindles in the rank, the less respect and the less political consideration we will recieve. As everyone knows in Puntland, nothing is given, everything must be earned in the state. There is no clan in the state that is just given consideration for nothing and there doesn't seem to be this so called 'warsangeli' attitudes in sanaag.
It's a rough place in Puntland and you must earn your spot or you basically die and noone will really lose sleep at all or care at all. Ask what Farole said to those boys in Baargaal when they were running around with that 'Gardafu state' nonsense, he said to their clan elders and I am quoting the words 'salada jimco laguma dugto baargaal' manta, he meant you can barely fill a mosque in your town and are insignificant. It's up to them to get their act together but there is no 'freeby' ayuu ula jeeday.
This may happen to Qardho in the future, not now but if cities and towns keep rising as they are and If las anod returns we are already pushed down to 6th place. It's a matter of time before these other smaller towns start rising up, say 10 years and our rank could slip down. Galdogob Road is a damn life-line also and could change the game in Puntland with Galdogob to Garacad boosting their economic activity with the Ethiopia livestock trade. I really fear, in 10 years time Qardho will be struggling to hold even 10th economic town of Puntland and when that happens, we will start to vanish slowly from Puntland politics. Just look how HY in SL are vanishing from SL politics and look at all their towns, it's got nothing and their future is being sealed and I think if we don't get our act together, what is happening to them in terms of military violence is what I see Qardho becoming with Puntlanders attacking us as we still have this 'entitlement' attitude to political consideration but our economic activity won't justify it to the administration.
Does anyone have ideas what can Qardho do that is unique and only Qardho can do which is needed in Puntland? because we need to create an industry that is 'Qardho' specific and performing a key role in the state. The more our main town dwindles in the rank, the less respect and the less political consideration we will recieve. As everyone knows in Puntland, nothing is given, everything must be earned in the state. There is no clan in the state that is just given consideration for nothing and there doesn't seem to be this so called 'warsangeli' attitudes in sanaag.
It's a rough place in Puntland and you must earn your spot or you basically die and noone will really lose sleep at all or care at all. Ask what Farole said to those boys in Baargaal when they were running around with that 'Gardafu state' nonsense, he said to their clan elders and I am quoting the words 'salada jimco laguma dugto baargaal' manta, he meant you can barely fill a mosque in your town and are insignificant. It's up to them to get their act together but there is no 'freeby' ayuu ula jeeday.
This may happen to Qardho in the future, not now but if cities and towns keep rising as they are and If las anod returns we are already pushed down to 6th place. It's a matter of time before these other smaller towns start rising up, say 10 years and our rank could slip down. Galdogob Road is a damn life-line also and could change the game in Puntland with Galdogob to Garacad boosting their economic activity with the Ethiopia livestock trade. I really fear, in 10 years time Qardho will be struggling to hold even 10th economic town of Puntland and when that happens, we will start to vanish slowly from Puntland politics. Just look how HY in SL are vanishing from SL politics and look at all their towns, it's got nothing and their future is being sealed and I think if we don't get our act together, what is happening to them in terms of military violence is what I see Qardho becoming with Puntlanders attacking us as we still have this 'entitlement' attitude to political consideration but our economic activity won't justify it to the administration.
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