This argument is made by many idoor with typically low IQ. Simple rebuttals:
- LA is on the main road. It has massive advantages as a location between Berbera, Bosaso and Koonfur. Buhoodle is in the middle of nowhere.
- Garowe, the previous capital of Sool, is growing as rapidly without the need for an idoor presence.
There is no evidence, at all, that the presence of idoor militia helped LA. The murders comitted by SNM actually dissuaded most Dhulbahante businessmen from investing in LA.
LA will grow faster under the control of its own people.
For belly-cackles, let me buttress yours with the following perspective.
Theirs is on a par with the Trumpian gyro-economics in arguing that his Admin, in 4 years, created more jobs for African Americans than 8 years of Obama's, bearing in mind US was technically bankrupt in 2008 with the Fed. Res. printing mint in the trillions to save banks and large companies, post Eron & Lehman Bros. collapses. In reality, under his Admin, AAs were the worse impacted in real estate ownership, criminal justice, employment in high paying jobs for college educated professionals etc. For example, in his 2nd year in office, unemployment rate amongst AAs was 16.7%, whereas it was 7.5% when Obama left Office, highest since the Great Depression; let us not even sneeze at the highest death rate amongst AAs due to Covid-19, with their making up the largest group in front line workforce, with Hispanics being second in line.
Now, in the summer of 2007, Las Anod had a large population closely competing with Bosaso, and with half of its population displaced and never returning, post Oct. 2007 Xaabsade & Cambaashe takeover, inhabitants-wise, it was on a par with Qardho in 2018.
Now, how does one have the gall to discuss growth and development for a city with half of its population, most of whom are its human capital, still residing elsewhere?
Here is what the cyber warriors, still in their wet diapers, will not say, or perhaps know not: Las Anod has technically become a base for maruading SL militias, and I have seen more gun-slinging, ill-fed, poorly-dressed, qat-chewing, macawis-longing, sandal-wearing militias in the city than any other in that area, and to beef up the claim of its growing, more non SSC lower class people started moving into the city hawking counterfit goods, qat, and other unspeakable vendibles.
The good news: reer SSC are awake, much the wiser, and more determined. No more hoodwinking from the mirqaan-marred secessionists.