We, the diaspora, need to do something about our oil. I don't have a plan but I have some good ideas on how we can use our leverage as a diaspora to pressure the locals to get out of the away of the way of the oil industry:
1- Take advantage of our clan system and convince our clan elders, possibly with money and the promise of more money, to pressure the idiot in xamar representing your clan to never obstruct any oil deal we back.
2- Take advantage of our presence in the west and mobilize our clan system to act as one entity (I am talking about the south and puntland) and connect with oil companies as the "diaspora", the people who run Somalia's economy and who can literally sanction the government of Somalia using our influence. Then we must market our ability to manipulate our clan elders who are the true legislative branch in Somalia.
3- In addition to connecting with oil companies directly after securing the blessing of our clan elders by paying them 20-10k dollars (that's how much they actually cost) we can start calling our senators and MPs, preferably right wingers, and try to persuade them to add as much pressure on the government of Somalia as possible we can also use the current spike in the oil prices to ask for investments in our oil industry provided by the western government in return for cheap oil (the U.S subsidies ExxonMobil with $4 billion a year so this is not unprecedented).
4- We need to crowdfund a company and ask an oil company, preferably ExxonMobil, or a financial institution or whatever to own a 50% share with in that company and that company would be Somalia's national oil company (runs operations only and doesn't own the oil) which would partly be owned by a powerful oligarchic entity that owns some congressmen (which means any geeljire minded politician would have to think twice before fucking with them because these guys pay Somalia's bills) (We also crowdfunded a useless port worth 300 million dollars we can come up with another 300 million dollars for oil).
These are some ideas I thought were worth contributing. If you have any ideas share them. Whatever you do just don't sit around because you can actually make change (if a stinking swedish bus driver can be the head of parliament you can be a lobbyist and you can benefit from your country's natural resources). We are already the most powerful Somalis in the world and we need to take advantage of our current position and act like oligarchs because we are micro oligarchs.
1- Take advantage of our clan system and convince our clan elders, possibly with money and the promise of more money, to pressure the idiot in xamar representing your clan to never obstruct any oil deal we back.
2- Take advantage of our presence in the west and mobilize our clan system to act as one entity (I am talking about the south and puntland) and connect with oil companies as the "diaspora", the people who run Somalia's economy and who can literally sanction the government of Somalia using our influence. Then we must market our ability to manipulate our clan elders who are the true legislative branch in Somalia.
3- In addition to connecting with oil companies directly after securing the blessing of our clan elders by paying them 20-10k dollars (that's how much they actually cost) we can start calling our senators and MPs, preferably right wingers, and try to persuade them to add as much pressure on the government of Somalia as possible we can also use the current spike in the oil prices to ask for investments in our oil industry provided by the western government in return for cheap oil (the U.S subsidies ExxonMobil with $4 billion a year so this is not unprecedented).
4- We need to crowdfund a company and ask an oil company, preferably ExxonMobil, or a financial institution or whatever to own a 50% share with in that company and that company would be Somalia's national oil company (runs operations only and doesn't own the oil) which would partly be owned by a powerful oligarchic entity that owns some congressmen (which means any geeljire minded politician would have to think twice before fucking with them because these guys pay Somalia's bills) (We also crowdfunded a useless port worth 300 million dollars we can come up with another 300 million dollars for oil).
These are some ideas I thought were worth contributing. If you have any ideas share them. Whatever you do just don't sit around because you can actually make change (if a stinking swedish bus driver can be the head of parliament you can be a lobbyist and you can benefit from your country's natural resources). We are already the most powerful Somalis in the world and we need to take advantage of our current position and act like oligarchs because we are micro oligarchs.
