How Governor of Bay Region was appointed: a bottom-up approach?
Following the inauguration of Somalia’s Federal Permanent Government (SFG) in August 2012, the formation and acceleration of Regional States that was envisioned in the adopted Somali Provisional Constitution has been in process. The leaders of the SFG in an unforeseen manner have paid rounding tour in most of those regions; assessing the social situation and seeking consultation from the stakeholders of the towns they have landed in. Regions like Hiiraan, Gedo, and Bay have had their administrations upgraded by replacing old leaders with new ones. The armed dominant group in the central regions, Ahlusuna Waljama’ was convinced to rally behind the Federal Government and the Puntaland’s phobia of Centralism has at least been cooled down to the low level; if it is not terminated at all. Conversely, it is the Kismayo scenario that gives gloomy picture and its process seems unpredictable and dangerous. The stakeholders of Kismayo are yet to agree the way forward; though the delegation fro