The President of the
regional state of Puntland Mr.Faroole has started last Tuesday 15
January 2012 the drilling and exploration of Oil wells in the Dharoor
Valley and Nugal Valley of Puntlamd.The project will be implemented by
the Canadian company Africa Oil a new outfit and its subsidiary Range
Resources of Australia.In 90 days Oil will be produced and a Production
Sharing agreement is in place.What is the historical background to this
sudden announcement by Mr.Faroole? What are the future implication :
legal and political for the regional state of Puntland? Can he really
Mr.Froole manage to produce Oil in a "clan based and failed/corrupt
administration"? Can he produce Oil in a regional State where Rule of
Law is not common and applied daily?
First let me start with saying that I believe OIL and Gas is one of the reasons of the Somali Problem.The Ethiopian regime of Meles has came to know of the vast reserves of Oil and Gas in Somalia and has encouraged and prodded the so-called regional States like Somali land and Punt land to be break away Republics and explore Oil and Gas for themselves by reneging on old agreements and even the renewals passed as Law in Parliament by the Abdullahi Yusuf government in 2006.In the year 2007 the Puntland regional state made a comprehensive agreement with the Range/Africa groups to have all minerals in the region rights of exploration given to Africa Oil.There was an uproar in Mogadishu which represents the Somali Republic and everything was stopped till now .In Somalia there is not a valid law which makes the regional states empowered to produce Oil or export any other mineral.. Those companies are infringing on the Somali republic sovereignty by assisting the so- called administration of Puntland to export Oil and whoever buys it is going against International law.There is not any law even agreed by the Puntland regional state which regulates the drilling ,production and export of the Oil .There is not any law which regulates in a transparent way how all the money from the sale of the Oil its accounted and used for the benefit of the people citizens of Puntland regional state and how much of that Oil revenue will be allocated to district level and the Federal/National government.
But the biggest issue I would like to take up is the participation/and economic control of the all-Ittixad bussiness cartels as major stakeholders in the overall project and shareholders in the small companies like Horn petroleum which is part of the companies involves like Africa Oil and Range resources.In the last two years the Range group have seen it cannot drill and produce Oil for export with the risk like a group linked to Al-Shabaab/Al-Qaeda based 350 Km in the mountains regions close to the sea which had close relations with the Al-Qaeda of the Arabian peninsula / Yemen. The other factor was the Clans and sub-clans of the Dharoor valley and others which were not feeling had the ownership and participation of the future wealth from the Oil. How to solve all those problems in the region state and how to circumvent the rights of sovereignty invoked by the Central./Federal government of Mogadishu? How to make accomplish all those goals ? What the so- called analyst of the Somali issue miss all the time is the enormous political power and influence wielded and enjoyed by the All-Ittixad Business cartels all over Somalia and the inter-link between this groups even in the different regions/clan enclaves of the Somali Republic. The All-ittixad business Cartels groups all over Somalia are Wahabi-Salafist and have loose links with al-Shabaab ,have almost the total control of every business activity all over Somalia and have as a business methods criminal tactics which they have refined by living and working under a Stateless /failed -country and society.
The All-Ittixad groups have known of the Oil issue for a very long time and always had the plan to control those strategic resources of the Somali- Nation State. They have for a very long time recruited in their ranks people who used to work for the Somali State at Said Barre time and became well informed of all the Oil exploration sites and value.
For the first time the All-ittixad business cartels of Puntland and Mogadishu have collaborated with the so-called central government and convinced them that a sub-divided Somalia will not opposed by Ethiopia and in that way the exploitation of Oil in Puntald will be in their strategic interest.The President,the notorious speaker and PM have given the nod in an informal way and have been been bribed although the Speaker and the president are allied to this groups The implementation of the project was made possible by the good contacts of Al-Ittixad bussiness cartels of Puntland which convinced Mr. Atam the ringleader of Al-Shbaab of Puntland through his Clan elders that the extraction of Oil is in the overall interest of the Wahabi-Salafist groups of Somalia and in particular Portland.Secondly All-Ittixad business cartels have a huge amounts of Cash which came from the financing of The Pirates Operations for the Five years.We Somalis know that the youngsters which were doing the piracy were financed in their operation by this groups and the young men got only 50% of the overall ransom.The world has paid 170 million for the last five years and you divide by two.
With all this cash the All-Ittixad business cartels allied themselves with Mr. Faroole which they were also the group who finances his election in the first place. They bought the Clans/sub-clans Elders ,so- called politicians of the region and everybody which they would see will oppose their project.More to that they are part of the companies which are getting the contracts and sub-contracts.The President Farole and his sons,Mr. Cadde Musse and his young advisers in the project will be shareholders in the companies of this mammoth undertaking for the regional economy.Wait and see.
First let me start with saying that I believe OIL and Gas is one of the reasons of the Somali Problem.The Ethiopian regime of Meles has came to know of the vast reserves of Oil and Gas in Somalia and has encouraged and prodded the so-called regional States like Somali land and Punt land to be break away Republics and explore Oil and Gas for themselves by reneging on old agreements and even the renewals passed as Law in Parliament by the Abdullahi Yusuf government in 2006.In the year 2007 the Puntland regional state made a comprehensive agreement with the Range/Africa groups to have all minerals in the region rights of exploration given to Africa Oil.There was an uproar in Mogadishu which represents the Somali Republic and everything was stopped till now .In Somalia there is not a valid law which makes the regional states empowered to produce Oil or export any other mineral.. Those companies are infringing on the Somali republic sovereignty by assisting the so- called administration of Puntland to export Oil and whoever buys it is going against International law.There is not any law even agreed by the Puntland regional state which regulates the drilling ,production and export of the Oil .There is not any law which regulates in a transparent way how all the money from the sale of the Oil its accounted and used for the benefit of the people citizens of Puntland regional state and how much of that Oil revenue will be allocated to district level and the Federal/National government.
But the biggest issue I would like to take up is the participation/and economic control of the all-Ittixad bussiness cartels as major stakeholders in the overall project and shareholders in the small companies like Horn petroleum which is part of the companies involves like Africa Oil and Range resources.In the last two years the Range group have seen it cannot drill and produce Oil for export with the risk like a group linked to Al-Shabaab/Al-Qaeda based 350 Km in the mountains regions close to the sea which had close relations with the Al-Qaeda of the Arabian peninsula / Yemen. The other factor was the Clans and sub-clans of the Dharoor valley and others which were not feeling had the ownership and participation of the future wealth from the Oil. How to solve all those problems in the region state and how to circumvent the rights of sovereignty invoked by the Central./Federal government of Mogadishu? How to make accomplish all those goals ? What the so- called analyst of the Somali issue miss all the time is the enormous political power and influence wielded and enjoyed by the All-Ittixad Business cartels all over Somalia and the inter-link between this groups even in the different regions/clan enclaves of the Somali Republic. The All-ittixad business Cartels groups all over Somalia are Wahabi-Salafist and have loose links with al-Shabaab ,have almost the total control of every business activity all over Somalia and have as a business methods criminal tactics which they have refined by living and working under a Stateless /failed -country and society.
The All-Ittixad groups have known of the Oil issue for a very long time and always had the plan to control those strategic resources of the Somali- Nation State. They have for a very long time recruited in their ranks people who used to work for the Somali State at Said Barre time and became well informed of all the Oil exploration sites and value.
For the first time the All-ittixad business cartels of Puntland and Mogadishu have collaborated with the so-called central government and convinced them that a sub-divided Somalia will not opposed by Ethiopia and in that way the exploitation of Oil in Puntald will be in their strategic interest.The President,the notorious speaker and PM have given the nod in an informal way and have been been bribed although the Speaker and the president are allied to this groups The implementation of the project was made possible by the good contacts of Al-Ittixad bussiness cartels of Puntland which convinced Mr. Atam the ringleader of Al-Shbaab of Puntland through his Clan elders that the extraction of Oil is in the overall interest of the Wahabi-Salafist groups of Somalia and in particular Portland.Secondly All-Ittixad business cartels have a huge amounts of Cash which came from the financing of The Pirates Operations for the Five years.We Somalis know that the youngsters which were doing the piracy were financed in their operation by this groups and the young men got only 50% of the overall ransom.The world has paid 170 million for the last five years and you divide by two.
With all this cash the All-Ittixad business cartels allied themselves with Mr. Faroole which they were also the group who finances his election in the first place. They bought the Clans/sub-clans Elders ,so- called politicians of the region and everybody which they would see will oppose their project.More to that they are part of the companies which are getting the contracts and sub-contracts.The President Farole and his sons,Mr. Cadde Musse and his young advisers in the project will be shareholders in the companies of this mammoth undertaking for the regional economy.Wait and see.
