By: Yusuf M Hasan
HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – The government has been asked to expedite availability of measures to avail Water to Badan district residents thence avoid a catastrophe.
According to MP Abdiqadir Jama Hamud of the Somaliland House of Representatives “Residents and livestock in Badan district of Sanaag region are facing a life and death as a result of acute water shortages”
MP Hamud who represents Badan district in parliament told Dawan media group that unless urgent measures are put in place addressing the acute water shortages in his constituency deaths untold both human and livestock will occur.
Badan district is currently the scene of a wait and see cat and mouse game between Somaliland authorities determined towards eliminating once and for all continuous machinations by the president of the Somalia administrative region of Puntland.
The claims on clan (Darood) basis on the eastern parts of Sanaag and Sool regions of Somaliland by president Abdiweli Gaas of Puntland have resulted in a massive build-up by the Somaliland armed forces with the intent of deterring a proposed visit by Puntland authorities in both Badan and Buhoodle districts.
With the revelations that area residents and their livestock, their main stay are in danger of losing all due to water shortages makes it urgent for the Somaliland authorities to act not only in Badan but in the entire eastern regions long left to its own devises of Sanaag and Sool.
The MP who warned opposition politicians stop accusing the government of misappropriating funds geared towards the construction of the Erigavo Burao road said that the visible activities of the Silanyo administration on the road shall be an negative implications for them, opposition parties, during elections slated for 2015.
