FARMAAJO’S MONEY MAN TURNS TO SELLING SNAKE OIL
Photo credit: Halqaran.com Here he goes again, again. Somalia ’ s finance guru doing what he does best: mixing imagination, fiction, and deception to finance a gigantic fraud . For four years he toured the world, paid homage to the headquarters of the World Bank, IMF, and associated lender clubs. For four years, he attended myriad multilateral and bilateral meetings and held endless press conferences and media briefings. For four years the good doctor was engaged in a charm mission that painted the image of a country under a new management, led by a dynamic enlightened leadership, and in the trusted hands of a competent, effective, and clean government. He tweeted, wrote and talked about a country with great economic prospects firmly on the path to a smooth and full recovery and uncontaminated by corruption. Obviously, this was an exaggerated claim aimed at impressing and courting the international community in the hope that it would keep propping up the colossal fiction he and Villa S