It became Mareexaan in the 2000s@Shaolin23 think of Kismayo as a Harti village. It is our deegaan and it just so happened that it became the largest city in Juboyinka. Marehan started to live in Kismayo in the 50s and in big numbers in the 70s. But it never was a Marehan city. It has always been a shared city. Before it was shared between MZ and Harti, and now it shared by everyone who lives in Jubaland. No one can ever have an exclusive claim to Kismayo and no one's claims can supersede the claim of others.
Any clan based claim to Kismayo will take us back to the era when the city changed hands every couple of months.
Snippets from the book "The Darod Invasion"