Security is multi-layered approach not a single layered approach as PL and Somalia is generally taking. They rely on the people to help them as you seen that's basically all they rely on. Security has to be multi-layered. You need to use checkpoints for example for scanning capabilities to eliminate external threats from entering the region by using technology for example. You need a highly equipped intelligence service running around among the people targetting all the potential areas where weapons, explosive devices are bought or made and placing a intelligence officer there watching for suspicious activities or purchases, monitoring the financial hawalas for suspicious transfers of funds, monitoring mosques, schools, tea-shops for suspicious behaviors. On top of all that then you also set up hotlines for people to report any suspicious behaviors. Notice it's about layer after layer. Security is about closing holes.
I wish we get a new age thinker to run PL and no more of these soviet era throwbacks. We need someone who can figure out what this will cost and begin figuring out a funding approach either through our donor partners, international friends, or local fundraising or a mix of both!!! We really need the dhalinyaro generation to run puntland now, no more oldies or throwbacks from yesteryear. We are fighting an enemy today that is mainly dhalinyaro, to place an old person into that office, the dhalinyaro will be 10 times ahead of him. We must respond in 2019 and elect an osman maxamud that is 'dhalinyaro'.