He can take lascanood in 2 days but there will be loads of blood shed and he doesn’t want to cause immense international community consequences. Like I said, this isn’t the 90s anymore, everything is noted and recorded. He is doing a different strategy.
He cant take Lascanood, unless he is willing to send his men on a suicide mission and rush the city, they have to enter between 12 am and 5 am with atleast 25 technical " 6 men on each truck, around 150 men". They will lose some guys in the start but by sunrise they can capture the city, especially if they attack under the cover of Mortars.
If that happens then the people of Lascanood can claim the something SL claims and reasons they want to separate. " Syad barre attacked us and killed us so we want our own Country"