It is a painful experience to watch our country degraded into oblivion by a fake clan power-sharing system, called 4.5

[Deeq A.]

To all intent and purposes, 4.5 formula gives equal quota to the four “major” clans, and a half-point to a cluster of “minority” clans in Somalia. However, according to a spokesperson for Arta Peace Conference in Djibouti in 2000, stated that in this formula “clan groups are supposed to give a sense of shared identity and ancestry to members, without discriminating others.

Source: Hiiraan Online