Eviction of IDPs from publicland with no prior notice nor support planAnd how did the president answer the outrage? “The Somali mother,” he told a gathering, “shouldn’t care whether I own a high-rise building or a small one; that’s not her business.” In my years in Somali public service I watched the revenue points of the state quietly become a family estate. Every one of those is a point where money enters the Somali state, or fails to. The Somali state cannot do what a Somali teenager with a phone and a hawala account does before breakfast.