Following the disclosure of the rampant corruption at the Mogadishu port by the local media, it has now discovered that the tainted adminstration gets 15 percent of revenue from the port, money that is it unable to account for in providing of essential services to residents of the rubble-scene capital.

Sunatimes contacted the mayor of Mogadishu, Mahmud Ahmad alias Tarzan, who acknowledged that his does receive 15 percent of the income generated from Mogadishu as parts of an agreement his administration entered with the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia [TFG] when he took over office.

The TFG controls six of the sixteen districts of Mogadishu, however, it does not seem to have done much to address the needs of the residents in these areas in terms of the reconstruction of roads, providing of humanitarian aid to displaced people in the areas controlled by the government or even general repair work. The mayor has on several occasions reiterated that his administration has undertaken a lot of reconstruction in various residential areas in the capital, but there is no physical progress in these areas. It is still unclear how they spends the large sums of money it receives from the port.