4.5
"The prolonged, two-year reconciliation conference held in Kenya and
the resulting interim administration, implemented under the dominant
tutelage of Ethiopia, are generally considered to have failed to live up
to the expectations of the Somali people. The state structure was built
on the foundation of a clan power segregation system known as 4.5
(four-point-five). This means the separation of the Somali people into
four clans that are equal and, as such, pure Somali, against an amalgamation
of various clans and communities that are unequal to the first
group and, hence, considered “impure” or less Somali. The lumping
together of all the latter communities is regarded as equivalent only to
a half of the share of a clan."
- Mohamed A. Eno and Omar A. Eno, Intellectualism amid Ethnocentrism: Mukhtar and the 4.5 Factor