It is like packs of shuffled cards dealt out linearly, suit by suit, or in this case clan by clan. Somali society cannot be turned 90 degrees to the horizontal like multilayered population structures elsewhere in the world. The latter can readily throw up democratically-elected leaders because wealth, education and talent lie at the top of the pile. Not so with the Somali social structure. The vertical Somali society has to be accommodated in any constitutional tinkering.
Horizontal strands do exist when marriages take place between clans.
That helps with conflict resolution. One of many other problems with the document, as with most foreign-inspired, constitutional proposals, as far as Somalis are concerned, is that a little learning is dangerous. A simplistic view of the Somali social structure promotes overconfident conclusions, such as the notion that 'the tribe' is an unnecessary hindrance to the establishment of westernized forms of democratic government. Foreigners would be taken in by it because it fits their own cultural experience. This, it was genuinely held by the leadership, would be a preferred option by the public to traditional services such as security, human rights, succession, democracy, and peace with justice.