Edited sentence: * Abandoning Lasaanod at the secessionists’ mercy and thereby failing to maintain the territorial integrity of both Puntland and Somalia;.* Administration’s failure to protect the prisoners butchered in Garowe jail;.* And finally doing the unforgivable by handing over brotherly Ogaden workers to merciless enemy;.* Causing harm to the marine environment precisely fauna and flora by exporting priceless coral reef rocks to Arabian Gulf States;.* Standing idle while sea pricy flourished in the region to the detriment of its interests;.* Turning blind eye on and/or colluding with those who counterfeited huge amounts of Somali currency and triggered a wave of price hikes;.Having seen occurrences of mammoth scale including:.On one hand, shocking events have taken place in almost every province of the territory once controlled by the administration and Puntlanders watched in disbelief how the regime gave up the very fundamentals on which the people prided themselves, but on the other hand, they clung to hope and looked forward to that moment of re-assessment when Adde and his associates would reverse course or an election would unseat them.The people are now running out of patience and keep an eye on what change Feb 2009 election would bring about.since Adde came to power, hope and despair have become two faces of the same coin in Puntland and while people’s marathon wait for change endured, his administration aged and became ever-deteriorating one