[5] Mohamed later moved to the capital Mogadishu for his secondary school education in Banadir Secondary School in Mogadishu, where he did exceptionally well, so exemplarily that he was among the top 5 best students nationally in Somalia, This qualified him to a scholarship to study in Poland, He completed his undergraduate & postgraduate education at Warsaw Polytechnical University, Faculty of Geodesy in Warsaw from 1973 to 1979 and left for home to give back to Somalia.
[4] Mohamed Omar Ibrahim Salihi upon his return to Somalia undertook the Bay Project which modernized Baidoa into a major Somali city with modern architecture and social amenities, This was under a developmental project by the USAID, Moving on from tenuous work to another he would later find himself working for the Directive of Surveys and Maps at the Ministry of Defense where he served as a soldier and simultaneously attained the rank of colonel in the Somali National Army due his added advantage of skilled higher educational level, The cartographic maps he helped develop in the Ministry would later help clear a lot of border issues and provincial lines and can still be found at the Somali Foreign Affairs Ministry.
[5] Between 1983 and 1987 Engineer Saalihi would aid in surveying of lands and building of landmarks like The National Museum, Ministry of Defense owned farms and construction of water canals, He was also the Director General in the Irrigation Directive of Lower Shabelle from 1987 to 1990, The Military Government also appointed him to a special committee to demarcate the invisible and unofficial “borderline” between Somali and Ethiopia, He later helped facilitate humanitarian works under UNSOM and UNOPS in Gedo province during the tough period following the destructive civil war, Under the tedious Transitional National Government of president Abdiqassim he was deputy Minister for Agriculture[6][5] He later went to Dar Es Salam, Tanzania to study remote sensing and satellite photos to gather sensory data.
He gave the much needed technical knowledge and nuances to the Somali delegation due to his years in the maritime field; his expert advice was instrumental to the case from the start since some of them had no idea where to begin.
Engineer Salihi accompanied the Somali delegation in March 2021 headed by the deputy Prime Minister Mahdi Gullaid and said the following powerful prayer; “May Allah keep me alive to witness the court’s decision on the maritime case I put so much into it” sadly it wasn't to be.