Somalia: Four Somali government officials kidnapped

Somalia: Four Somali government officials kidnapped
Aweys Osman Yusuf


Mogadishu 27, May.07 ( Sh.M.Network) Four Somali government officials based in Hamar Jajab district, south of the capital, have been abducted by unknown gunmen overnight, according to relatives.

Ahmed Sheik Mohamoud, the district commissioner, revealed to the press on Sunday that the four officials in the division were forcibly taken with gun point by unknown armed men in a small car with no plate number.

“These men were among the local administrators assigned for the district by the federal government and until now we did not hear from their captors, neither do we know why they have been kidnapped,” he said.

He stressed the report has been submitted to the mayor, Mohammed Dheere, who promised restoring peace and security in the gun-infested city, Mogadishu.

This is the first time that unidentified gun men took government officials hostage No group has yet claimed responsibility for the seizure of these officials.

Meanwhile Ethiopia reopens its embassy in the Somali capital Mogadishu for the first time in 16 years. Ethiopian foreign minister, Seum Mesfin, erected the Ethiopian flag inside the newly opened embassy near the presidential palace (Villa Somalia) at the center of the capital.