Somaliland: Four Councillors Arrested In Gabiley & BBC Somali Fake Interview
Four members of the Gabiley local council have been detained for plotting
to
remove the Mayor of the town, Mohamed Amin Omar, from his post.
In
a bizarre twist to the tale, the discredited and anti-Somaliland, BBC
Somali Service, conducted an interview with an impostor pretending to be
the town's mayor. The Service has since admitted to his incompetence
and issued an apology to the mayor of Gabiley.
The four detained councillors are , Burale Mawlid Abdi, Hassan Mohamed Dhegjar, Mahdi Mohamed Hashi Jiijaa, and Id Hassan Abdi.
The
councillors accused the mayor of rampant corruption and cronyism. They
were arrested by local Police officers acting on orders from the central
government and are currently being held in Hargeisa.
The
terms of all the directly elected local councils in Somaliland are set
to expire and the prospective parliamentary and local elections
scheduled for December, 2019, if held, will see new councillors and
mayors elected.
There
is also a new legislation enacted by equally the moribund and severely
overdue Somaliland House of Representatives, which gives more power to
the Council Secretaries to hold accountable their respective councils.
This
was always the intended purpose, but, the Council Secretaries instead
representing the central government became part of the local council
politics.
Ali Mohamed Abokor
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