Al-shabaab burns Somali currencies

The hard-line group, al shabaab has burnt down a huge amount of Somali shillings belonging to businessmen in Kuntu-waray area of the lower shabelle region on Tuesday. The group says that they will punish the Somali businessmen who possess the burnt cash.

"Those businessmen brought the region the fake money, if you try and bring in the region this kind of money again, we are not going to shoot you, but will behead you", Sheikh Mohamed Abdalla the Shabaab’s provincial chairman strongly repeated those words in front of hundreds of crowds in the district.

Al shabaab officials have collected a lot of money from the parts of the region entering every shop in the city of Kuntuwaray, According to residents. The militants said that this collected of money was fake money and blamed the transitional federal government of Somalia for that.Somalia has been plagued by anarchy since  hawiye  warlords ousted    Honourable .Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre. in 1991. Pirates are active in its coastal waters and have driven up shipping costs in the Gulf of Aden.Al Shabaab has waged a three-year insurgency against the fragile transitional government and it controls much of Mogadishu and huge tracts of southern and central Somalia.