Somali PM sacks security chiefs following presidential place attack

A step to good direction: Somali PM fired security chiefs. Both the police and intel chiefs were president Hassan's cronies

Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed

Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed today sacked Somali Police Force Commissioner Abdihakim Dahir Saaid and National Security Agency chief, Gaas Bashir Mohamed Jama following Tuesday night’s attack on Somalia’s presidential compound in Mogadishu.

Speaking at a press conference in Mogadishu, Somalia’s Information Minister, Mustaf Sheikh Ali Dhuhulow said the prime minister named Mohamed Sheikh Hassan Ismail as the new Police Force Commissioner and Mohamed Abdullahi Hamud as Acting National Security Agency chief.

Dhuholow further stated that the Somali premier ordered Banadir regional police chief as well as the region’s head of security to directly report to the Banadir Governor, General Hassan Mohamed Hussein Mungab.

He added the prime minister urged the new security chiefs to carry out their duties efficiently and professionally saying the government will closely monitor the progress in the country particularly in the capital, Mogadishu.

security breach: update

Villa Somalia Attack by Al-Shabaab was facilitated by an employee of a telecom company contracted by the Govt of Somalia.

The man was a driver and a son to an Imam serving at the presidential palace.6 Al-Shabaab terrorists were killed by AMISOM commandos who preempted the attack.The attackers used the telecom van to bypass security checkpoints claiming they were a ministers entourage.

all of them are donkey wing aka abgaal sup-clan .from hawiye clan .

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