Somali Intelligence Chief’s Firing Could Be Great News For Horn Of Africa
On June 26, 2021, assailants kidnapped 24-year-old Ikran Tahlil Farah, a cyber-expert in Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), near her home in Mogadishu. Her captors tortured and murdered her. Intelligence chief Fahad Yasin blamed Al-Shabaab terrorists for the murder, but Ikran’s family accused Yasin and his inner circle.
Most Somalis believed Ikran’s family. Somali analysts noted that Ikran’s murder fit a pattern of NISA murdering its own employees to cover up the agency’s crimes and those of Mohamed Farmaajo, the Somali president who took Somalia to the brink by seeking to extend his term illegally. Al Shabaab, meanwhile, which often claims credit for killing Somali security officials, explicitly denied any involvement in the Ikran case.
Somalis suggest the motive for Ikran’s murder was her knowledge of Farmaajo’s illegal transfer of Somali recruits for training in Eritrea from where Eritrean dictator Isaias Afwerki deployed them into Tigray in support of his and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s genocidal campaign against the province. The circumstances of the missing Somalis remains a lightning rod in Somali society; many Somali parents have received no word about their sons for more than a year. The belief that Yasin murdered Ikran to cover up the case caused anger to boil over. Efforts by security forces loyal to the intelligence chief to silence journalists investigating the case simply threw fuel on the fire.
Last night, Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble called on Yasin to provide him with a report within two days outlining NISA’s knowledge of the affair. Yasin responded by demanding that Farmaajo convene and chair a national security council meeting to address the crisis. This move not only showed Yasin’s contempt for the prime minister since it would, in effect, cut him out of the process but also disdain for the entire matter since Somalia’s national security council ceased to exist three years ago. Roble responded by dismissing Yasin.
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Re: A Somali female intelligence agent who knew about Somali military trainees in Eritrea & died in Tigray War is murder
Ugum Sarcastic, whatever makes your day and whatever floats your boat. Agame, how many Somali recruits are you speaking of ? As if Ethiopia and Eritrea do not have enough army to burry your Duqet Rag Tag militia you are hinting they went on a limb to bring the somalis to help the fight. Wey Nay Agame Neger !!! Just for the sake of argument, they joined the fight and your cursed land tenkebalelay Zer is done..... So what are you bi'tching about? do something. And by the way 4 weeks, just 4 weeks your Junta will be no more mark my word qomal.