MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Somali prime minister, Mohamed Hussein Roble has formed two federal and state-level electoral security teams ahead of the country’s parliamentary and presidential elections which are slated for August this year.
In Security Plan developed by the Office of the Prime Minister, Roble drew the members mainly from the Somali Police Force and African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom).
The teams will be in charge of the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.
The first team which is National Elections Security Committee (NESC) will be headed by prime minister Roble.
The NESC will be tasked with the security of Presidential elections which will happen in Mogadishu but also work closely with the state-level security committees.
Elections for the Banaadiri community and Somaliland both of which will happen in Mogadishu will be secured by the Banaadir Regional Electoral Security Working Group.
A committee of Federal Member State police commanders will lead the State Election Security Working Committee (SEWC).
SEWC will have members from civil society organisations, the state police force, the Darawish paramilitary unit and the Somali National Army head among others.
Somalia was expected to hold its elections in early this year but delayed it after the political stakeholders failed to hold reached agreement on the electoral process.
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