Mogadishu (Halbeeg News) – The trial of officials of Adan Adde International Airport over abuse of office among other offences will start today at Benadir Court in Mogadishu.
The officials who were charged this year include Abdullahi Mohamud Osoble, Director of Immigration at the Department of Immigration and Naturalisation, Adan Mohamed Abdi, director of visa issuance in the Immigration and Naturalisation.
Others are Sabir Hassan Abdinoor, the head of Visa Extension and Verification in the Foreign Division of the Immigration and Naturalisation and Omar Moallin Nur, Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs at Immigration and Naturalisation Department,
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has earlier said that his government will never accept the corruption.
Somalia alongside South Sudan are this year declared most corrupt countries in the world by Transparency International (TI).
Transparency International ranked Somalia at the bottom of its index for 13 years straight – from 2007 to 2020 – before briefly being overtaken by Syria and Sudan for the dubious distinction in 2021. The index has been published annually by the non-governmental organization since 1995.
“Somalia is back at the very bottom of the CPI, both regionally and globally. The country has been mired in a circle of violence and instability for over three decades, with practically no means available to curb rampant corruption.”
Transparency International highlighted that President Mohamud’s unilateral decision to dissolve two anti-corruption bodies late last year indicates Somali officials are ignoring the problem.
In October 2022, the recently elected president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud dissolved two key anti-corruption bodies – the Judicial Service Commission and the Anti-Corruption Commission – via decree. Mohamud has been accused of corruption and abuse of power in the past. Meanwhile, economic and humanitarian conditions for Somalians are steadily deteriorating.
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