MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Somalia’s top leaders have once again exchanged punches over the successor of the immediate former chief of the country’s national intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) barely two days after president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo nullified suspension of spy agency boss Fahad Yassin.
A shake-up in his administration through a statement released by his Directorate of Communications and posted on Villa Somalia’s official social media handles, President Farmajo announced that he appointed Yassin, who had been leading NISA since late 2019 as his new National Security Adviser.
Col. Yasin Abdullahi Mohamud – the current head of the Benadir Regional Intelligence Service – would be replacing Yasin to the lead the agency, according to Villa Somalia.
The president has calls for a National Security Council meeting to be held late next week in order Yassin to present before the Security Council meeting the report of the investigation into the case of Tahlil.
Hour later, Roble welcomed Farmajo’s acceptance of Yassin’s dismissal but rejected the nominee appointed by the president, ordering the new spy chief, Brig. Gen Bashir Mohamed Jama (Gobe) to “immediately start his duty.”
“Somali Prime minister, Mohamed Hussein Roble welcome the president’s acceptance of the dismissal of former director of NISA, Fahad Yasin,” the statement reads. “The prime minister also instructs interim director general of NISA, brigadier general Bashir Mohamed Jama to immediately start his duty.”
Last Sunday, Yassin urged President Mohamed Farmaajo to convene a National Security Council (NSC) meeting so that he can divulge information surrounding the murder of a female spy agent, Ikran Tahlil.
“The National Security and Intelligence Service has made a formal request to the President of the Federal Government of Somalia to allow us to convene a meeting of the National Security Council, as chairman of the Security Council. National, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces,” the letter read in part.
Sunday’s remarks of Yassin came on the heels of a directive by PM Roble, ordering NISA to explain the death of female spy agent, Ms. Tahlil.
Ms. Tahlil was abducted June 26 near her home in Mogadishu’s Abdulaziz district, which is close to the agency’s headquarters.
Her disappearance raised a storm with her family constantly asking the government to explain her disappearance or produce her. Politicians also picked up the issue and made it a campaign subject.
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