Somalia: AK-47 rifle used to kill Hodan DC “disappears”
MOGADISHU, Somalia – The rifle used to execute the brutal homicide of Hodan District Commissioner Abdikahim Dhegajun can’t be traced, a court docket has been informed what might sabotage the investigation into the officer’s demise, which was amongst essentially the most dependable safety info.
The federal government had arrange a court docket investigating the ugly deaths that brought about anger over Somalia, questioning the nation’s capacity to cope with delicate safety points amid the continued election deaths in Somalia.
Lawyer Common Abdullahi Kamey, the lawyer common for Somalia’s armed forces, testified in court docket on Saturday, giving blow-by-blow info on what might assist and even stop investigation into the demise of the previous safety official.
In response to him, the AK-47 weapons utilized in a taking pictures in Mogadishu that killed Hodon DC Abdikahim Dhegajun in January 2021, whereas quoting a forensic report, stated to stop cops behind the homicide from prosecution.
This, he famous, will make it tough to arrest the officer (s) behind the ugly homicide and argue that they’ve not discovered the gun. It isn’t clear the place the gun disappeared to and who deliberate the rifle’s disappearance.
Initially, the federal government had admitted that the killers of the previous officer have been members of the safety forces. The motive for the assassination, nonetheless, was not instantly established, however such circumstances are widespread within the war-torn nation.
Somalia’s safety forces have confronted quite a lot of difficulties for a few years because the ouster of former navy ruler Siad Barres. Along with the Al-Shabaab menace, authorities officers are sometimes focused at one another over inside rivalry.
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