Disciplinary army officers appointed in Somalia

[Jacaylbaro]

Somalia’s central army command has appointed disciplinary army officers on Sunday for Banadir (Mogadishu), Middle and Lower Shabelle provinces, southern Somalia.

 

Gen. Abdulahi Moalim Ali, the army commander, has made the nominations in a decree issued from his office.

 

Moalim said the army will be engaged in prison works. “The Somali disciplinary army is ready to play positive positions in securing the peace in the country”, he told reporters.

 

He has indicated that the army would also be visible in the streets of the capital during the three-month state of emergency.

 

This is the first time that disciplinary army was nominated for prison guarding. Moalim pointed out that prisons that have not been used in the past 16 years of anarchy and civil wars were repaired.

 

The news comes as armed militias in southern Somalia set up illegal roadblocks, taking extortion money from people, buses and trucks traveling the roads linking the capital Mogadishu to southern provinces of the country.

 

A committee for security operations and restoration of peace in Mogadishu has suggested today to the transitional government that army police should be set up for the districts in the capital to secure the peace of the Mogadishu streets where unknown armed assailants have ambushed government and Ethiopian military barracks in the past.

[General Duke]

DFKMG oo Magacowday Taliyayaasha Ciidamada Asluubta ee Banadir, Sh/dhexe iyo Sh/hoose

 

 

 

Last Updated::2007-01-21 13:44:19

 

Muqdisho:- Taliyaha Ciidamada Asluubta ee Dowlada Federaalka ayaa maanta magacaabay Taliyayaasha Asluubta ee gobalada Banadir, Sh/dhexe iyo Sh/hoose.

 

Gen. Cabdullaahi Maclain Cali ayaa maanta magacaabay taliyeyaasha iyo ku xigeenadooda gobolada Banaadir, Sh/dhexe iyo Sh/Hoose.

 

Taliyaha ayaa sidoo kale wareegtadiisa ku magacaabay Taliyayaasha Xabsiyada kala ah:

 

1. Laanta Buuro

2. Beeraha Afgooye iyo

3. Xabsiga dhexe ee magaalada caasimada ee Muqdisho.

 

Taliyaha ayaa sheegay in magacaabidan ay qeyb ka tahay xasilinta gobaladaasi iyo dib usoo celinta waaxyadii kala gedisanaa ee ciidamada Asluubta.

 

Dhinaca kale waxaa weli socda dadaal la doonayo in lagu dhameystiro magacaabida Taliyayaasha saldhiyada magaalada Muqdisho oo hada qeyb kamid ah shaqadooda ay bilaabeen.

 

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[Captain Xalane]

A very progressive act indeed.Good jobb.

[Dhabat-Amaanreer]

There has been a lot of appointing in the Banadir region lately, yet the government cannot even protect the surroundings of Villa Somalia. Would it not be a better idea to bring stability and get a hold of Bandir region first before all these appointees? Or, are we just taking the opportunity granted by the martial law that is to continue for three more months and appoint whomever we desire, is that the main interest of sir president?

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

There has been a lot of appointing in the Banadir region lately, yet the government cannot even protect the surroundings of Villa Somalia

Guray, I do see government securing the country with these "Appiontments". The government must do a lot of things and these are some of them, most important of them.

[Dhabat-Amaanreer]

Well...thanks for trying to answer my question Naxar

[General Duke]

^^^A valid question, but filling the vacume is the most important aspect to securing the country. Aattacks are to be expected for a while. However last week the PM and some cabinet ministers drove from Baidoa to Mogadishu without an incident, the fact that the port and airport of Mogadishu are functioning, that most of the police stations are operating and that 150+ technicals, weapons of various calibre and over 1000 millitia have been turned over to the government.

[RedSea]

What a dellusional lot, what government?

 

 

They are lucky if they don't turn on themselves, bunch of warlords.

 

GD, remember,the weapons were from your own members of the parliament.

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

serously red sea, I am concerned for your mental health. We get it, you do not see the government.

[General Duke]

Red Sea, the weapons came from those left by the clan courts and given to the clans who tunred it over to their former strongmen. Thus Abu Cutaibe's and the Dayniile court guns were handed over to Qaynyare who tunred it over to the TFG. This happened with every group.

 

It will be the turn of the "business" groups next and after that the general public.

 

You do sound desperate though.

[Taako Man]

160 teknikos

literally millions of accompanying bullets and ammunition

 

1000's of militia

 

 

WHAT MORE DO PEOPLE WANT?

[Dhabat-Amaanreer]

General lets hope adeer makes wise desicions when appointing people.

 

Tan kale, why do you guys argue with the likes of Mujahid SNM, Castro and co. who see a functioning Somali government as a threat to there petty Somaliland, dadkaan ICUga ka hor bey ku jireen meshaan daqankooda iyo dhabeycadodaneh waan naqana manaho mid Somalinimo iyo diinimo ah marka ha isku lugoynina.

[Taako Man]

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Police will this week begin patrols of Mogadishu for the first time in years after an upsurge in violence since the ouster of Islamist hardliners from the Somali capital.

 

 

A senior Mogadishu police commander said the patrols would begin on Tuesday , while government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari said the transitional regime was introducing further measures to secure the war-torn city.

 

"From Tuesday the police force of Somalia will patrol all over Mogadishu and no area will be left out," said the police commander who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity Sunday.

 

The Islamists had managed to bring some semblance of order to Mogadishu in the six months that they controlled the capital, following 16 years of fighting between rival warlords.

 

However their flight from the capital on December 28 following military intervention by Ethiopian forces alongside troops from the transitional government -- previously based in a provincial backwater -- has led to a new spike in violence.

 

While the government has reached a disarmament deal with the warlords, attacks on the presidential palace and on a convoy of Ethiopian troops over the weekend underlined the precarious security situation.

 

Dinari said that securing Mogadishu was key if Somalia as a whole was to be stabilised after a seemingly endless cycle of violence.

 

Police were last on regular patrol in the city in 1991 before the demise of the dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Warlords' militias have since largely controlled the streets, often setting up their own roadblocks and collecting money from residents.

 

"The government is taking all the necessary measures to deploy the police. There is a necessity to make Mogadishu a peaceful place. It is a mirror that reflects the true picture of Somalia," Dinari told AFP.

 

"We are urging the people of Mogadishu to fully cooperate with the police in order to fulfil their national duties," the police commander said.

 

"We are urguing the citizens to provide police with information about the activities of unlawful people."

 

The African Union also authorised the deployment last week of a 7,600-strong stabilisation force for Somalia.

 

However only Uganda has thus far publicly pledged troops to take part in a mission that Eritrea has warned could turn into a quagmire.