Mog's Largest Market Shut down!!!

[rudy-Diiriye]

All businesses in Mogadishu main Bakara market were closed as heavily armed interim government soldiers were deployed in every alley of the market shortly after a bomb explosion targeting on the soldiers in the area.

 

Soldiers in watchful condition are roaming inside the closed market.

 

All the business owners kept indoors in their shops fearing to be shot by the vigilant troops wandering before their doors.

 

Here in Bakara, it is becoming harder for the people to run their businesses because constant search operations.

 

“My business was totally disturbed by the government soldiers who are claiming to do search operations but the real story is that they are going to loot one’s property and that is disgrace to the current government,” said Abdiaziz Ahmed, a shop seller in Bakara market. Adding angrily “What kind of weapon is the government searching, here is a business place,”

 

Bakara market, the biggest hub in southern Somalia and its residential villages are now in day and night curfew. “I think the government extended the time of the curfew because it became more difficult to go out at day time,” said one local resident.

 

Meanwhile, Mogadishu’s mayor Mohamed Omar Habeb ‘Mohamed Dhere’ who had recently escaped a bomb attack, said the search operations will continue till everybody is able to walk freely and fearless in the capital.

 

The Ethiopian backed interim government is determined to restore law and order in the gun-infested city before the national reconciliation conference which is due to take place on July 15.