Galmudug President’s Bodyguard assault a Somali Female journalist for her work

[Deeq A.]

By Ahmed Abdi

 

Galkayo — A Somali Female journalist says three members of a Somali President’s Bodyguards has attacked her amid reporting on corruption and politics.

 

Bahjo Abdullahi Mohamed, One of the women reporters of Voice of Peace, a Galkayo-based radio station says Galmudug President Ahmed Dualle Geelle Haaf’s bodyguards tortured and sexually assaulted her during Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo’s visit to Galkayo.

 

In a post on her Facebook account on Tuesday, the journalist said that she is suffering both physically and psychologically after the incident. The motive for the attacking was not immediately clear.

 

“A driver in a car masqueraded as my colleagues offered me a lift, only to fall into the hands of gangs,” said  Mrs. Mohamed in a post that had been shared over 3,820 times and liked over 14,000 times.

 

When she got into the car, she saw three strange men wearing Somali National Army’s uniform who locked the car’s tinted windows to stop her escaping from them before taking her to house in Northern Galmudug.Later the men turned to be guards of President Haaf.

 

Attacking journalists in revenge after covering corruption and politics has been common in Somalia but a sexual assault against Somali women journalists is a new thing.

 

[Yunis]

Savages, Somalia is got along way to go. Such is the results of Maamuul Gobeleed 'Presidents' with their clan militia rampaging through the weakest among the society with impunity. 

[maakhiri1]

very sad, these savages must be shamed.

[Holac]

Sad story. As usual, the culprits will never be caught.

[Old_Observer]

Its is savage and cowardly against a woman, but if some of us think its a Somali thing. Its not only common in the west to intimidate, kill and maime female journalists, those who live in America will remember Trump campaign manager resigning for the same reason. The journalist woman in Malta shreded to pieces recently comes to mind.

 

Women journalists are assumed to be more dangerous at investigating and more influencial at diseminating, even if few of them.