Somalia: Family files lawsuit against Ex-NISA boss, Fahad over murder

by: Staff Reporter | 09 September 2021 16:11

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Somalia: Family files lawsuit against Ex-NISA boss, Fahad over murder

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) - The family of a female intelligence agent reportedly abducted and killed sued number of top officials of Somalia's national intelligence and security agency (NISA).

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MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) - The family of a female intelligence agent reportedly abducted and killed sued number of top officials of Somalia's national intelligence and security agency (NISA).

Ikran Tahlil Farah who head of NISA’s cyber security department was reportedly kidnapped in June from her house near the headquarters of the agency in Somali capital.

Last Thursday, NISA announced that the female agent was kidnapped and killed by the militant group Al-Shabaab, a claim rejected by group and the mother of Ikran, Qali Mohamud Guhad

Dismissal by al-Shabaab militants and subsequent dispersal and harassment of the demonstrators and journalists led to public anger with some politicians including the Council Presidential Candidates (CPC) calling for the sacking of NISA chief, Fahad Yasin and formation of an independent, international commission to take up the matter.

Through their lawyer, Dahir Mohamed Ali, the mother of Ikran, Qali Guhad said she filed charges against former head of NISA, Fahad Yasin, former deputy director Abdullahi Kulane, Abdikani Wadna-qabad and Yasin Faray.

According to the filings by Ali, Guhad alleges that Yasin called Ikran a couple of times including asking her to stay in the country and wait for a job appointment, perhaps a promotion since she was already working in the agency.

"She was asked to wait for a call for the job and when she finally got the call, she disappeared,” Guhad says.

The lawyer alleges that Kulane had threatened Ikran while Yasin Farey, who then head of Benadir regional intelligence received the deceased after she was picked from her home Abdikani Wadna-qabad.