By Staff Reporter
MOGADISHU- Acting director of Somalia National intelligence agency (NISA) Yasin Farey has been awarded a certificate of participation hours after registering his candidacy for lower house seat with the Somalia’s electoral commission.
Galmudug State Indirect Elections Team (SIET) awarded the certificate to Farey and six other candidates participating in the Lower House elections.
This comes barely a day after a military tribunal exonerated him and other officials at the National Intelligence Security and Agency (NISA) of any links to the killing of Ikran Tahlil.
Ikran Tahlil Farah, a female spy agent went missing on June 26th and the Somalia intelligence agency later issued a statement after outcry from the family members and the public alluding that she was kidnapped by Al-Shabaab.
The Al- Qaeda affiliate group Al- Shabaab downplayed any involvement to the missing female intelligence officer and rubbished reports of her abduction and execution and instead heaped blame on top officials working for the Somalia National Intelligence agency of being behind her assassination.
However, Somalia government did not produce her body or adduced any evidence to the family that she was actually killed.
Unconfirmed reports intimate that president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo wants his cronies to join politics so as to embolden his efforts to defending his seat in upcoming presidential elections.
Yassin Farey was appointed to the position of the head of National Intelligence following fruitful discussion between president Farmajo and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble held at Villa Somalia on 21st October.
Critical issues that precipitated their dispute was the case of the allegedly slain female intelligence officer IKran Tahlil Farah and the dismissal of Fahad Yassin as the boss of the National Intelligence agency.
On Sunday, the Attorney General of Somalia Armed forces Gen. Abdullahi Bulle Kameey released a report on the abduction and killing of Ikran Tahlil that exonerated the National Intelligence Security Agency (NISA) from any involvement in the kidnapping and subsequent execution of the female intelligence officer.
Fahad Yassin who is a powerful individual and bureaucratic at Villa Somalia was named as the National security advisor of president Farmajo with grapevine within the circles of the presidential palace saying that he will also run for a political office.
Yassin Farey will be contending for HOP67 in Galmudug State which has become under intense battle between heavyweight with reports of manipulation in the election results for the seat also coming forth.
However, Frontier Online cannot independently verify if Yassin Farey resigned from his current position as NISA director as enshrined in the established electoral laws of Somalia.
Somalia’s parliamentary elections for the Lower House has already began with
three incumbent members of parliament having been re-elected in the ongoing elections for Somaliland caucus.
The clan elders and civil society representatives are expected to pick delegates who will in turn elect the MPs for lower house.
The international community has been calling on Somalia government to expedite the delayed elections which has been facing myriad challenges including occasional postponement that has adversely affected presidential elections that was scheduled for November this year but is seemingly staring at another delay.
