MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s authorities has issued a directive to safety officers at Mogadishu airport, prohibiting a number of opposition members of parliament from departing the capital, amid mounting political tensions throughout the nation, Caasimada On-line information web site reported.
Among the many MPs barred from boarding flights at Mogadishu airport is Hassan Firinbi, who was captured in a video final week inciting dysfunction throughout a live-streamed parliamentary session. The footage exhibits Firinbi bodily assaulting a police officer, who, alongside together with his colleagues, was trying to safe the Speaker’s space from the MPs fueling the disturbance.
Former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, talking at a press convention in Mogadishu on Saturday, reaffirmed the journey ban imposed on a number of MPs, together with Hassan Firinbi, on the airport. Nevertheless, the federal authorities and its safety businesses have but to difficulty an official assertion concerning the matter.
“A journey ban has been imposed on MP Hassan Yare and several other different MPs at Mogadishu airport,” ex-president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed stated. “We met with the MP, and he advised us that the video of the altercation [circulated on social media] was edited.”
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