Somalia: TFG apologizes to former president
Tue. June 12, 2007 03:28 pm.- By Mohamed Abdi Farah. - Send this news article
(SomaliNet) The Somali transitional federal government has Tuesday apologized over the act in which the security forces recently entered the residence of former transitional national government Abdiqasim Salad Hassan in Mogadishu, Somalia capital.
According to the government spokesman Abdi Haji Gobdon, Somali interim president Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed, his premier Ali Gedi and officials from the cabinet and the security today visited the house of former TNG president to say sorry about the action which the TFG’s soldiers confiscated weapons and cars from his house.
“The top officials in the TFG, the president and the prime minister expressed their deep sorrow over the raid by the security forces to Salad’s house and described it as accidental and not intended,” said Gobdon.
President Yusuf ordered to guarantee the security of the former TNG president and his house, spokesman said.
During the visit by the government officials to the residence of former president in south of the capital near KM4 junction, security was tightened as hundreds of Ethiopian troops together with the Somali police were forces deployed all roads to the house.
On Monday, Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, former president of the Djibouti formed government issued a press release condemning the raid in which the current government soldiers stormed his residence as humiliation.
