There are immigration officials in Somalia? Are there people who actually want to go live there despite the jihad-wrought devastation, or is the job of these officials solely to help people get out?
In any case, note that Osman Hussein Haji Farey was murdered outside a mosque by a jihad group affiliated with al-Qaeda. The vast majority of peaceful Muslims did not intervene to explain to the jihadis how they were misunderstanding the Religion of Peace.
And now Puntland officials should “embrace dialogue”? Why is the entire world so cowed and supine in the face of the jihad threat?
“Somalia: Al-Shabaab assassinates an official outside mosque in Puntland,” Garowe Online, April 12, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
GALKAYO, Puntland – Al-Shabaab militants eliminated a senior immigration official in Galkayo on Friday evening, authorities said, in the latest raid within the fairly safe Puntland state in Somalia.
Osman Hussein Haji Farey, met his death outside a mosque in the northeastern semi-autonomous state, in an attack that could further compel authorities to go back to the drawing board on matters security.
An unknown number of gunmen ambushed the official before fleeing from the scene. The attackers were armed with pistols and shot at him, killing him instantly, witnesses said, although it was not immediately clear why he was targeted.
The officer was working at the Galkayo airstrip, which is among top income-generating sites within Puntland. Police arrived at the scene long after the militants had fled the scene, reports indicate….
In a statement issued through affiliate media, Al-Shabaab confirmed the attack saying “our fighters killed a senior immigration official in Galkayo town in a successful operation”.
Further, the militants claimed that another sophisticated operation within Mudug left “several dead”. The group could not, however, give proof to the alleged attack in Central Somalia.
Also, the Al-Qaida linked group said it was responsible for last week’s attack at Galdadud and Bosaaso, where they targeted a convoy of Puntland Security Forces, who are credited for flushing the militants out of the state….
Puntland is one of the safest places within Somalia, a country that is embroiled in endless inter-clan conflicts and terrorism threats, with Al-Shabaab being declared “danger” to East Africa by the US State Department.
Although the group occasionally attacks the region, it was flushed along with IS-Somalia, another terror group that had temporarily established a territory within Puntland. The two groups also started fighting against each other.
Said Deni, the Puntland President, recently asked the federal government of Somalia to “embrace” dialogue as the most appropriate approach towards promoting unity and in the fight against Al-Shabaab….