Marka (RBC) A Somali traditional elder who took part in the adoption of Somalia’s new federal constitution and selection of the federal parliament last year was assassinated in Marka town on Thursday evening, RBC Radio reports.
Mohamud Mohamed Hussein [better known as Sablaale] was clan elder for one of the the Somali sub-clan living in Lower Shabelle region where he has got his common nickname as “Sablaale”.
According to eyewitnesses, Unidentified gunmen armed with pistols have shot the elder on the head shortly after the evening prayer near his home at the the coastal town of Marka where he has been living with his family. The elder has later died in the hospital from serious bullet wounds.
The assassins who were not known by anybody in the town have fled from the crime scene. But local police said that they were searching for them.
Family members told Raxanreeb Online that Late elder Sablaale has received several times death threats from unidentified people.
The Al Shabab militant group earlier vowed that they will eliminate any elder who has participated the new constitution making process and any one who talks about government related issues.
Late Elder Mohamud Mohamed Hussein “Sablaale” has left more than ten children and becomes the fifth elder who helped selection of last year’s constituent assembly that adopted the new federal constitution and formation of the new federal parliament killed in the country.
RBC Radio
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