By: Abdi Muse
Buurhakaba (RBC) The first police unit will operate in Buurhakaba town of Somalia’s southern region of Baay after the expulsion of the extremists a month ago, RBC Radio reports.
The district commissioner Ahmed Mohamed Yusuf told local media that some 200 Somali police unit will operate in the town within four days.
“We put our request earlier to the police command and they just informed us that the first police unit to operate in Buurhakaba.” the district commissioner said.
On February the African Union troops in Somalia [AMISOM] along with Somali government forces have taken control of the town of Buurhakaba town, a former stronghold of al-Shabab about 240-kms away from the country’s capital, Mogadishu.
“Since the liberation from Al Shabab the military forces of Somalia and AMISOM were taking the security of the town, but now the need is for the police force.” the commissioner whispered.
The prime minister of the country’s federal government had earlier pledged to stabilize the liberated regions as part of the grand stabilization plan.
RBC Radio
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