Mogadishu (PP News Desk) — Somali troops whose evacuation was facilitated by Kenya after the Raaskaambooni debacle last week fear prosecution in a military court in Mogadishu. More than three hundred Somali army soldiers have sought help from Kenyan authorities near the coastal border between Somalia and Kenya, close to Raaskaambooni.
Nearly two weeks ago, the Federal Government of Somalia deployed contingents of Türkiye-trained special forces to overthrow the Jubaland administration. The election of Ahmed Mohamed Islam as the president of Jubaland for a new term irked Villa Somalia.
A military court prosecutor has reportedly been tasked with building mutiny and treason cases against several senior Somali army officers who sent reports to the Somali Defence Ministry about the inhospitable Raaskaambooni terrain and the logistical nightmare that affected troops after Jubaland State issued an ultimatum to the Federal Government of Somalia and urged it to evacuate the troops to Mogadishu.
At the Villa Somalia mosque, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud claimed that the Jubaland president had opposed harmonising national electoral systems to expedite the “impractical and unrealistic” one-person, one-vote elections that President Mohamud views as feasible by 2026.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that the beleaguered Prime Minister of Somalia, Hamsa Abdi Barre, offered to resign rather than support the court-martial of soldiers accused of surrendering to Kenyan troops after brief clashes with Jubaland forces last week.
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