PM Roble meets with security chiefs

GOOBJOOG NEWS/MOGaDISHU: Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble met with the country’s top security officials and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) commanders on Sunday, to discuss the country’s security situation.

Top on yesterday’s agendas were the terror attacks that rocked the nation early last week in Mogadishu and Beletweyne.

The meeting probed the security lapses that necessitated the attacks that injured 108 people and claimed the lives of 48 others including MP Amina Abdi in Beletweyne, and led to the death of six other people in the Mogadishu Airport attack.

Prime Minister Roble instructed the security chiefs to conduct a thorough investigation into the attacks and strengthen security in the country, especially at polling stations ahead of presidential elections in Mogadishu.

The Minister of State Security, Farhan Ali Ahmed later briefed the media of a joint committee of government and AMISOM security ministers, tasked with overseeing the probe.

Prime Minister Roble’s security meeting came hours after the outgoing president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, held a similar meeting with the Commanders of the Armed Forces, Police, Corrections and Intelligence.

Conspicuously absent from Farmaajo’s meeting were the Federal Ministers of Internal Security and Defense, who were present at Sunday’s meeting chaired by Prime Minister Roble.