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Former Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud said,“Fahad Yasin is the owner of this government. He ruined the office of the presidency when he became the chief of staff at Villa Somalia. He also poisoned the security sector by disbanding the soldiers and the intelligence community. Now, he is destroying our political systems. We told him privately, but now we are saying it publicly. We must understand that he is on a path of disaster, and we reject this.”
The blistering comments come as Hassan Sheikh joined eleven other presidential hopefuls on Saturday to discuss the eligibility of the Federal and State Level Elections committees.
The parties accuse President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and Federal Member State Presidents of appointing civil servants, intelligence officials and cronies to the committee in a bid to manipulate the upcoming elections. Hassan Sheikh and Fahad Yasin have a personal relationship. Yasin worked as Mohamoud’s close adviser early in his presidency.