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Former Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud is organizing demonstrations in Mogadishu and civil war. A statement was released from Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s office.
What has Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud done for Somalia?
According to Kenya today, the former Somalia president, a former minister and a U.S law firm is accused of conspiring to divert Somali assets recovered abroad, according to a new report by the United Nations panel that monitors compliance with U.N. sanctions on Somalia.
The panel 8-person committee disclosed the findings in a confidential report to the U.N. Security Council’s Somalia and Eritrea sanctions committee.
The information gathered so far “reflects exploitation of public authority for private interests and indicates at the minimum a conspiracy to divert the recovery of overseas assets in an irregular manner.” the U.N. Monitoring Group said.
The Somalia overseas assets including cash and gold were frozen and held in banks at the outset of civil wars in 1991. This also included government properties on foreign soil.
Former Somalia president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, his office, former foreign minister Fowzia Yusuf and U.S-based law firm Shulman Rogers were involved the conspiracy together with two other individuals who acted as liaison between Shulman Rogers and Somalia but have all denied any wrong doing and accused the chairman of the Monitoring Group, Jarat Chopra, of dubious investigative methods and making baseless assertions. The findings can scare off foreign donors who have pledged to rebuild his shattered nation. after two decades of civil war.
The former foreign minister, who is now a lawmaker in the Somali parliament, said she never profited from the Shulman Rogers contract and that she had not pressured Yassur Abrar, Somalia’s former central bank governor. “As a foreign minister, my role was to build the image of Somalia,
Monitoring Group said individuals in Mohamud’s government used the Somali central bank as a personal “slush fund”, with an average 80 percent of withdrawals made for private purposes. The presidency and the then-central bank governor Abdusalam Omer.
In their last report the group said “a complex architecture of multiple secret contracts, which defied a separation of powers between the Presidency and the Central Bank, created the opportunity and rationalization for the misappropriation of public resources.”
Former Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his whole family stole more than $500 million in public funds. The time he was in office for 5 years he never paid civil servants, army forces, police and the whole ministry their wages.
Mr Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud was a teacher before he became the Somali president and now he is a multimillionaire, owning properties in Turkey, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritius and around the world.
The current Somali government should prosecute Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and freeze all his assets because he stole from the Somali people.