Somaliland: Police Warn Opposition Parties Against Planned Elections Protest

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Major General Mohamed Aden Saqadhi Dabagale Commissioner of the Somaliland police

THT: The National police is made up by individual citizens of Somaliland  with a desire to serve the countr as  law enforcement officers

This was stated by Commissioner of the Somaliland police force Major General Mohamed Aden Saqadhi Dabagale in Hargeisa.

The warning from the top law enforcer was directed to the opposition parties of UCID and Wadani following announcement that they shall paralyse government operations if presidential elections are held on time.

Acrimonies between the state machinery and opposition political parties ensued last week after president Muse Bihi appointed a commission to probe the Somaliland national Elections Commission-NEC

According to Gen Dabagale a meeting between leaders of the opposition party Wadani and some young people in Hargeisa need with agreement to stage protests and confront police if presidential elections are delayed.

Stating that any protest shall not be tolerated unless legally approved and that inciting youths to defy thus engage police officers in running battles is illegal, Gen Dabagale warned that the force shall respond appropriately.

“It is unwise for opposition political leaders to promise youths a battle with law enforcers” said the police chief Adding that such an incident shall end with lose of life or Injuries to Somalilanders

Elaborating Major General Mohamed Aden Saqadhi Dabagale,pointed out police officers are under government oversight , individually they are citizens of Somaliland.

In the Hargeisa meeting referred to by the police chief, the opposition Wadani party candidate in Somaliland presidential elections 2022 Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi ‘Irro” was in unanimous agreement with local youths that if per chance the polls are delayed power shall be taken by any means.

The Somaliland presidential elections are slated for the 13th November this year but a power struggle amongst commissioners of NEC has put doubts on the polls

 

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