Mahad Salad promotes Fahad Yasin’s friends to higher NISA positions

Ya’qub will be among a NISA team assigned to accompany president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on a planned trip to Eritrea, where trained soldiers have been stuck for one year.

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Mahad Salad promotes Fahad Yasin’s friends to higher NISA positions

MOGADISHU, Somalia – The new director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency [NISA] Mahad Salad has unexpectedly promoted Fahad Yasin's cronies to senior positions.

According to intelligence reports obtained by Keydmedia Somali, those promoted include Abas Ya’qub, who was serving as head of finance and technology at the national spy agency.

In July 2021, Ya’qub has been appointed as NISA's chief of staff, replacing Abdullahi Kulane, who was recently fired by ex-PM Roble for blocking the ex-Gedo governor from leaving the airport.

He is one of the individuals who secretly recruited over 5,000 youths from different regions in Somalia, who have been sent to Eritrea for training by Fahad Yasin between 2019 and 2020.

According to the sources, Mahad Salad has promoted the officer to the rank of assistant at his office. Ya’qub recently removed Yasin and Kulane from their security guards last June.

Abdullahi Abdirahman, who is a senior NISA becomes the second officer to get promoted to the director’s assistant on intelligence affairs.

Abdirahman was a close ally of Yasin and served as head of the Intelligence agency’s research and training institute. He also worked with Abdalla Abdalla, the fired NISA’s deputy director.

Ya’qub will be among a NISA team assigned to accompany president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on a planned trip to Eritrea, where trained soldiers have been stuck for one year.

Mohamud is said to be working on the return of the soldiers in Eritrea after his predecessor Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo failed to bring them back home before leaving Villa Somalia.

There are other officials promoted to senior positions, including Aden Dheere, who has been appointed Secretary of the NISA, Mohamed Kafi, who has been named Secretary of the Media office, and Awale, who has been appointed as Secretary of the office of the Director.

KEYDMEDIA English 

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