MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The Somali Federal Government’s Military Court has executed a man convicted of killing radio journalist, Hassan Yusuf Absuge in Mogadishu on Saturday, Garowe Online reports. The convicted murderer-Adan Sheikh Abdi, who was tied as a blindfolded to a pole at Mogadishu Police academy was executed by the Federal Government’s firing squad.Speaking to the media at the spot shortly after executing the journalist’s killer, Somali Military court spokesman, Abdullahi Muse Keyse said, after “three witnesses including a policeman”, who apprehended the perpetrator of the killing crime proved that Adan Sheikh Abdi deliberately shot dead journalist, Hassan Yusuf Absuge, the military court decided to carry out this execution act.
Late Absuge was assassinated in MogadishuÂ’s Yaqshid district in September 2012 and he had been working with a Mogadishu based radio station called, Radio Maanta.
It is first time, to be executed a criminal identified as Al Shabaab member by Mogadishu-based Federal Government.
Somali Police Chief, Gen. Sacid previously expressed concern over Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab groupÂ’s increasing clouts in the security agencies and called for in depth overhauls of federal intelligence.