The Associated Press is reporting that the top U.N. World Food Program official in Somalia, detained since Wednesday, is under criminal investigation.
The head of Somalia’s intelligence service — in a country which is reported to have barely a functioning government — says he is convinced that Osman committed a crime. But, AP said, National Security Service chief Gen. Mohamed Warsame Darwish “refused to elaborate on its nature”.
The AP reported that Gen. Darwish said: ” ‘We are certain that Idris Osman committed a crime … ‘We will not release him until we finalize our investigations’.” Gen. Darwish also told AP that “no date had been set for Osman’s arraignment”.
The AP added that “Dozens of armed security agents stormed a U.N. compound in Mogadishu on Wednesday, seizing Idris Osman, according to the World Food Program, which immediately suspended food distribution aimed at helping about 76,000 people”.
The AP also stated, in its report, that “Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when rival warlords overthrew a dictatorship and then turned on each other”. The AP report that the UN official detained in Somalia is under criminal investigation is reported here.
So, we are being told that Somalia has a functioning intelligence service, and functioning security services — but little else?