Somali Security Agency questioned over Employee’s Disappearance

A close family members of Ikran Tahlil Farah, 24, who worked with SNI’s cybersecurity department has questioned the claim that Alshabab killed their employee. Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency said on Thursday that the al-Shabab group had killed the female employee who was abducted in Mogadishu.

According to reports, she was abducted on June 26th near her home in Mogadishu’s Abdulaziz district, which is close to NISA headquarters. The agency posted a brief statement on its website Thursday saying its investigation had determined that the young woman’s kidnappers handed her over to al-Shabab militants, who later killed her. However the agency did not release details about when or where it believed Ikran was killed.

Al-Shabab has not publicly acknowledged any role in Ikran’s disappearance. But the young woman’s mother, Abdullahi Ali Maow, said she thought her daughter might be alive and detained in a clandestine location.
Opposition leaders have been pressuring Somalia’s spy agency and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble for information about the disappearance of the intelligence agency employee.