Banadir regional chamber of commerce dissolved over Al Shabaab links

Benadir regional chamber of commerce has been dissolved and the executive director and his deputy arrested by NISA agents over alleged link to Al shabaab.

Benadir regional chamber of commerce is a trade organization headquartered in Mogadishu, Somalia. It serves as an umbrella group for the local business community. Membership is also open to international investors.

Somalia’s minister of trade and industrialization dissolved the commerce in a letter sent to the trade organization based in Mogadishu.

Minister Abdullahi Ali Hassan in a letter signed on 25th Jan 2019 dissolved the chairman and his two deputies and executive director and have so far been arrested by NISA agents over the alleged link to Alshabaab.

The new team was elected recently by business persons in the capital Mogadishu.

Al Shabaab have been accused have planting individuals linked to the group in the body in a bid to advance its agenda within the government.

The allegations are that the group intends to strengthen their spies within the government, as they seek to increase the revenue they get from the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

Authorities in Somalia are detaining a local singer who they say was a supporter of al-Shabaab.

Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said they had arrested the singer who was a member of a music band associated with Benadir local government in Mogadishu.

They accused him of “spying” for al-Shabaab.