Security personnel from the administration of the self-declared
independent state of Somaliland, northwestern Somalia, have arrested
Sulayman Mahmud Adan—known as Sulayman Gaal—on criminal
and political charges. Somaliland Interior Minister Ahmad Jambir
Sultan told Reuters news agency that Sulayman Gaal was undermining
Somaliland
by holding a meeting in Djibouti with President Ismail
Omar Guelleh. The interior minister said Gaal had also met in Djibouti
with a representative of the Mogadishu-based Transitional National
Government (TNG).
We have seized documents that are incriminating, and a list of
people, which include MPs and other personalities... who are believed
to be conspirators to the sabotage,
Ahmad Jambir told Reuters.
Sulayman Gaal was arrested at Hargeysa airport on arrival from Britain on Tuesday, and was taken to the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) headquarters in Hargeysa, ’Jamhuriya’, a local daily said on Wednesday.
Sulayman Gaal held senior posts in the former government, before joining the northern-based Somali National Movement (SNM). He was among the SNM leaders who declared the unilateral independence of Somaliland in May 1991. Sulayman served as a senior cabinet official in Somaliland, and in the 1997 presidential elections came second to President Muhammad Ibrahim Egal, political sources said. Gaal had been transferred from Hargeysa to Mandhera prison, 70 km north of Hargeysa, the source said.
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