MANDHEER —(Berberanews)- According to authority in Las Geel village, that is located in the outskirt of Berbera, police intercepted and detained a large truck carrying different various light firearms and live ammunition. Residents in Las Geel district confirmed to Somalilandpress reporters that the truck entered Somaliland from war-ravaged neighboring Somalia saying it traveled on the main road that connects two countries. Reports indicate that the truck managed to cross three provinces and several police check points without a hint.
Once the truck entered the outskirts of Da’ar Budhuq nearby the monument of “Omar-ku-Joog”, it diverted its destination direction and traveled onto local road that leads to farming land where another truck was there to unload the weapons. Residents in the country side spotted both trucks parked and individuals unloading weapons from one truck to another. The villagers notified the Sahil regional intelligence department whom promptly dispatched scores of police units that arrived just in time before both trucks departed.
The grave matter demonstrated the ill-informed Somaliland Intelligence agencies and their lack of effort to detect valuable surveillance of all incoming trucks from southern Somalia and other regions. The severity of today’s ineffectiveness of the secret services made President Ahmed Silaanyo officially sack the country’s Chief Intelligence officer Mr. Mohamed Muse Nuur.
President Silaanyo immediately appointed Mr. Jama Mohamed Botan, a recent graduate from Ethiopia military college with several years of intelligence experience as the head of the organization. The government has not commented nor issued a statement regarding the whereabouts of the two trucks and where the weapons were distant for. Somalilandpress staff based in Hargeisa has confirmed that the two trucks as well as their drivers are in custody and police were questioning them.
