Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Soomaaliya oo Marxalad Cusub Gashay

Waa ilaah mahaddii marba haddii Xamar doorasho Madaxweyne lagu qabtay.

Hoos ka akhri sidy wax u dgaceen.


Time line: Somali Presidenial Election 2012
 




 





Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Balaayo inteey kaa maqan tahay, deriskaaga ayey ku maqan tahay

Kenya oo laga yaabo iney balaayadii Soomaaliya haysatey 21 sano xaggeeda usoo wareegto. Akhri maqaalkan oo ay qortay Reuters.

INSIGHT-Separatist storm brewing on Kenya's coast

Mon, Jul 23 2012
 
* Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) wants coast to break away

* Threat to disrupt March elections if secession refused

* Analysts see possible al Shabaab links in restless youth

* Grievances over land, jobs swell separatist spirit

By James Macharia

MOMBASA, Kenya, July 23 (Reuters) - Near the white sandy beaches along Kenya's coast where tourists sip cocktails in the sun, graffiti scrawled on walls proclaims 'Pwani si Kenya' or 'The Coast is not Kenya'.

The Swahili slogans are a call by an outlawed group for the coastal region, including a booming tourist industry and Mombasa, Kenya's oldest city and biggest port, to secede from East Africa's largest economy.

The separatist message preached by the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) has spread through mosques, churches, markets, coffee houses, text messages and Facebook.
MRC wants the coast, where centuries of Arab trade and influence left their mark and minarets show the predominance of Islam, to have its own flag, currency and president.
The campaign taps into deep local grievances over land ownership and employment being in the hands of outsiders, who have settled at the coast over the years from other regions of Kenya, west of the contested coastal belt.
"I am coastal by birth and right, yet I can't benefit from our own resources ... all the jobs are taken by them, people from upcountry," Joram Kahindi, 26, and a father of three, said at a rundown barber shop north of Mombasa.
"We need to be in control of our region," he said, turning up a Bob Marley reggae tune playing on his transistor radio.
MRC supporters threaten to boycott and disrupt voting on the coast in national elections scheduled for March if their demand for secession is not met by authorities in the capital Nairobi.
This could turn one of Kenya's best-known tourist havens into a potential flashpoint, fuelling wider fears of ethnic violence and riots during the elections.
More than 1,200 people were killed in bloody tribal clashes in Kenya that followed a disputed presidential vote in 2007.
"The MRC threat is the single biggest risk in next year's election," said Mzalendo Kibunjia, who heads a national agency formed to reconcile tribes after the violence five years ago.
The outlawed group's partisans, believed to number thousands, s ay while the coast is a jewel in Kenya's economy, many locals remain jobless and landless. Local schools and hospitals are run down and roads pitted with potholes.
If the coast were to secede, it would deny Kenya access to the Indian Ocean and transform it into a landlocked country.
President Mwai Kibaki has flatly rejected the MRC demand for secession, refusing any negotiations on this point.
Not far from Kahindi's barber shop, local businesswoman Phyllis Njeri, who is originally from central Kenya but has lived on the coast for more than 30 years, said she was afraid of becoming a target of the threatened MRC violence.
"If they come chasing people from upcountry, you can imagine how this wood will burn," said Njeri in her workshop crammed with timber and roofing sheets.
"Most of the local people at the coast support the MRC, and this makes us people from upcountry very anxious."

"MOB JUSTICE"
The MRC takes its name from Mombasa, the commercial hub of the coast and Kenya's second-largest city after Nairobi.
Mombasa draws tourists to its sun-drenched beaches and quaint old town, with its winding streets and Arab architecture of ornately carved doors and window frames.
Men wander into mosques clad in flowing white robes, while women wearing traditional black garments fill the busy markets.
The MRC, which says Mombasa would be the capital of independent 'Pwani', was outlawed in 2010 by Kenyan authorities along with 33 entities described as "organised criminal groups".
It has asked Kenya's courts to block the March elections and to reverse the ban on its activities, its leader told Reuters.
"There will be no peace, this I cannot hide from you. The coast will have no peace at all. Voting in the coast will not happen if there is no secession," MRC chairman Omar Mwamnwadzi said, speaking at his home south of Mombasa.
He spoke in Swahili, the national language of Kenya, where English is used for business. Swahili originally developed on the coast and borrows words from other languages such as Arabic.
"We will not allow elections here. It will be mob justice using rocks. Many will die," Mwamnwadzi said, surrounded by white-bearded elders and sitting barefoot on a mat under swaying palm trees. He wore black trousers and a faded blue T-shirt.
The MRC partisans have shown they are capable of violence.
In March, police at the coast arrested people it said were MRC members when they disrupted a mock poll exercise in Malindi, a tourist haven at the coast, injuring officers. Mwamnwadzi denied issuing orders for the attack.
The following month, a man said to be a supporter of the MRC was killed after being hit with a rock by a fellow protestor when dozens of its members stormed a Mombasa court hearing a case in which the separatists want to reverse a ban on its activities.
A ruling on MRC's court challenge is due on July 25.
Kenya has once before faced demands from separatists, when in the 1960s, ethnic Somalis in the northeast pushed for secession, seeking to be part of a 'Greater Somalia'.
Kenya's founding president Jomo Kenyatta ended their claims with a tough military crackdown that left many dead.
"We are also ready to die, we have suffered too long," Mwamnwadzi said, speaking calmly in a deep voice.
Aged 61, he can neither read nor speak English, and dropped out of school in grade four before later joining the army.
To back MRC's claims of a separate historical heritage for the coast, Mwamnwadzi cites an ancient treaty dating back to its rule by an Arabian Sultan based in Zanzibar.
MRC says it has documents of a 1963 accord signed by then Kenyan Prime Minister and later President Kenyatta and his Zanzibar counterpart Mohamed Shante, granting Kenya a 50-year lease over the coast. This would expire in June 2013, so returning the region to its indigenous people, the MRC argues.
But the Kenyan government and historians in Nairobi have dismissed the treaty as a forgery and MRC propaganda.
The government says that while the coast was ruled by a Sultan, it reverted back to mainland rule from Nairobi upon Kenya's independence from Britain in 1963.
Mwamnwadzi says he is inspired by successful past secessionist movements in South Sudan, Eritrea, Puntland and Somaliland that brought independence or autonomy to these territories and also by the ongoing uprising by an Islamist group in Zanzibar demanding to break away from Tanzania.
AL SHABAAB LINK?
Kenyan officials say MRC is infiltrated by fighters from al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al Shabaab, which has waged a five-year insurgency against Somalia's government since 2007.
Mwamnwadzi, who retired as a senior private from the Kenya Army in 1985, denies he has any ties with Islamist militants.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Cabdiraxmaan Faroole oo kusoo biiray “Qaswadayaasha”

Waxay ahayd kowdii bishan Meey markii saddexda nin ee kala ah Safiir Boubacar G. Diarra oo ah Wakiilka gaarka ah ee Ururka Midowga Afrika u qaabilsan arrimaha Soomaaliya, Ditoor Augustine P. Mahiga oo ah Wakiilka gaarka ah ee Xoghayaha Guud ee Qaramada Midoobay u qaabilsan arrimaha Soomaaliya, iyo Mudane Kipruto arap Kirwa oo ah Fududeeyaha Urur Goboleedka IGAD u qaabilsan dhinaca nabadgelyada iyo dib-u-heshiinsiinta ee Soomaaliya, ay soo saareen qoraal digniin ah oo ay ugu digayaan dad Soomaali ah oo ay ugu yeereen “Qaswadayaal” (Spoilers) kuwaaas oo ka biyo diidsanaa sida uu u socdo qorshaha laga magac baxay “Roadmap”ka kaasoo ku saabsan sida looga baxayo ku meelgaarnimada dowladda Soomaaliya ee hadda jirta iyo weliba arrimaha Dastuurka qabyada ah.
Waxaan qormooyinkeygii hore kusoo sheegay iney jireen dad badan oo Soomaali ah iyo weliba qabaa’illo Soomaali ah oo kasoo hor jeestey arrinta Dastuurka Qabayada ah dadkasoo ka kooban Aqooyhanno, Siyaasiyiin, Culimada Diinta, Odey Dhaqameedyo, Haween, Dhallinyaro iyo dad kaloo badan.
Haddaba waxaa dadkaa aan kor kusoo sheegay kusoo biiray Cabdiraxmaan Faroole oo ah Madaxweynaha Maamul Goboleedka Puntland oo horey loogu xaman jirey inuu ahaa qofka dabada ka riixaya hirgelinta Dastuurka Qabyada ah. Waxaa suurtogal noqotay inaan helno warqad uu Cabdiraxmaan Faroole 4tii Bishan Meey u diray saddexda nin ee aan kor kusoo sheegay iyo weliba Safiirrada Waddammada Mareykanka, Ingiriiska, iyo Wakiilka Gaarka ee ah ee Waddammada Yurub u qaabilsan Arrimaha Soomaaliya.
Hoos ka akhriso warqadda uu Faroole qoray iyo weliba warqadda digniinta ah ee ay soo sareen nimanka run ahaantii ka taliya Soomaaliya oo ah saddexda nin ee soo saaray digniinta ku socota dadka ay ugu yeereen “Qaswadayaasha” oo ay ugu hanjabeen cunaqabateyn iyo weliba iney ka adeejin doonaan “Matt Bryden” oo ah nin u ololeeya gooni isu taagga Soomaalida Gobollada Woqooyi.



Monday, April 30, 2012

Xamar Dhismaa Ka Socda!

Waxaanse gran la’ahay cidda dhiseysa Kanniisadda Katooliga oo lagu bur buriyey dagaalladii sokeeye ee Xamar ka dhacay. Sida aad ku aragtaan sawirka hoose, waxaa Kanniisadda agteeda, weliba dhinaceeda bidix, laga dhisay guri gaaban oo uu laamiyeeri (jiingad) saaran yahay. Waxaa kaloo meesha taagan Baabuur iskaroge ah oo ah kuwa qaada ciidda iyo dhagxaanta dhismaha. Waxaa sidoo kale meesha yaalla ciidda iyo bulukeetiga guryaha lagu dhiso.
Haddaan gartay……! War meesha waxaa laga sameeyey Makiinadda Bulukeetiga sameysa oo dad ayaaba warshadda Bulukeetiga sameysa ka furtay derbigii Kanniisadda Katooliga. Ninka ag fadhiya qofka haweenka ahna wuxuu u egyahay qof salad ku jira. Waa cajiib!


Friday, April 27, 2012

Qof Haysta Dhalasho Kale Madax Kama Noqon Karo Soomaaliya!

Sidaas waxaa yiri Wasiiru Dowlaha Wasaaradda Dastuurka, Xasan Maxamuud Jimcaale “Xasan Dheere” oo sheegay in arrintani ay tahay wax ka bedelid lagu sameeyey Dastuurka Qabya Qoraalka Soomaaliya oo la filayo in la ansixiyo goor dhow. Xasan Dheere ayaa isbeddelkan ka sheegay barnaamijka kulanka Jimcaha ee ka baxay Raadiyo Muqdisho 27ka Abriil, 2012. Sidoo kale waxaa isna isla barnaamijkaa ka hadlay Cabdikariim Xaaji Cabdi (Buux) oo ah Wasiir ku Xigeenka Wasaaradda Dastuurka oo sheegay in sidoo kale wax laga beddeli doono qodobbada la xiriira Jinsiyadda. Diidmada loo diiddan yahay in qof dhalasho kale haysta uu Soomaaliya madax ka noqdo waxa keliya ee uu uga hortagi karo waxay tahay inuu ka laabto dhalashada waddankaa kale iskana celiyo Baasaboorka waddankaa kale.
Isku soo wada duuboo, waxaad mooddaa inuu hadda bilowday dagaal u dhexeeya Soomaalidii waddanka ku hartay iyo kuwii usoo haajiray dibadaha kadib markii la afgembiyey dowladdii Soomaaliya sanadkii 1991kii. Waxaase wax lala yaabo ah in dadka haddaba ka taliya Soomaaliya ay badankoodu yihiin kuwo haysta dhalashooyin kale, haba u badnaadaan waddammada reer galbeedka. Kuwo kalena waxayba haystaan dhalashada waddammada la deriska ah Soomaaliya sida Keyna, Itoobiya iyo Jabuuti.
Waxaad mooddaa mar kale in lagu deg degay waxka bedelidda Dastuurka sidaan horey usoo sheegayba sababtoo ah xal ma aha in dadka waddanka xal u keeni kara ee wax soo bartay la yiraahdo xukun kama qaban kartaan waddanka waxaana idinka wanaagsan kuwa kusoo jirey dagaallada 20kii sano ee lasoo dhaafay oo aan aqoon si wax loo dhiso balse ku xeel dheer sida wax loo dumiyo, dadka loo dilo loona barakiciyo. Run ahaantii dadka Soomaaliya jooga ee raba iney madax noqdaan waxay u baahan yihiin in la daaweeyo sababtoo ah maskaxdoodu ma fiyooba.
Ugu dambeyntii, go’aankan wax looga beddelay Dastuurka, waaba haddii lagu dhaqmee, wuxuu jidgooyo u dhiganayaa rag badan oo usoo xirxirtay iney u tartamaan madaxtinimada waddanka Soomaaliya kuwaasoo ku kala nool waddammada Yurub iyo Mareykanka. Waxay Soomaalidu ku maahmaahdaa “Durbaan nin xaday meeshuu ku tumi lahaa ayaa laga rabaa” taasoo aan ula jeedo dadka isku koobaya madaxtinnimada waddanka waxaa laga rabaa meeshii ay wax ku xukumi lahaayeen.
Xigasho: Webka Radio Muqdisho. http://radiomuqdisho.net/xukuumadda-oo-wax-ka-bedeshay-qodobbo-ka-mid-ah-dastuurka/

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Waa lagu deg degay ku dhawaaqidda inuu dhameystiran yahay Dastuurka Soomaaliya

Wasiirka wasiirrada Soomaaliya, Cabdiweli Maxamed Cali ayaa maanta oo bisha April ay tahay 24, 2012 sheegay in lasoo gebagebeeyey Dasturkii dalka kadib wadi tashi lala yeeshay dhammaanba qeybaha bulshada Soomaaliyeed ee ku nool dalka gudihiisa iyo dibaddiisaba isagoo yiri “Waxaan ku faraxsanahay inaan ku dhawaaqo in xubintii ugu muhiimsaneyd ee qeybaha Roadmapka ee aheyd Dastuurka in lagu soo dhameystiray xilligii la isla gartay. Waxaan u mahadcelinayaa shacabka Soomaaliyeed oo muddadii wadatashiga ku biirayey fikradahooda si hagar la’aan ah, Guddiga madaxa bannaan ee Dastuurka (IFCC) iyo Guddiga Khubarada Soomaaliyeed (CoE) oo danta guud ka horumariyey tooda gaarka ah, Wasiirada Wasaaradda Dastuurka, Federaalka iyo Dib-u-heshiisiinta, shaqaalaha Xafiiskeyga, guddiyada farsamo iyo beesha caalamka oo xaqiijiyey guushan taariikhiga ah inay noqoto mid dhab ah.”
Dad badan oo aan anigu ku jiro kuma biirinin fikraddooda Dastuurka sababtoo ah fursad nalooma siin aan ku dhiibanno fikraddeena. Qolada loo dhiibay diyaarinta Dastuurka oo awoodi waayey iney saxaan erayada ku qoran Dastuurka waxay ka dhexeeyeen Nairobi, Jabuuti, Garoowe, iyo Xamar. Waxaa mar la sheegay iney yimaadeen London si ay dadka ula tashadaan waxse kama soo bixin.
Waxaa cad in Dastuurka soo bandhigiddiisa lagu deg degay oo uusan dhameytirneyn sida uu qirtay Madaxweyne Shariif Sheekh Axmed isagoo yiri “Dastuurka qabyada ah waxaa ku jira qodobo anagu xitaa aanan jecleysan sida loo qoray hase ahaatee waxaan u deyneynaa ergada 825 ah ee la rabo iney ansixiyaan. Ma waxaan dhihi karnaa ergadaas dhamaantood waa wax magarato iyo jaahiliin ah. Iyagaa bedeli doona wax alla iyo wixii maslaxadda ummadda dhibaato ku ah”.
Waxaase ku dhawaaqidda inuu Dastuurku dhameystiran yahay kasii daran in loo gacan geliyo 825 oday dhaqameed oo aan aqoon u lahayn waxa uu yahay dastuur iyagoo laga rabo rabo iney muddo laba usbuuc ah sixid ku sameeyaan Dastuurka kuna ansixiyaan 30ka bishan April, 2012. Dasuurka laftiisa ragga soo diyaariyey ma aysan sheegin aqoontooda iyo khibraddooda xagga sharciga ah.
Waxaa wax laga xumaado ah in Dastuurku uu qorayo in wax aqoon ah oo looga baahan yahay aysan jirin ragga la rabo iney u taliyaan waddanka laga soo billabo madaxweynaha, wasiirka wasiirrada, wasiirradda dowladda iyo xubanaha baarlamaanka aan ka ahayn iney Soomaali yihiin sida ku cad Qodobka 95 oo qeexaya shuruudaha looga baahan yahay qofka raba inuu madaxweyne noqdo. Wasiirka wasiirrada ma jiro wax shuruudo ah oo laga rabo oo ku cad dastuurka oo aan ka ahayn inuu madaxweynuhu keensado qofkuu isagu rabo. Sidoo kale Qodobka 107 ee Dastuurka waxa uu sheegayaa in madaxweynuhu  magacaabo madaxweyne ku xigeen iyo 21 wasiir. Waddanku wuxuu yeelanayaa madaxweyne, madaxweyne ku xigeen iyo wasiirka wasiirrada taasoo ah arrin aan adduunka horey looga arag. Sidoo kale ma cadda wax shuruud ah haba yaraatee oo ku cad qodobkan oo laga rabo qofka raba inuu noqdo wasiir. Shuruudaha qofka laga rabo si uu uga mid noqdo baarlaamaanka waddanka waxay tahay inuu yahay Soomaali codeyn kara da’diisuna ay ka weyn tahay 25 sano sida ku cad Qodobka 77 ee Dastuurka.
Waxaa horeyba u jirtey diidmo badan oo lagu diiddan yahay Dastuurka qabyada ah oo ka imaanayey aqoonyahanno Soomaaliyeed oo ku kala nool adduunka dacalladiisa iyo xubno iyo qabiillo badan oo Soomaali ah oo ku nool waddanka gudihiisa oo ay ugu dambeysey Beesha Habar Gidir oo shir ay isugu yimaadeen oo ka dhacay Muqdisho, iyadoo ay magacooda ku hadlayeen odayaasha kala ah Xuseen Jaamac Kediye, Abuukar Ganey oo sheegay inuu yahay Guddoomiyaha Beesh Habar Gidir, iyo Janaraal Yuusuf Maxamed Siyaad “Indhacadde” oo kamid ah saraakiisha ciidammada dowlladda ku meelgaarka ah, ku sheegay iney diiddan yihiin Dastuurkan lasoo dhoodhoobay. Xuseen Jaamac Kediye oo ka mid ahaa Odayaashaasi ayaa waxa uu Madashada shirka ka aqriyay Warsaxaafadeed dhowr qodob ka koobna oo ka turjumayay sida beeshaasi ay ugu go’antahay inay ka horyimaadaan guud ahaan Dastuurka cusub ee la doonayo in dhawaan lagu ansixiyo Magaalada Muqdisho.
Sidoo kale shir ay Muqdisho ku yeesheen xubno ka tirsan baarlamaanka hadda jira kana soo jeeda beelaha shanaad oo uu u hadlayey Ugaas Cali Ugaas Xirsi Dhiblaawe ayaa waxay beesha caalanka u jeediyeen in shacabka Soomaaliyeed aysan matalin dadka ku howlan ansixinta qabyo qoraalka Dastuurka cusub ee la doonayo in 30-ka Bishaan lagu ansixiyo magaalada Muqdisho isagoo intaasi raaciyay in dadka lagu sheegay in ay yihiin Salaadiin ee la isugu geeynayo xarunta Gaadiidka Boosliska ee magaalada Muqdisho in ay yihiin kuwo aan matalin beelaha ay kasoo jeedaan.
Isku soo wado duuboo, arrintu waxay u egtahay in waddanku uu galayo marxalad hor leh oo qas iyo jahawareer ku dhisan iyadoo arrintan ay majaraha u hayaan dad aan aqoon u lahayn dowlad wanaag oo dantoodu ay tahay sidii ay ku raadsan lahaayeen nolol maalmeelkooda iyagoo aan rabin iney u daneeyaan dalka iyo dadka midnaba.

Hoos riix si aad u akhrisato Dastuurka la leeyahay wuu dhameystiran yahay oo ku qoran Af Soomaali iyo Af Ingiriis.

http://www.dastuur.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=144



Monday, April 23, 2012

Wey noosoo Gurmadeen Noomase Hagarbixin

Kadib burburkii ku dhacay Soomaaliya, gaar ahaan caasimadda Xamar, waxaan usoo gurmaday dowlado badan oo Afrikaan ah oo u yimid nabad ilaalin. Waxaa sidoo kale yimid dowladda Turkiga oo u timid samafal.

Waxaase wax laga xumaado ah ineysan dowladahaasi noo hagarbxin sida aad ku arki doontaan sawirradda hoos ka muuqda oo meeshii ay dayactri lahaayeen guryihii dhisnaa ayey waxay waddanka keeneen guro sameysan iyo teendhooyin ay kala yimaadeen waddmadooda taasoo ku tuseysa inaaney daacad ka ahayn wax u qabashada waddanka oo ay wanaagsaneyd iney dayactiraan guryihii ku waxyeellobay dagaallada.


Guryo lasoo sameeyey (Prefabricated) oo laga dhex iyo ag dhisay kuwii dhisnaa ee dayactirka u baahnaa
Cusbitaal Teendhooyin ah oo Turkigu ka dhisay Barxadda Sayidka
Teendhooyin laga dhisay Isbitaal Digfeer hortiisa iyadoo isbitaalka la dayactiri karo


Friday, April 20, 2012

Shirkii London

Hoos ka fiiri dadkii ka qeyb galay shirkii London lagu qabtay bishii Febraayo, 2012 ee looga hadlayey arrimaha Soomaaliya.

Muqdisho sidee la yeeli?

Dad allow talo naga soo siiya sidii la yeeli lahaa guryihii qaddiimiga ahaa ee Muqdisho ku yaallay, siiba xaafadaha Xamar Weyne, Shingaani, Boondheere, iyo Xamar JaJab. Bal eega sawirkan hoos ka muuqda.

Waa la idinkaga mahad celinayaa wixii talo iyo tusaale ah oo ku saabsan sidii laga yeeli xaafadahaa uu burburka badani soo gaaray.


"Home Work" ayuu u dilay wiilka yar

War niman yahow maxaa ka khaldan Soomaalida? Ninkan wuxuu ku marmarsiiyoonayaa inuu wiilka yar u dilay "home work" uu ka shaqeyn waayey darteed. Ma waxaasaa wax lagu hadlo ah? Bal hoos ka akhri mucjisadan saqiirrada la dilayo. Ninkan madaxa ayuu wax ka qabaa oo ilama aha inuu sidan ku fayow yahay.


Neighbor chillingly recalls 10-year-old's fear of returning home to stepfather, who hours later confessed to police he beat boy to death


Friday, April 20, 2012

Ten-year-old Abdifatah Mohamud was running for his life down Sycamore Street at about 5 p.m. Tuesday when a concerned neighbor stopped to try to help.

Seeing the boy's stepfather chasing after him, the neighbor helped the man, Ali Mohamed Mohamud, catch up with the child.

The boy didn't want to go home with Mohamud.

"I told the boy, 'Daddy promises nothing is going to happen,'" the neighbor later told The Buffalo News.

"The boy said to me: 'No, he always says that.'"

Less than six hours later, Abdifatah was dead, brutally beaten, and his stepfather, Ali Mohamed Mohamud, was under arrest.

The boy was tied to a chair with duct tape, a sock stuffed in his mouth, and he was beaten with a stick or blunt object in the basement of their Guilford Street home, near the Broadway Market, authorities said.

The stepfather was angry because the boy, a fifth-grader at the International Preparatory School on Clinton Street, had fallen behind in his homework, law enforcement officials said.

The neighbor, a mother of young children, sobbed as she recalled how she intervened, persuading the boy to go with his stepfather and even drivingthem back to their house.

"Your daddy says everything will be OK," the neighbor recalled telling the boy, asking that her name not be published. "I may have been the last person to see that little boy alive."

During the short ride home, she said, the stepfather offered repeated assurances that Abdifatah would be fine.

"I told the boy, 'You go home, and if something does happen, you let me know tomorrow morning,'" the neighbor said.

Mohamud, 40, a native of Somalia who has been in the United States for a decade, was charged with second-degree murder. Police investigators were shocked over the viciousness of the beating, according to Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda, who struggled Wednesday to find words to comment on the case.

"Every homicide is bad, but it is particularly hard to deal with for first responders, police and others, when it is a 10-year-old child," Derenda said. "In talking to investigators, I was told it was one of the most grisly crime scenes that they can remember, and some have been here 40 years."

Erie County Assistant District Attorney Thomas M. Finnerty, at Mohamud's arraignment Wednesday, told City Judge Diane Wray that Mohamud admitted beating his stepson to death.

"The defendant admitted he tied up his 10-year-old stepson, admitted that he put a sock in his mouth, put duct tape over the mouth and beat him to death with a stick or similar blunt object," Finnerty said.

Ferry Fillmore District Police Officer Christopher Fields, responding to a call from the boy's mother of a missing person, entered 30 Guilford St. at about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday and searched the house.

In the basement, he found the child's body, partially hidden under a blanket.

Mohamud, a security guard who is employed by U.S. Security Associates and worked at The Buffalo News, fled from the house in a red Subaru Forester and called his work supervisor, asking him to meet him at the newspaper.

The supervisor tried to find out what was wrong during the phone call, but Mohamud refused to say, according to a report the supervisor later filed.

At 11 p.m., the two met at the newspaper, and Mohamud confessed to the killing, according to the supervisor's report.

"I have a lot of problems and killed one of my kids," Mohamud told the supervisor, according to his report.

Mohamud had come to The News to remove his possessions from his work locker, the supervisor reported.

Police in the area spotted Mohamud's vehicle parked near The News building and approached the Scott Street entrance.

The supervisor told police that Mohamud was in the building and led them to him in the locker room. Mohamud then stood up, and police handcuffed him.

At Buffalo Police Headquarters, Mohamud cooperated with Detective Sgt. James Lonergan and provided police with a statement "indicating his involvement in the death of his stepson," Detective Chief Dennis J. Richards said.

But none of this could comfort the neighbor who had tried to help the boy she spotted running down Sycamore with his school knapsack.

"It wasn't normal," the neighbor recounted. "I was trying to pull over, but there was traffic behind me. Then I saw his father on the other side of Sycamore. He was running after him and trying to stop cars to get across the street and catch him."

When the traffic had finally passed her eastbound car on Sycamore, she swung around and drove up to the stepfather, heading toward Jefferson Avenue.

"I asked, 'What's going on?' and he said his son was running away and he was trying to catch him. He asked if I would give him a ride, and I did. He said he didn't want anything to happen to him.

"We spotted the boy on Jefferson, and he was trying to jump over a fence. The father got out of the car and held him by the hand. The boy said to me he wanted to go to a family member's house on Auburn Avenue.

"He said: 'I don't want to go back with him.' He would not sit in the back seat of the car with his father. He said he wanted to sit in [the] front seat next to me. I told him, 'You come home with me and we'll wait for your mother, or if you have the phone number, we'll call your family on Auburn.'"

At that point, the neighbor, an immigrant from Africa like the Mohamuds, said the boy calmed down a little.

By 5:20 p.m., she said, she had pulled up in front of the boy's house, and the stepfather and boy went inside.

The neighbor sobbed Wednesday recounting the episode.

Mohamud is married to the boy's mother, Shukri, and both have children from previous relationships for a total of six children, according to police, neighbors and acquaintances.

Richards declined to comment on a motive, but neighbors said the father could be very strict, especially when it came to the youngsters doing their homework.

"The father wanted him to study and study. He told me, 'I check his homework every night, and his grades are going down,'" said Tariq Butt, whose family watched Abdifatah's two younger siblings after their brother's body was discovered.

Butt, an acquaintance of the Mohamud family, said the stepfather had confided in him that he was upset with Abdifatah for falling behind in his homework.

"I always had this feeling that the father was strict," Butt said, and added that Abdifatah was a well-behaved youngster.

Back on Guilford Street, as neighbors congregated throughout the day to discuss the death, Johnny Alexander, a longtime Guilford resident, offered this explanation for a killing that defied logic:

"You just never know what's going on in people's homes."

Mohamud is scheduled to return to City Court at 2 p.m. Monday for further proceedings. In the meantime, he is being held without bail in the Erie County Holding Center.

lmichel@buffnews.com

My Comments and Suggestions on the Consultation Draft Constitution of the Somali Republic

Drafted by the Independent Federal Constitution Commission
Dated, Sealed and Issued by Independent Federal Constitution Commission on 30th July 2010.

Prapared by Abdikhafar Abubakar on May 19, 2012.

ü    I would recommend that the name of Allah written in Arabic “Bismillahi Raxmani Raxim” to be removed from the Constitution due to the fact of that this document will be handled by both Muslims and Non-Muslims and could end up to be taken to the toilet, which is disrespectful to Allah’s name when someone takes it to the toilet. It is narrated from the Prophet (Peace be Upon Him) that he used to remove his ring that was engraved with “Muhammad Rasululah” whenever he was going to the toilet.

ü    More editing and grammatical corrections are needed to be done to the entirety of the Constitution.


ü    Chapter 2 is missing from the Table of Contents even though Article 9, elements of citizens is the start of Chapter 2 – Citizenships.

ü    Take out the word “Amen” or modify it to the word “Amin” at the end of the Preample.

ü    Grammatical correction is needed in Article 3 at the beginning of the second sentence.

ü    Article 5, Official Languages, I suggest the Official Language of the country to be left with the language that the majority of the the Somali people can understand and can communicate with each other, which is this case is Maxaa-tiri. Regional States have a right to adopt whatever language they prefer to have as their official language.

ü    Article 22, Freedom of Religion. Paragraph 1 and 2 are conflicting with each other. Based on the majority of the Somali people who are Muslims, one cannot practice his/her religion without renouncing Islam, and also, there is no mention of the consequence of renouncing Islam. This article needs a careful discussion due to the fact of that there are a number Somali people who already renounced Islam, especially those from the Diaspora.

ü    Article 26, Freedom of Movement and Residence has grammatical errors.

ü    Article 40, Arrested, detained and accused persons. Sub-paragraph (b) of the paragraph (6) is wrongly worded. A Fair Trail doesn’t include the right to be convicted on the basis of a forced confession. Sub-paragraphs (g) and (h) needs to be made as paragraphs.

ü     Article 56, The Principles of federalism of the Republic has to be clear enough so that all players know their responsibility and power entrusted into them.

ü    Article 58, International negotiations, no need for local governments to have a say into this otherwise the Federal Government will not have a power at all. Check the system of the US Government.

ü    Article 67, The National Capital. I suggest it to be left with Mogadishu and without a regional state. Make it like Washington, D.C. with representatives. Option 2 is the best.

ü    More to come soon …………