20 June 2017 :

The High Court of the Somali Armed Forces passed a verdict of death sentence this morning to one of the suspects for the murder of Abass Siraj, a former Federal Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction of Somalia.The first Prosecutor of the High Court Major Hassan Ali Noor Shuute announced the sentence regarding the two suspects held for the murder of the late Minister Abass.
The verdict stated that Ahmed Abdullahi Aidid of the Somali Armed Forces is sentenced to death while his co-accuser Sergeant Osman Salad Bare has been acquitted of the charges. This case has been going on since 3rd May 2017 when the murder of the Federal Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction Abass Siraj took place near the Presidential area. He was killed by a friendly fire from the security guards of the National Auditor General Noor Jimale Farah who was dismissed from his position as a result of the fatal attack.