By Abdinasir Mohamed, editor in chief

MOGADISHU (Sunatimes)- Juweria Abdi Ali, a Somali-Kenyan woman has appealed the release of her husband kidnapped by Somali gunmen in Somalia on 2008.

Speaking to a Somalijournal reporter in Nairobi on Tuesday she says that her husband Murray Watson was abducted in Bu'ale district of Lower Jubba region in southern Somalia by armed gunmen on 1 April 2008 with a Kenyan national and other UN staff as they were conducting nutritional operations for starving Somalis in southern Somalia.

"I am Somali girl. My husband is absent from me 2 years and 6 months. Those who abducted my husband are Muslims. So I am asking them to inform to me whether he is dead or a live. I am kindly requesting from them to release him if they are Muslims for sake of our religion” She said as tears shed on her eyes at sitting room of her house in Nairobi.

She lives with her three children in Nairobi with nothing to do, saying that they had no money since their father was abducted by the armed gunmen.

"My husband is Muslim and has the Islamic religion so I am repeating my request to the abductors to release and give his freedom if he is a alive and tell me if he is dead and even inform us if they need a ransom. We are in a very hard situation at the moment, I can not pay the school fees for my children whom I would like them to go to
university," Juweria said in an interview.

Asked about if she had made any earlier appeal and her commucications with the United Nations officials whom he was working for, she replied that she spoke to the UN and in an appeal to release her spouse, but said she did not see any one supporting her for the release of Mr Watson so far.

"I had talked and talked to the United Nations and also the British government several times. I also talked with Somali elders and also
the president of Somalia. I talked them more for any efforts to release my husband Mr Watson, but I did not see any one helping me on that. My husband is white and British man. He is Muslim” she said.

Gunmen in Somalia, mostly Islamists have made the horn of Africa country the most dangerous place to live and work in this work, but waging violent acts and series of kidnappings.

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