Sunatimes.com - Somalia's terror group known as Al-shabab is making express money collection from business community by making threats to kill those who disobey their orders and fail to pay "Islamic Taxation."
The threats include killing, kidnap and all sort of harsh banishment that the religious militia are accustomed.
The taxation which an is open extortion is paid on percentage on all exported and imported commodities. .
"They act as they a real government of Somalia, they see the import manifest and traders ask to pay a sum of money already calculated by the their agents,” said Ahmed who decline his full name afraid of revenge.
"If you refuse to pay the extortion money the consequence is severe,” he Added.
Mogadishu merchants are afraid for their life and can”t deny to deal the AlShabab.
Another businessman told Waagacusub Media that there are extremist elements in the market that detail all importation of goods to Shabab.
A gentleman in mogadishu Amiir Mohamed Adan Farah is widely believed to the taxation expert of the terror group al-shabab. The Amiir (area king) is in. top leadership position in al shabab ranking.
"He controls the import and export from the port and airport of Mogadishu,” said a man who nicknamed himself dhuubow.
Mr Mohamed Adan was a member of secret service of former the Late dictator Mohamed Siad Barre government who was toppled 1991 by rebel groups.
He specialized in intelligence gathering and torture as he was trained by in Mogadishu by East German spy agency in the 70th.
His family live in Germany as refugees while he is one of the richest man in Somalia.
"Farah is responsible for the collection of extortion money for al shabab and he is the last economic solace for this dirty agency,” another anonymous trader in Mogadisho said.
Reports say if things went wrong the situation is overseen by Ahmednur Jumale, the owner of Hormuud Telecom in Somalia.
Mr Farah is a business. partner of Ahmednur Ali Jumale who was put in the list of international terror group after 11 September attack in United States.
But he was hastily removed from the list but Jumale is never clean from terror business.
Mr Mohamed Adan Farah. traveling with a Djiboutian passport in order to hide his Somali connection. Or trail.
Mr Mohamed Adan and Ahmednur Jumale hail from Duduble Subclan which are dominate in Al-Shabaab.
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Sunatimes.com - Somalia's terror group known as Al-shabab is making express money collection from business community by making threats to kill those who disobey their orders and fail to pay "Islamic Taxation."