From Prisoner to Minister
Written by: Mohamed Abdifitah Mohamoud (Ameen Guuleed) August 2, 2022 The new Somali prime Minister Hamze Abdi barre appointed Mukhtar Robow as the Minster of Endowment and Religious affairs, Mukhtar Robow who is also known as Abu Mansur had a bounty of $5 million on his head and he was the second most important leader of the terrorist group Al-Shabaab, He defected from the group in 2017 after long unsolved dispute between him and his seniors including the formal leader of the group Ahmed Godane who was later killed by the US drones on September 2014 near the south coastal town of Barawe. Mukhtar Robow’s defection in 2017 was hailed and praised by the Somali government but later he was detained and was under house arrest since 2017 till h e was appointed as member of the Somali minister’s cabinet today, He was attacked in Baidoa by the Somali government forces a combined with Ethiopian Soldiers as per reports and after short time clashes between the ...