Saeed Sulub Mohamed, the minister of livestock for Somaliland, was stoned by enraged attendees at the funeral of three individuals who died in political protests in Hargeisa on August 11.
On social media, a video showing the minister being stoned was very popular. The video also shows Mohamed’s bodyguards using live ammunition to deter potential attackers.
Uncertainty surrounds whether anyone was seriously hurt during the brawl.
Numerous mourners wearing red headbands started throwing stones at the minister after the funeral.
The minister managed to escape the crowd, although it appears that his car sustained damage.
Saeed Sulub Mohamed, the minister of livestock for Somaliland, claimed that the Waddani party’s leaders were responsible for the assault on the party’s members.
The pastor claimed that when he first arrived at the funeral, the mourners warmly welcomed him. The young people were instructed to throw pebbles at him when the Waddani leaders arrived at the burial place.
Minister Mohamed said, “We greeted one another, then the (Waddani) party leaders came and organised a gathering and told their supporters to attack me.
The minister continued by saying that he had instructed his security to refrain from firing at bystanders.
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, also known as “Irro,” the leader of the Waddani party, was held responsible for the brawl, according to Mohamed.
The protestors’ fatalities, which were caused by police shootings when rallies grew violent, were attributed to the administration by the opposition parties. On Thursday, the demonstrators urged the holding of presidential elections in November.
Nearly 100 individuals were hurt during the protests, according to a local police spokesman.
The majority of the injured were security forces, who were “attacked with clubs, metal bars, and stones,” the president of Somaliland, Muse Bihi Abdi, wrote in a late-night Facebook post on Thursday.
The reports of violence during protests in the capital of Somaliland prompted the international community to release an unified statement expressing “deep concern.”
Mohamed ascribed the altercation to Waddani.
In an united statement, the international community expressed “grave concern” about allegations of violence during protests in the city of Somaliland.