Minister 'On Behalf of TFG President, We Are Apologizing for Ahlu Sunna Clerics'

Kampala — Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si'ad known as (Inda'adde), the minister of state of the transitional government for the defense ministry has held press conference through the telephone in Kampala on Thursday and apologized the Islamic clerics of Ahlu sunna Waljama'a for the TFG president's statement on the clerics recently.

"On behalf of the voice of the transitional Federal Government president Sharif Sheik Ahmed, we are apologizing for the Islamic clerics of Ahlu sunna Waljama'a for statement that the Somali president suggested recently. Really are apologizing our brothers Ahlu sunna Waljama'a who infuriated the president's speech and demanded to be responded by the officials of the government as soon as possible," said Sheik Yusuf Mohamed.

Sheik Yusud Mohamed Si'ad talked more on the allegation of the Islamic clerics of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a who demanded from the government officials to react the president's statement which was that Ahlu sunna Waljama'a clerics and the other Islamist organizations against the TFG were same.

The Minster had justified for the Ahlus Sunna clerics on the statement of president Sharif Sheik Ahmed saying that Ahlu sunna Waljama'a was different from the other Islamic clerics who are fighting against the TFG saying that they were not even same pointing out that it was good for them to display their accusations through the media.

He also said it was better for the clerics to contact with them instead of accusing through the media adding that the some of the weapon which they are fighting was belonged by him.


On the other hand he also talked a statement released by one of the MPs about the new dispute between the TFG and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a saying that he spoke as the oppositions indicating that the committee for the polite of the transitional government were required to take a decision from statement he gave to the journalists.

The disagreement between the transitional government and the Islamic clerics of Ahlu sunna Waljama'a comes as the TGP president Sharif Sheik Ahmed compared Ahlu sunna with the other Islamists who are fighting against the transitional government in the country which resulted the clerics to oppose it strongly and held a time for the TFG to respond it quickly.

The disagreement between the transitional government and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a comes as the TFG is fighting with the Islamist fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen and Hisbul Islam who are controlling most of southern Somalia including the capital Mogadishu.