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Mogadishu, (InsideSomalia.org) an official funeral was held on Tuesday in Mogadishu for the slain police officer Abdi Kahiye, say government official.
Men armed with pistols killed the official on Monday at Hamar Jajab district in his home near Somali Police Academy the latest in a series of attacks targeting the police force as Somalia's government struggles against an Islamic insurgency.
Government officials including Somali President Abdulahi Yusuf attended the funeral in which the president said that that Somali Police Academy will be named after General Abdi Kahiye, who was a well-known figure as the head of the ceremonial orchestra that entertains visiting officials and was considered well-connected politically.
Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein who was one of attendants has condemned the killing of General Abdi Kahiye who was promoted as the rank of general in the last 16 years of unrest of his effort to protect the police Academy.
"It was barbaric and cowardly attack and the culprits will be put before justice” said Premier Nur Adde.
A group of young men shot Abdi Kahiye several times in the head and chest late Monday near his house in the south of Mogadishu, police spokesman Abdullhi Sha'sha said.
"We have lost a great man," Sha'sha said.
Thousands of Somalis have been killed in fighting between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's shaky government over the past 12 months. The Islamists vowed to fight an insurgency after the Ethiopians dislodged them from power in December 2006.
More than 10 district commissioners and police officers have been killed in similar attacks in recent months.
Insurgents claim the responsibility of the killing of General Abdi Kahiye and insurgent's website the Qaadisiya.com said that "The slain Criminal' was targeted because of what they described as performing what they consider illegitimate and immoral, quoting information from the insurgents
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