Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org)-Heavily armed troops from Somali government have entered inside the house of former TNG President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan on Saturday witnesses said.

Eyewitnesses said that the guards of the house were forced to open under duress the gate of the house where armed troops have poured into inside the house.

It’s yet unknown whether items were looted from the house.

It’s the third the government troops have entered in the home of former Somalia president Abdi Qasim Salad Hassan.

Abdi qasim was the president of the former TNG government has been given the mandate for three years during the conference in Neighboring Djibouti in which the government was supposed to restore the rule of law back to Somalia and prepare a multiparty system for the election of a government, but has failed to extend its influence throughout the country.

His government controlled parts of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, with the rest of the country being under the control of various warlords.

The mandate of his former transitional national government expired in August 2003 and Abdiqasim withdrew from the talks aimed at forming a new government shortly before the mandate expired.

The Prime Minister of his government Hassan Abshir Farah accused him of trying to make the talks fail to extend his time in office, resulting in the prime minister's dismissal by Abdiq

However, Abdiqasim pledged to step aside to make way for a constitutionally-elected leader. Abdiqasim was a candidate for the presidency of the new national unity government, but he was not among the 3 candidates who passed the 1st round of voting. He left office peacefully several days after the election.