(SomaliNet) Somalia’s interim president Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed has on Sunday officially opened a state-run radio that has gone on air today covering throughout Somalia, the information minister of the transitional Federal government Ali Ahmed Jama known as ‘Jangali’ said. The president, who addressed through the new government radio which is called ‘Bay Radio voice of Somalia republic, cast condemnations on Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, the leader of Islamic Courts Union narrating about what passed by describing him as a man who wrongly employs the Islamic religion as his will. “In June 1992 Sheik Aweys came to Puntland regions and fought with my militia proclaiming for the Islamic religion sake but was exercising in clan system... it was widely known what happened to him, I kicked him off the region in my control,” Mr. Yusuf said in his opening address. “It is the fourth time that Aweys and his terrorist group attempt to engage war through Islam. He is a really a man of many shorts saying we are the right political part clamoring for outside terrorists in the country and that is in the interest of the Somalia people. These insurgents do not give care to whether all Somalia go to vanish or not, it is fact that the terrorist group is making life more difficult,” said president Yusuf.
He said he thinks that the Somali community is fully aware of what Aweys’s group holds has nothing to do with the public interest. “Now I am the president of Somalia and he is belonging to the international terrorists and he will lastly test the same defeat as faced earlier and flee,” Yusuf said.
Bay Radio Voice of Somalia republic can be heard through short waves (SW1- 49 band and SW2 – 41 band) and FM 95.2 Mz. Hassan Isse Ali known as ‘Korea’ was nominated for the general director of information ministry who had worked in Radio Mogadishu and Radio Hargeisa in 1980s.
Abdirahman Nor Mohamed Dinari, the government spokesman held today press conference inside Radio Bay station briefing about the battles in four fronts in Bay, Hiran and Mudug regions. He said the government forces crushed and burnt several war vehicles from what he called ‘The Islamist terrorists’ killing and injuring more insurgents. “Our troops have fully taken over the control of Beledwein in Hiran and Bandiredley in Mudug region,” Dinari said. Both rival sides are claiming victories over the latest clashes which entered the sixth day.