Hargeysa, Somaliland, December 19, 2009 (SL Times) – The city of Hargeysa started a campaign to clear the city’s streets of illegal structures. Many of these structures are not only an eye sore and hazardous to the health of the city’s residents, they also, as explained by Hargeysa’s Mayor, constitute a security threat since no one knows who is inside them. The city government has however faced some resistance from the owners of these illegal structures which resulted in confrontations between staff who were carrying out the mayor’s instructions and the owners of these structures in the Ga’an Libah area.
The Mayor of Hargeysa, Eng. Hussein Mohamud Ji’ir announced that they plan to increase the number of police stations in the city. The mayor said the city has grown and the current numbers of police stations are not enough to take care of the people’s security. He added that his office, the police department and the neighborhood security committees discussed the matter and agreed about the need for more police stations in the capital’s neighborhoods. The first two police stations will be built in the Muhammad Haybe neighborhood.
The mayor and the city government may also have been responding to citizens’ complaints about the mounting amount of garbage and dirt in the city’s streets.
















 

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