Breaking news from El Wak central Gharri region By Gur Gharri GSG News Contributor: September 22, 2008

On Saturday Sept. 20, 2008, a Somali alliance group consisting of Ogaden, Degodia, and Murale chaired by Mohamed Haji Yusuf, gave the Gharri people an ultimatum to allow the Murale settle in El Wak and Wargadud. It was alleged that Mr. Yusuf Haji who is minister of Kenya’s defense force and butcher of Malka Mari and Waqala, told the Gharri people they must allow the Murale people to settle in El Wak, and Wargadud. He threaten the Gharri people who were at the meeting, and said if the Gharri people do not accept his order, he will use military personnel and remove all the Gharri citizens from their land and put them in concentration camps and settle the murale clans there. But the Gharri people have refused to agree to such demand. So, he gave the Gharri people three days to rethink and get back to him with their final answer on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008.

Previously, the Kenyan internal security minister Mr. Saitoti have held a meeting between the Gharri and the Murale clansmen but, the meeting fell apart because the murale were demanding to be given a portion of the Gharri grazing land. But, Mr. Yusuf Haji took the case out of internal security hands saying that he will take care of it or handle it in the Somali traditional way of solving disputes, but he emerged not as a Somali elder but, as a powerful military commander in chief.

As soon as his demand and ultimatum were refused, a group of Somali warlord came to El Waq Somalia, as a form of force carrying technical wagen and invaded Buru Hatche under false pretense calling themselves Al Shababa. But, later on we learned that they are not associated with Al Shababa, but they are parts of Yusuf Haji’s Ethnic gangsters and broken warlords that were fleeing from Kisymanyo. They are part of the same group that attacked Garissa police station freeing criminal gangsters a while ago. But, this time they were hired by the Murale MP and Yusuf Haji group.

They too will be dealt with swiftly regardless of how many technical wagons they have in their possession. So, we will let you know if Yusuf Haji and his cronies carry on their rhetoric threat.