Garowe (Alshahid) – The authority of the semiautonomous Puntland has on Thursday strongly condemned the UN report which links top officials in Puntland government with piracy.
A press statement from Puntland’s information minister Mr. Abdihakim Ahmed Guled said that the authority of Puntland was shocked to hear that the report accused Puntland leaders with participating in piracy activities while they were trying hard to stop the vice.
The statement claimed that the report was made by anti-Puntland elements who want to mess the reputation of Puntland.
Puntland called for the Security Council of the UN to make an investigation in to the reported and pledged that Puntland will collaborate with the investigating team.
The report which will be taken to the UN secretary general’s office next week, accuses some of the top officials in Puntland authority of being part of the pirates network thus acquiring huge sums of money from the activity.
