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Somaliland Police Stops the Waddani-called Demonstration on Security, Legality Grounds.

The Somaliland Police Commissioner, Brigadier-General Mohamed Adan Sanqadhi ‘Dabagale’, urged Waddani supporters not to heed their leader’s call for a massive demonstration tomorrow, Monday. The police commander stated that the protest demonstration Waddani Chairman, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi ‘Irro’, asked his followers to come out to in the capital, Hargeisa, and congregate at the national, opposition party’s head office, was not only a threat to security but unconstitutional since permission was neither sought nor granted. “Somaliland has no record of peaceful demonstrations where the event starts peacefully, ends peacefully. There usually, among the demonstrators, criminal elements mingle turning the occasion to a violent, regrettable confrontation between the law enforcement officers and stone-throwing demonstrators,” he said in a televised statement. Chairman Irro, in another press conference, Sunday, expressed regret that President Musa Bihi Abdi, went back on an e