AllAfrica
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
In a statement given following the recent
suicide attack in Mogadishu, Somalia's Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon
underlined that the attack would not distract Somalia from its state
building activities.
"These misguided attempts to derail us will have no effect", the
Prime Minister said. "We have made far too much progress to regress to
the bad old days. Peace, stability and business are the order of the
day". Sending his condolences to the victims of the terrorist attack he
said, "Somalis will join me in sending my condolences to those who were
killed or wounded in this futile attack". He added, "The truth is that
daily life is more peaceful and Mogadishu is more secure than it has
been for over 20 years". "New Somali businesses are opening almost daily
as our brothers and sisters from the Diaspora vote with their feet and
return to Mogadishu". The Prime Minister noted that the enemies of
peace, who had already been driven out of the capital, were being pushed
back across Somalia and were on their way out.
Yesterday's (March 18) suicide attack took place close to the
National Theatre in the Hamarweyne district of the capital when a car
bomber drove into the path of a passenger bus. At least 10 people were
killed and 15 wounded.