Somalia family living in pain, fear

A SOMALIAN woman and her children are living in fear after her husband went into hiding following his release from a 54-day police custody without a charge.

On September 21, 2019 law enforcement officers picked up the Somalian Hasan Sangab from his home in Emmasdale around 04:00 hours and took him to Misisi police post where he was detained until November 14, 2019 when High Court Judge Maria Mapani Kawimbe ordered his release on a habeas corpus. However, the same day he was released armed plain clothes officers went to his house in an attempt to re-arrest him but they did not find him and he has been in hiding since then. In an interview, Mr. Sangab’s wife Sadia Adan, a Somalian of Kenya origin, said the officers were not happy with her husband’s release from custody and wanted to take him away by force. “They got four mobile phones, a laptop, visa card, our children’s birth certificates and my documents. Now that they got his visa card and my husband is not here, no one is supporting me. I have to pay rentals, I have to pay school fees, children need something and where am I going to find all these things? “They were about or 11, they did not even knock on the gate and they just jumped over the wall fence. They did not give reasons why they took away all those things. They did not produce identity cards to prove that they were police officers,” Ms. Adan said. She said the officers searched for her husband as if he had just escaped from custody yet he was released on a habeas corpus.