Families evicted in 2013 near Aden Adde airport demand relocation

Families who were forcibly evicted in 2013 from areas near Aden Adde Airport in Mogadishu have called on the government to resettle them noting their eviction had robbed them of livelihoods.

The families who held demonstrations in Mogadishu following reports the land they once stayed in was now being developed by individuals destroyed some structures which were being put up.

“A government can evict people from a land but giving the land to another people is unjust and deception. It is not right for the incumbent government not set right old violations” one of the protesters said.

The protesters claimed that members in the current federal parliament and others in senior government positions were given the land after they were evicted.

“We tell the leaders in government to regain for us the land taken forcefully from us. We have been reduced into internally displaced persons yet we have documents to support our ownership. We have been moved out by bulldozers” said a woman protester.

The evictions happened during the time of mayor Ahmed Noor Tarzan who is now President Mohamed Farmaajo’s political advisor.

“We were promised to be given another land but nothing has happened since then and we are left in the cold” another protester said as they destroyed a structure in Ventuno area near the airport.

The protesters said that they already met with the current mayor of Mogadishu and proposed to him to appoint a commission on the land issue.