Luq police chief Siyad Abdikadir Mohamed said the man in question was the commander of al-Shabaab fighters in Bay region’s Dinsor district and had surrendered with his AK-47.
The police chief welcomed Mohamed’s surrender and called on other fighters to defect.
Dozens of al-Shabaab members, including former al-Shabaab intelligence chief Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi, have surrendered to the Somali government, which previously offered amnesty tofighters who lay down their arms and defect to the government.
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