Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade
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Muhammad Ibrhaim Habsade, is former soilder, and current Transport minister in the Somali Transitional Fedral Government
Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Habsade was born in Tosweyne village of Berdale district of Bay Region. He served in the military of Siad Barre and was located in nothern Region of Somalia, mainly in Hargeisa and Buro. He follows the sufi sect of Islam,particularly Sheikh Banani Tariqah. He was among the leaders who laid the foudations of RRA (Rahanweyn Resistance Army)established in Jafay in the ourskirts of Berdale district late 1995.
Prior to Aideed's invasion of Baidoa on 17th September 1995, the Leysan sub clan were almost all the employees of the UNOSOM and the relief Service Organisation. The Al- Ahli Company,run by Aliyow Wardere from the Leysan subclan and his partner Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan whose Mother is from Leysan, had monopoly power in signing contract with the the Releif Service Organisation whıch were stationed in Baidoa to offer aid to the victims of the famine which hit the area between Juba and Shabelle Regions of Somalia.
Thus most of the Relief Services Organisation employees were from the Leysan, Catholic Relief Services was a good example of this. This made the other Rahanwien subclans feel marginalised, and this prompted frequent clashes between the Leysan and Harin,Leysan and Jiron,and eventually Leysan and Eelay in September 1995. The Leysan captured the Eelay inhabited town of Burhakaba. The Eelay elders resorted to Mohamed Farah Aidid and asked him to attack Baidoa. As a result of this Baidoa fell in the hands of Aideed Sunday morning on 17 September 1995. Most of the Rahanwein clans initially welcomed Aideed with the exception of the Leysan and Hadame.The Harin and Elay sided with Aideed.The ousted leaders of the Leysan including Habsade resorted to armed resistence to free Baidoa from Aideed, and together with other Rahanwein politicians founded RRA in Jaffay and appointed Abdullahi Mohamoud Leysan 'Abdullahi Tawo' the chairman.
Mr.Habsade opposed the then leader of RRA, Mr.Abdulahi -Tawo. According to Habsade's view point, his subclan Leysan, which was accused of marginalising the other subclans of Rahanwein during the presence of UNOSOM, was the target of Aideed's invasion of Baidoa.Therefore, he viewed that without the help of other Rahanwein subclans,they will not achieve their goals of liberating Baidoa. He opposed Mr.tawo and worked hard to appoint Col.Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud of the Harin subclan to the leadership of RRA. This move won the support he expected from other subclans, but after the liberation of Baidoa in 1999, his tribe held him responsible for their third positon of RRA leadership.
In 2002,Habsade, along with Sheikh Aden Madobe, opposed Shatigudud when he declared himself the president of the short-lived semi-autonomous government of Shouthwestern. Mr.Habsade opposed the relocation of the TFG to Baidoa,and ousted Sheikh Aden Madobe and Shatigudud,thus allying himself with the Mogadishu warlords simply because he didn't find his name in the cabinet.
Habsade is currently the Transport minister of Transitional Federal government.
