Somaliland's House of Representatives has approved a resolution calling for justice and further action over the 2024 death in Mogadishu of Abdinasir Muse Abdirahman Dahable, an employee of Somalia's civil aviation system, according to Somaliland Post and other regional reporting.
Somaliland Post reported that 42 lawmakers were present for the vote on Monday, September 21, and that 41 voted in favor while the speaker did not participate in the vote. Second Deputy Speaker Ali Hamud Jibril presented the resolution and said the House considered protection of Somaliland citizens a constitutional responsibility.
The resolution makes serious allegations about responsibility for Dahable's death and names Somali officials. Those allegations are parliamentary claims, not independently established findings. Somaliland Post itself noted that the accusations would require an independent investigation and supporting evidence before individual responsibility could be established.
What is established about the 2024 case
Dahable was 32 and worked in Somalia's civil aviation sector. His body was found in Mogadishu in February 2024. Somali police said at the time that the body had been found in the Wadajir district, that six people had been detained in connection with the case and that an investigation was underway.
The public record reviewed by PUNT NEWS does not establish a final judicial determination of how Dahable died or who was legally responsible. Later political and media accounts have used stronger language and attributed motives or responsibility to particular actors. Those claims should be separated from the narrower police record and from any court finding.
The new development is institutional rather than forensic. A legislative chamber in Somaliland has formally returned the case to the political agenda and voted on a resolution seeking accountability. That creates a new official record without resolving the underlying criminal questions.
What the resolution does
Regional reports say the House called on international and local human-rights organizations to support efforts to establish accountability. The resolution reflects concern among Somaliland lawmakers about a death involving a person they identify as originating from Somaliland and working within a federal Somali institution.
Caasimada Online and Hiiraan Online also reported that the resolution was presented to the House and that the second deputy speaker framed the matter as part of the chamber's responsibility to protect citizens. Somaliland Post went further and reported that the resolution was approved by 41 of 42 lawmakers present.
The distinction between presentation and approval matters because a proposed resolution and an adopted resolution carry different institutional weight. The later and more specific Somaliland Post account provides a vote total and describes approval. PUNT NEWS therefore treats the resolution as adopted while identifying the source for that procedural fact.
Allegations require a different standard
The resolution reportedly attributes responsibility to named senior Somali officials. PUNT NEWS does not adopt those allegations as findings. No evidence reviewed for this report independently proves that the named officials ordered, caused or participated in Dahable's death.
A parliamentary vote can establish the position of the chamber. It cannot substitute for forensic evidence, witness testimony, documentary records, prosecutorial review or a judicial process. That distinction is especially important because the case sits within a wider political dispute between Somaliland and Somalia's federal government.
Somali police statements from 2024 are likewise limited. The arrest of suspects establishes that authorities opened an investigation and detained people for questioning or suspicion; it does not by itself establish guilt. PUNT NEWS has not located a final public court judgment resolving the case.
Why the case has returned
The resolution brings Dahable's death back into public debate more than two years after it occurred. Aviation administration has itself been a recurring area of dispute between Hargeisa and Mogadishu, including questions of airspace management, institutional authority and the status of aviation personnel. Dahable's employment therefore gives the case an institutional context beyond an ordinary criminal investigation.
That context does not establish motive. It helps explain why Somaliland lawmakers view the case as politically significant and why allegations surrounding the death have remained contested. A credible investigation would need to separate employment and political background from evidence directly connected to the death.
What would materially advance the record
The most important next evidence would come from investigative files, autopsy or forensic records, charging documents, witness testimony or a court decision. A public response from Somalia's federal authorities to the new resolution would also clarify whether the government considers the earlier investigation closed, active or incomplete.
The Somaliland House has now created a formal political demand for further accountability. That is a verifiable institutional act. The chamber's allegations concerning individual responsibility remain allegations. Keeping those two propositions separate is essential to reporting a case in which political claims have moved faster than the publicly available judicial record.
The resolution therefore changes the status of the issue in one clear way: Dahable's death is again an active matter before a political institution. It does not, by itself, resolve how he died or who bears legal responsibility.