{"id":267340,"date":"2024-12-18T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/18\/the-city-where-shopkeepers-fear-their-cctv-cameras-could-get-them-killed\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T11:05:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T11:05:35","slug":"the-city-where-shopkeepers-fear-their-cctv-cameras-could-get-them-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/18\/the-city-where-shopkeepers-fear-their-cctv-cameras-could-get-them-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"The city where shopkeepers fear their CCTV cameras could get them killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Shop owners in Somalia&#8217;s capital, Mogadishu, are caught between a rock and a hard place over a government directive that they install CCTV cameras outside their businesses to intensify surveillance of Islamist insurgents who have a strong presence in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The businessmen say if they put up the cameras they risk being gunned down by the al-Shabab insurgents, and if they do not, they could be arrested by the police.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has changed the names of the businessmen and homeowners for their own safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CCTV cameras are why you now see me at home,&#8221; says former shopkeeper Hamza Nuur, 48, as he sits on a sofa holding one of his children.<\/p>\n<p>He tells the BBC that he took the painful decision to sell his business to avoid incurring the wrath of either side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re told not to remove the cameras by one side and then you&#8217;re told to remove the cameras by the other side. Depending on the choice you make, you&#8217;ll either have a bullet or prison cell waiting for you,&#8221; Mr Nuur adds.<\/p>\n<p>The government issued a directive last year to shopkeepers to install CCTV cameras &#8211; at their own cost &#8211; to deter attacks by al-Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>Mogadishu&#8217;s Deputy Mayor Mohamed Ahmed Diriye tells the BBC Africa Daily podcast that the decision has paid off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There used to be four or five bombings per month in Mogadishu but that&#8217;s no longer the case,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>The government has now ordered residents to install the cameras outside homes and apartment blocks, raising fears among many people that al-Shabab could bring its war into their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Since October, al-Shabab has killed four businessmen in 10 attacks related to the installation of CCTV cameras, according to a leading violence monitoring group, Armed Conflict Location &amp; Event Data (Acled).<\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s directive was aimed at ultimately disrupting al-Shabab&#8217;s sources of funding as it extorts money out of shop owners, but the retaliatory attacks by the insurgents &#8220;have forced many businesses in Mogadishu&#8217;s main markets to close their doors for days&#8221;, Acled adds in a report published on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nuur says that at first he ignored the government&#8217;s directive but was forced to install the cameras after being confronted by members of the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried to explain to them I was just a poor man and didn&#8217;t want to get involved with the government but they got angry and began threatening me, saying they&#8217;ll ruin my life,&#8221; he tells the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nuur says that once he installed a CCTV camera, he began receiving phone calls from unrecognisable numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My body started shivering from the inside. I knew who it was,&#8221; he says, referring to al-Shabab operatives who have a well-entrenched spy network, allowing them to get information about civilians like Mr Nuur.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nuur says he changed his number, only for a young man to walk up to him in his shop one morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He lifted his shirt. He had a pistol in his waist. He ordered me to turn on my SIM card.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nuur says he acquiesced, and the phone rang, with the anonymous caller wanting to know whether &#8220;the government&#8217;s demands are more important to you than ours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know what to do. The young man with the pistol was standing there the whole time. I was thinking, once I hang up this phone call is he going to shoot. So, I whispered a prayer under my breath,&#8221; Mr Nuur adds.<\/p>\n<p>He says fortunately the man &#8220;walked out of the store without incident after I hung up the call&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nuur says he decided to sell his business after two shopkeepers were gunned down in October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is nothing more valuable than human life,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Critical of the government&#8217;s directive, Mr Nuur adds: &#8220;People trying to make ends meet are being pulled into a war against a powerful group that even the government has difficulties fighting. Just imagine how we feel as civilians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Diriye denies that businesses are shutting down or that owners are being forced to install CCTV cameras.<\/p>\n<p>However, he acknowledges that some businessmen have fears, but says the government does its best to reassure them and to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The city is calm and business is smooth,&#8221; Diriye adds.<\/p>\n<p>But Asiyo Mohamed Warsame tells the BBC that masked gunmen killed her 40-year-old brother Dahir Mohamed Warsame in his shop in Mogadishu&#8217;s Yaqshid district in October after he installed CCTV cameras under pressure from the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He left behind six children, with the youngest being only four months old,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Shopkeeper Ismael Hashi, 33, says he shut his business after anonymous calls from suspected al-Shabab operatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They knew my name plus more. 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