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Hawiye Sub-clan elders were due to hold the meeting at Makka Al Mukarama hotel to discuss Mogadishu status in power-sharing model of the next elections due to August, later this year.
Speaking to Radio Shabelle, Sheikh Aden Sheikh Muse, an elder at the hotel said some of the clan elders were brutally tortured by the NISA officers during the scuffle.
"NISA soldiers came us in the hotel, and tried to expel the elders, but a dispute broke out when we resisted their order,” said Muse during the interview.
Mogadishu status has been the focal point of a dispute overshadowed recent national consultation forums on the 2016 elections, which will be based on the clan power-sharing formula (4.5).
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