So­ma­li­a’s se­cu­rity agen­cies have com­pleted their mur­der in­ves­ti­ga­tions into the killing of a So­mali MP in a drive-by shoot­ing in Mo­gadishu on Sat­ur­day, of­fi­cials told Sun­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a se­nior se­cu­rity of­fi­cials, the in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­cluded that So­mali mil­i­tary sol­diers were be­hind the mur­der of Yusuf Dirir, a So­mali leg­is­la­tor and wound­ing an­other leg­is­la­tor Ab­dalla Boss in the at­tack.

The of­fi­cials who asked not be named be­cause they were not au­tho­rized to talk to the me­dia that the shoot­ing took place af­ter the car in which MPs were trav­el­ling de­nied an over­tak­ing chance for a car car­ry­ing mil­i­tary sol­diers, prompt­ing sol­diers to take a wrong line and start shoot­ing the MPs.

So­mali of­fi­cials’ con­voys of­ten ha­rass mo­torists us­ing the streets across the city, with sol­diers at times fire at cars while oth­ers tor­ture dri­vers who fail to let them over­take other cars.

Its un­clear if the `its were ar­rested, how­ever, the coun­try’s leg­isla­tive body mem­bers are of­ten tar­geted by Al-Shabab mil­i­tants in at­tacks, largely drive-by shoot­ings.

The of­fi­cial dis­missed the Al-Qaeda linked group’s claims of be­ing be­hind the at­tack as ‘false’.

The mo­tive be­hind the at­tack re­mains un­clear.

The de­vel­op­ment is a wor­ry­ing news in the So­mali cap­i­tal where some res­i­dents con­sider some of the sol­diers as ‘dou­ble-agents’ who may turn guns to their com­rades.

Mis­trust deep­ened af­ter the gov­ern­ment also in­te­grated many ex-mil­i­tants into its army, lead­ing to crit­i­cism of in­her­ent risks of sleeper cell at­tacks by mil­i­tants re­cruited with­out vet­ting.

So­ma­li­a’s gov­ern­ment is strug­gling to stop deadly at­tacks by Al-Shabab fight­ers by de­ploy­ing troops across the cap­i­tal, in­spect­ing cars and frisk pas­sen­gers, a move the city res­i­dents be­lieve con­tributed to the re­cent de­cline of the sub­se­quent mil­i­tants at­tacks.