# Mohamud Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji (Maxamuud Siraaji)

> Mohamud Siraji: Jubaland MP in Somalia's House of the People from 2018, raised in Dadaab, chair of the budget and finance committee from December 2018.

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## Who is he?

Mohamud Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji is a Somali politician elected for [Jubaland](/en/states/jubaland/) to the House of the People of the Federal Parliament on 15 February 2018 ([Radio Dalsan, "Slain minister Siraji's brother Mohamud wins Jubbaland by-election"](https://radiodalsan.com/en/slain-minister-sirajis-brother-mohamud-wins-jubbaland-by-election/)). He is the younger brother of Abbas Abdullahi [Sheikh](/en/regions/sheikh/) Siraji, minister of public works and reconstruction, who was shot dead in Mogadishu in May 2017 ([The New York Times, 4 May 2017](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/world/africa/abbas-abdullahi-sheikh-siraji-shot-somalia.html)).

## Early life

When he was a small child his family fled the civil war and moved to the [Dadaab refugee camps](/en/diaspora/dadaab-and-kenya-camps/) in north-eastern Kenya, through Liboi ([Wikipedia, Mohamud Siraji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamud_Siraji); [CBC, "Refugee camp influx", 24 July 2011](http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2068112236)). He went to primary and secondary school in Ifo camp, at Dadaab, and on the strength of his national exam results won a scholarship to study commerce at York University in [Toronto](/en/diaspora/toronto/) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamud_Siraji)). He was active in student organisations there (same source).

## The 2018 by-election

His brother Abbas, a former refugee seen as a "rising star", was killed in May 2017 ([The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/world/africa/abbas-abdullahi-sheikh-siraji-shot-somalia.html)). After a nine-month wait for the by-election, Mohamud won the vacated seat on 15 February 2018 ([Halbeeg News, 15 February 2018](https://en.halbeeg.com/2018/02/15/mohamud-siraaji-wins-the-parliamentary-seat-vacated-by-his-slain-brother/)).

## In the House

On 26 December 2018 he was elected chair of the House committee on budget, finance, planning and oversight of public institutions ([Goobjoog News, 26 December 2018](https://goobjoog.com/english/mohamud-siraji-appointed-as-the-new-chairman-finance-committee/)). The committee's earlier leaders had been removed after a report claiming more than $42 million was missing from finance ministry accounts ([The African Exponent](https://www.africanexponent.com/post/9418-somalia-finance-ministry-under-fire-over-unaccounted-42million)); the parliament later apologised, calling that report wrong ([The African Exponent](https://www.africanexponent.com/post/9438-deputy-speaker-of-somalia-parliament-says-debate-on-missing-funds-totally-over-usd-40m-was-a-mistake)).

In October 2018 he spoke at the Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition in Madrid ([FAO](http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/global-parliamentary-summit/news-in-the-media/detail-events/en/c/1161395/)), and he then joined the House's food security and nutrition committee, formed in March 2019, and the East Africa Parliamentary Alliance on Food Security and Nutrition ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamud_Siraji); [EAPA FSN](https://eapa-fsn.org/)).

## In short

A Dadaab-raised Jubaland MP who took his slain brother's seat in 2018 and chaired the House finance committee.

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