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Attack on a hotel in Somalia: the government will assume its responsibilities, promises the Prime Minister

"There will be responsibilities in government, no one in government will escape (his) responsibility.

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Attack on a hotel in Somalia: the government will assume its responsibilities, promises the Prime Minister

"There will be responsibilities in government, no one in government will escape (his) responsibility. Anyone who has neglected the responsibility given to him will be held accountable," Hamza Abdi Barre said on Sunday evening, after visited the wounded from the attack in a hospital in Mogadishu.

"There is only one choice here: either we allow the shebabs - the children of hell - to live, or we live. We cannot live together," he said.

"If their intention is to deter the courage of the Somali people who have decided to fight them, it will never happen and the fight against them has already started in several places," he said.

"I call on the people of Somalia to unite to fight against the enemy and to unite to free themselves so that what they did there will never happen again," he added.

Radical Islamists Shebab, a group linked to Al-Qaeda that has been fighting the Somali government for 15 years, launched a major attack on the Hayat hotel in the capital Mogadishu on Friday evening, which ended on Saturday night to Sunday after an intervention by security forces.

The Minister of Health spoke on Sunday afternoon of a balance sheet "at this stage" of 21 dead and 117 injured.

This attack is the bloodiest since the mid-May election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and the inauguration of the government in early August.

One of the founders and former commander of the Shebab movement, now Minister of Religious Affairs, Muktar Robow, alias Abu Mansour, condemned the attack and called on the fighters to abandon the group.

"I call on them to repent. A person has the ability to renounce their wrongs as long as they live," he said.

"Those who send you to do this, I know many and they have their children in the University of Mogadishu and would not send them to do this work. So I call on you to beware, to repent, to leave them and to return to your society because there are still chances, he continued.

"Society should know that it is in its interest to unite to fight against them," he added.

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