Somali National Army (SNA) chief had been sent packing.
The federal government announced the sacking of Brig. Gen. Odawaa Yusuf Rageh on Monday.
His sacking came as a sudden shock.
At the moment, the grounds for his sacking remain unknown.
However, reports from certain quarters indicate that he might have been sacked because of the setbacks encountered in the first phase of the war on Al-Shabaab.