[1] Mohamud is the younger brother of the late Minister for Public Works and Reconstruction Abass Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji.
Born to a religious family, Mohamud spent a great deal of his life living in Dadaab Refugee camps of North Eastern Kenya.
[2] At a tender age of 3, Siraji's family moved to Kenya's Dadaab camps via Liboi seeking refuge from the civil war in Somalia.
Mohamud completed both his primary and secondary school in Dadaab, Ifo Refugee camps and later proceeded to Toronto, Canada to Study Bachelor of Commerce at York University.
Public Financial Management (PFM) Act is one of the benchmarks that was set for the government of Somalia in order to qualify for debt relief by the IMF.
[12] Siraji who was spearheading the legislative aspect of the SMP debt relief process, tabled the PFM act for debating and pushed for it until it was approved by both houses and signed into law by the president on 25th Dec. 2019 [13] Public financial management (PFM) is critical to basic economic governance and essential in establishing the performance, legitimacy and accountability of functional states.
It underlies all government activity and incorporates all components of a country's budget cycle including: Ineffective public financial management systems hamper development and increase the risk of corruption.
Siraji who was at the time the chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee took the sole responsibility to fast track the passage of those bills in both houses of the parliament.
For a period of one year, Siraji and his committee tirelessly worked to meet all the benchmark set for the country in order to qualify the debt relief.
As announced by the IMF on their website, Somalia successfully met all the benchmarks and a such, qualified to receive a debt relief under the HIPC process- thanks to Siraji and the team that worked to make this happen.