 Officials from Somalia's federal government have been implicated in the supply of arms to Al-Shabab.In a report written by the "UN's Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group", The UN report concluded that high level officials were actively involved in arms smuggling to terrorist militants in Somalia  The Federal Government of Somalia has also been actively involved in recruiting key Al-Shabaab members into high level government positions.Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi, who was the Intelligence Chief of Al-Shabaabs security wing was given the Lead Position of Somalias National Intelligence Security Agency(NISA).