A top official of Somalia's Hizbul Islam has lambasted his colleagues over the war against Al-Shabaab in southern Somalia.

Sheikh Farhan Abdi Ali Moge, who was recently appointed the groups chairman in Gedo region, accused his fellow group members Sheikh Ahmed Madobe and Sheikh Mohammed Maalin executing foreign-backed agendas to destabilize Somali Islamists.

"The war Sheikh Ahmed Madobe is waging was planned in Kenya and Ethiopia and backed by the Transitional Federal Government. It is meant to cripple the strength of Islamist in Somalia," he said.

"I am also categorically pointing accusing fingers on Sheikh Mohammed Maalin, the groups Press Secretary who supports Sheikh Madobe agendas of putting the group at loggerheads with Al-Shabaab," he added.

His remarks come days after Sheikh Ahmed Madobe described Al-Shabaab as his number one enemy, vowing to wipe it out of the country.

Al-Shabaab, which broke ranks with Hizbul Islam over the control of southern Somali regions, has all along being insisting that Madobe is an Ethiopian-backed individual has is out there to wreak chaos amongst the Islamists.