raadamiir Posted January 16, 2007 Finally the Government is taking the steps needed to remove this guy, Who doesn't seem to understand his job. He acts like he is the President of Somalia. Who on Earth Asked him to Travel around the world, that isn't part of his job. He has been gone from Baidoa now for 2 months and half for what reason? He is the Speaker of Parliament. -------------------------------------------------- Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP) - Somali lawmakers were Tuesday planning to vote out the maverick parliament speaker who brokered unauthorised talks with the now-vanquished Islamist movement last November. The MPs, gathered at the government's provisional base in Baidoa, said they would present a motion Wednesday to remove Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, whose overtures to the Islamists were frowned upon by the weak transitional government after their own negotiations collapsed the same month. "I think many members of parliament are in favour of the motion. I can tell you there are more than 100 MPs who are pleased with the motion," said Madobe Nunow, an MP. "It will be passed," he told AFP from the central town of Baidoa, which is home to the 275-member clan-based assembly. According to the country's transitional charter, the motion has to be approved by a simple majority of members present during debate. "The motion has not yet been presented in the parliament. But if this motion is passed the speaker will lose his post because he is out of the country representing nobody," said Osman Elmi Boqore, the second deputy speaker. Aden, an influential politician, is currently in Brussels to meet officials from the Somalia Contact Group, an international panel that is rallying world support for efforts aimed at restoring lasting peace in the lawless African nation. Somali watchers have said that a possible ouster of Aden would further polarise the government and parliament, whose formation is based on a complex power-sharing alliance among fractious clans. Aden was seen as a factor for the participation of the large ****** clan - dominant in the capital Mogadishu - in the govenment of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, himself from the ***** clan. In November, Aden made an unauthorised trip to Mogadishu to meet the Islamists in a bid to breathe life into the talks that collapsed earlier the same month. The talks failed after the Islamists insisted that Ethiopian troops deployed to back the government withdraw before opening the talks, a move the government rejected. The talks were the third round after previous accords were violated by both sides. The Islamists, who were recently defeated after heavy fighting with the Ethiopia-backed Somali government forces, had seized Mogadishu in June and rapidly expanded territory, further undermining the authority of the government. But since their ouster from Mogadishu, the seaside city has seen a surge in violence, some fatal, as residents rally in protests against the presence of the Ethiopian forces in the town since last month. Source: AFP, Jan 16, 2007 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
