Somalia: President Warns MPs
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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
28 August 2008
Posted to the web 28 August 2008
Baidoa
Speaking ahead of the legislative body members in Baidoa town the seat of the Somali parliament the pressident of the transitional government Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has announced that the parliament is responsible the weakness of the government.
He added that they put in order frenzied suggestions when the TFG attempts to take steps forward.
"You MPs are responsible for the Achilles' heel of the government" Yusuf animatedly said.
When the president hinted those remarks the MPs have clapped opposing the president's remarks.
President Abdullahi Yusuf said the differences between him and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein was resolved after more than a week of talks mediated by Ethiopian authorities in Addis Ababa, reports reaching here said.
The Somali president, flanked by the prime minister and the speaker of the Somali national parliament, arrived amid tight security Wednesday in the southern town of Baidoa, the seat of the transitional national parliament.
"We solved everything between me and the prime minister, as you can see we have come here (in Baidoa) together," Yusuf told reporters at his residence in Baidoa, 250 km southwest of Mogadishu.
The president also condemned recent attacks on the houses of a number of members of parliament including the deputy speaker and a lawmaker whose son and a bodyguard were killed in a grenade attack Tuesday night.
Festering disagreement between the two senior Somali leaders escalated last month after Hussein sacked the mayor of Mogadishu, a close ally of the president, who reinstated the mayor in a decree revoking the prime minister's decision as unconstitutional.
Some pro-president ministers in the cabinet of Hussein's government resigned, accusing the premier of incompetence and misuse of state funds.
The two leaders are expected to brief the Somali national parliament Thursday about their agreement, the content of which has not been officially released.
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Lawmakers are also due to debated and anticipated to vote on the motion put forward by nearly 80 legislators seeking to remove the prime minister for alleged embezzlement of government money within the upcoming days.
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