Somalia: President Tells of Peace Deal With PM
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The Nation (Nairobi)
28 August 2008
Posted to the web 29 August 2008
Abdulkadir Khalif
Mogadishu
President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has said that the differences between him and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein Adde have been solved.
Mr Yusuf made the comments upon return to Baidoa, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he met for nearly two weeks with Premier Adde.
Speaking at the plenary of the Transitional Federal Parliament today, President Yusuf emphasised that the legislators had a pivotal role in the affairs of the country.
He said that the country's constitutional crisis must be cleared to achieve democratic governance.
"My main objective in forty years of struggle has been to achieve democracy for Somalia," said the president while addressing the over 200 parliamentarians.
President Yusuf and Prime Minister Nur Adde left Mogadishu on August 15 following a dispute over how to run the affairs of the state. The crisis took a new twist when PM Nur Adde sacked the Mayor of Mogadishu, a formerly powerful warlord, Mohamed Omar Habeb alias Mohamed Dhere.
The president described the dismissal of the mayor as unconstitutional because he argued that only he had the appointing responsibility while the PM and Cabinet had supervisory powers.
President Yusuf reaffirmed Mohamed Dhere as the legitimate mayor.
Soon afterwards, PM Nur Adde appointed several ministers without consulting President Yusuf, a move that heightened the tension.
But, parliamentarians in Baidoa town, 240 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu seemed to ignore the agreement by President Yusuf and PM Nur Adde.
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A section of the MPs want to go ahead with a motion against PM Nur Adde to withdraw confidence in his government while others want to impeach President Yusuf. This is one of the most serious constitutional crises since the formation of the Transitional Federal Government in Nairobi, Kenya in 2004.
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