Somalia’s President asks the Prime Minister to Resign House—Somalia’s President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, asked the Prime Minister, Abdi Shirdoon, to resign after a disagreement on a new proposal to reshuffle the current ministers. According to the dispute between the two leaders came public Monday when the prime minister submitted his new list of ministers to the president. The president was unsettled when the proposal excluded members of the cabinet that are close to him. The list excluded the names of the current Foreign Affairs Minister, Fowzia Yusuf; Minister of Interior, Abdikarim Guleed; Minister of Natural Resources, Abdirazak Omar; Minister of Post and Telecommunication, Abdullahi Elmoge; and Minister of Presidency, Farah Abdulkadir. Sources say some of the ministers that were excluded from the new list were not cooperating with the prime minister’s office some months. Ali Khalif, a member of the parliament told the BBC Somali Service that the prime minister declined to resign. The prime minister was nominated by the president in Nov. 2012, and received a majority approval vote in the parliament—215 out of 275. As the Provisional Constitution states (see Article: 69, 90 and 100), the president has no right to dismiss the prime minister without the parliament’s approval (50+1). So the president to say I don’t agree with your new list of ministers so you have to resign is unconstitutional, and it’s not what the Somali public expects from this president. It’s the prime minister’s authority to fire or hire any minister under his cabinet as he sees fit. The prime minister should demand the president if he doesn’t like his way of governing to go through the constitutional process and state in the record why he doesn’t want this prime minister to continue his work. Some of the excluded ministers were previously accused of corruption, poor management skills, indecision about rapidly changing national security issues, favoritism, and lack of necessary education for their assigned posts. The decisions some of those ministers have taken on national issues, reconstruction, and foreign affairs, is not in par with what’s expected from a government minister.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:11:58 +0000
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