Somalia: parliament votes for the cabinet, minister quits

DJibouti 22 Fabaury 2009 Waagacusub Media

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The extended Somalia parliament members of secular and Islamists in Djibouti later Saturday endorsed in majority vote for the new cabinet named by prime minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke - as one of the ministers today declared his resignation, sources told Waagacusub Media.

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357 members voted yes for the cabinet while 16 voted no as 2 abstained. Hours before the vote the cabinet ministers were sworn through the book of the holly Quran.

The deputy prime minister and minister of energy and petrol Abduwahid Elmi Goonjeeh who is hailing from Marehaan clan of Darod tribe resigned after his clan pressured him not to accept what they called un-important post.

The minister’s resignation followed mass demonstrations in Gedo region, southren Somalia against the formation of the new cabinet as unfair.

Mr. Elmi was the first minister resigned from the new cabinet day after it was formed the prime minister, the son of a former slain president in Somalia 1960s.

Also in Djibouti, leaders of some of the minority clans like Tumaal, Musse-Dheri and Madhiban held press conference boycotting the new government saying that they were ignored and not given enough posts.

Other ministers are due to resign from the cabinet as the leaflets written on words against the minister of finance Sharif Hassan Sheik Adam were scattered at the hotels in Djibouti.

“Sharif Hassan is nation destroyer, violator, selfish and he is not born to Digil and Mirifle, he is from Others and now he is known money laundering, he is not deserved to be finance minister. To give Sharif the post of finance ministry means to name a cat to be the head of the rats. He had never been in school, he only knows to save money,” those were among the terms written on the papers.

By Dahir Abdulle Alasow

dahiralasow@yahoo.com

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