Jawari demands security forces in parliament vacate, says motion on course

Lower House Speaker Mohamed Jawari has demanded the new security team deployed in parliament building must evacuate to allow the House conduct business failure to which, ‘we will declare armed militia have taken over Parliament’.

Addressing the media Sunday, Jawari who is at loggerheads with PM Hassan Khaire added the motion against him which failed to be debated last week over quorum hitch can now be tabled before the House within ten days time noting it had secured sufficient backing of lawmakers to proceed.

“The security forces who are in parliament must vacate immediately otherwise we will declare them as armed militia who have taken over parliament,” Jawari said in his third press conference since the motion failed last Wednesday.

But the government has maintained the deploying of the security forces was a security procedure.

The motion is now accepted and we just need to follow the requisite procedures to have it tabled within ten days in accordance with the House Standing Orders, Jawari added while calling on the House Business Committee to slot it a date.

Responding to claims he had bowed to pressure to resign, Jawari said, “I am here according to the law and will leave in accordance with the same law. Those who are saying so are dreaming; let them wake up.”

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