Regional Council: Keep off the army from politics and allow political differences
The Council for intergovernmental cooperation (CIC) has today released an official communique in response to the arrest of Abdirahman Abdishakur requesting the federal government to keep away the national army from taking over police duties and allow freedom of association and expression.
It also stated “their close follow up of developments from the latest incident where if no urgent political solution is exercised can lead to instability in the country.”
Good gesture
As a result, the council has reached several consensus among them it “welcomed the unconditional release of politician Abishakur Abdirahman after extensive efforts by the intergovernmental cooperation council, federal ministers, MPs, chieftains, traditional elders.”
Appeals
They communiqué also “appealed to the completion of the remaining issues according to the constitution to preserve general stability, peace, and the basic rights of the citizen.”
In the same line it “stalwartly appealed for the national army to be refrained from anything that triggers their mixture with politics and calls for all resources that can be acquired for their strength in order to retain them in the front lines against Alshabab to attain success against terrorism and liberating the country and shunning away anything that will detract us from this goal.”
Political differences
“We warn to criminalize the continuous political differences since the law permits for the opposition and conservative to measure their thoughts towards the current political situation in line with the constitution which allows freedom of association and expression” read the communique.
Misuse of military power
The council proposed to desist from “pursuing the path of solving political difference through military power while the country is in a fragile state which makes imperatives to reach everything via reconciliation and with satisfactory conclusion which their absence can result new division and retreating back to long days passed.”
The Council also sent its condolence to the families whose members were killed in during the assault carried on the arrest of Abdirahman Abdishakur 3 days ago.
It further reiterated as “earlier agreed not to use any of the intelligence agents and the national army for local issues to play the roles of the police force.”
The statement concludes with the “readiness of the council to play its role towards achieving solutions to this current issue.”
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