We must hold President Farmaajo accountable says MP Shuuriye
MP Abdi Sabir Noor Shuriye has reiterated the need for holding Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo accountable for violating the constitution on many occasions including the latest attack on the premise of Abdirahman Abdishakur.
Speaking to the media today, he emphasized on holding the president answerable to his continuous constitutional blunders he committed including the latest attack on the house of Abdirahman Abdishakur.
“The president has committed many mistakes which the latest one is the attack on Abdishakur’s house without proper adherence to the constitution. The president can lose office through this latest act. There many other constitutional mistakes committed by the president including Qalbi Dhagah case” said MP Shuirye.
He mentioned the role of the parliament is to safeguard the constitution. “If the president violates one part of the constitution, it is our responsibility which we vowed for to hold him accountable. Holding him accountable is not to praise him but to bring a motion against him in the parliament to relieve him power.”
He enlightened the Somali public on the reasons behind carrying a motion in parliament is to set the records straight on existing problems.
“I inform the Somali public that whenever they hear a motion [in parliament], they think it is a move to over throw the government. A motion rectifies a problem. They must know the difference between governance and holding a person accountable. We are not overthrowing the government but we are setting it right” added MP Shuriye.
Letting the president on free course will amount to misuse of power and the work of the MPs is tighten the reign on good governance according to MP Shuriye.
“If we let the president free, he will hand you over one by one like Qalbi Dhagah. Now he can’t do this because we are the ones blocking him to do so.”
He said that a change of guard in the government is executed if necessity dictates and called upon the public to have less worries. “The public should have fewer worries. Changing a person is not destroying a governement. If a president breaks the constitution, he will be replaced. Why wait for 4 years? This is the work of the parliament.”
He cautioned the administration of stifling the MPs in similarity with the past military regime that ruled Somali for 21 years with iron fist terming it as an “unfortunate thing that the leaders of today want to exercise suppression on the MPs at this time in Somalia where we have passed the period for war. We cannot be suppressed. We have our rights. If you want the MPs to applaud for the president, then that was the case with 21 years dictatorship reign of the past military regime.”
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