Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
22 December 2011
Garowe — The interior ministry for the Somalia’s Transitional federal government TFG, has on Thursday blocked parliament from sessions in Mogadishu, days after a controversial vote Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden was replaced by MPs.
In a press conference held in Garowe town by the minister for interior and national security for TFG, Abdisamad mo’alin Mohamud talked more about the internal fighting and differences among MPs over the firing of speaker from office, he said,” it deplorable the repeated fist fighting of MPs at parliament house in the capital, Mogadishu.”
The minister of home and national security for Somali government Abdisamad mo’alin Mohamud, ordered national security forces for TFG not to allow holding the parliament assembly in four weeks until the dispute and infighting among lawmakers addressed.
The minister said, the legislators should inform for their meeting to his ministry within 72-hours before holding to avoid further division and fist fighting of the MPs at parliament house in Mogadishu.
Continuing his comments, Mr. Mohamud, announced the intension of the temporary blocking parliament from meeting, he said it is to keep away from deepening of the political deadlock and internal fighting in the Somali TFP (Transitional Federal Parliament)
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