Former Mogadishu Mayor – Top Leaders Ought to Quit

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

20 July 2011

Mogadishu — Mohamed Omar Habeb, former Mogadishu mayor called for Somalia’ top leaders to quit their jobs as result of massive corruption over international donors’ aid to Somalia that US’s Atlantic Council revealed early this year.

Mr. Habeb said that United States government is needed to put Somali leaders who committed corruption on trail.

Also, he noted the prime minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali should not be busy in forming cabinet ministers instead it would better for him to step down as he is part the officials accused of misspending government’s funds.

Recently, the report of the auditors reviewing the TFG’s books for the years 2009 and 2010 reveals that while during the relevant period bilateral assistance to the regime totaled $75,600,000, only $2,875,000 could be accounted for. The auditors determined that the balance, which represents more than 96 percent of international aid to the TFG, was simply “stolen” and specifically recommended forensic investigations of the Office of the President, the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Telecommunications, as the most egregious offenders, according to Atlantic Council.

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