The second deputy parliamentary speaker of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia, Osman Elmi Boqorre announced his resignation from the position on Saturday evening.
Talking to the Mogadishu-based reporters via telephone from the Iranian capital Tehran, Boqore accused the Somali parliament leadership of corruption and mismanagement, saying that he could no longer serve as deputy speaker.
“As we know our time of office has expired late last year and the Somali lawmakers have to elect a new speaker and his deputies when they assemble for the first session on Sunday,” Boqorre stated.
Since January this year, scores of Somali parliamentarians have been calling on the speaker and his deputies to quit, alleging that their legal mandate has expired, while hundreds of members of Somalia’s 550-member parliament are defending the legality of the parliament’s leadership.
On Saturday, the Somali speaker and more than 50 MPs returned home from Kenya amid preparations for the resumption of the Somali parliamentary session. The parliament did not meet for the past several months after fleeing from its former interim conference center at the Somali police traffic workshop as militants were advancing.
The militants want to overthrow the international-backed government and instead to form an Islamic state in Somalia, but analysts say the Islamic rule they want is like the Taliban-style Islamic system that ruled Afghanistan before being removed late in 2001 by the US lead invasion after the 9/11 attacks that rocked the United states.
Source: African Press Agency
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