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Resignations on the rise in Somalia
A top Somali government official resigns after his colleague is gunned down, while three others resign citing corruption in the government. Sheikh Hassan Gaab member of the government of interim Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein resigned after he called a press conference in the city of Baidoa following the assassination of his colleague Abdullahi Abdi Egal in broad daylight also in Baidoa. Gaab accused the government's mishandling of the situation where lawmakers are being killed every day by unknown groups, a Press TV correspondent quoting Gaab reported from Mogadishu. He added that no one is arresting the killers who roam in the streets freely after every incident. The incidents are not being investigated by the Somali government either, "so we die for nothing", our correspondent quoted him as saying. Gaab said that lawmakers, fearing for their lives, are fleeing the city, blaming the Baidoa clan militia for the killings. In another development, three Baidoa government officials have resigned from their posts accusing senior officials of misusing taxes collected from local people. They said that the Bay regional government has not made any progress since it was established. The previous day, the Bay region's secretary for justice and religious affairs, Sheikh Abukar Sheikh Abdullahi, resigned from his post after raising similar concerns of corruption. Baidoa is the capital of the Bay region and the seat of Somalia's federal parliament since 2006. Posted by: Fred 2009-01-03 |
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