 (SomaliNet) Somalia speaker of the parliament Saturday has strongly condemned the new plan approved by the parliament imposing martial law on the country as illegal. Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden who is in self-imposed exile with 21 of his parliamentarians in Djibouti ...
| Brave, brave Sharif Hassan ... |
... said the new law is unacceptable to Somali people and it only makes the situation harder than before.
Speaking to the local Radio Shabelle in Mogadishu by telephone, Mr. Hassan expressed his anger to the approval by the MPs to the plan, which bans civilians and clan militiamen from possessing weapons. He said the state of emergency law approved by the parliament violates the country’s constitutional law. “The parliament in Baidoa has adopted illegal plan that might put the country into disastrous way and create clan conflict because the problem of Somalia can not be solved by military force but needs via peaceful means,” Hassan said.
| Peaceful resolution of disputes has worked so well in Somalia to date ... |
About 154 lawmakers in Baidoa city, 245km southwest of Somalia capital voted in favor of new powers banning unauthorized demonstrations. "After long debate on this issue, most of the MPs have voted in favor, so that law has been passed by parliament," deputy speaker, Osman Boqore told the lawmakers. The martial law will last for three months in which the country will be ruled under state of emergency.
| Prob'ly necessary, and for more than three months ... |
The move came after clashes this week in the capital Mogadishu between government forces and militiamen supporting clan faction leaders. The new law will give special power to the president, a military man He said that he and other group of MPs have nowhere to return to since their country is in occupation by outsiders. “We are lawmakers whose country is occupied by foreign troops and we are asking the international community to put more pressure on Ethiopian government to pull out its troops from Somalia,” said Sharif Hassan.
| So I take it you're not grateful that the Aethiops got your country back for you? Sounds familiar, I think I've heard this somewhere else ... |
The speaker and other 21 MPs were expelled from Kenya following warning issued from the Kenyan foreign ministry that all the Somali lawmakers opposing the transitional government should leave Kenya within 72 hours.
| Perhaps they could take a boat to Yemen ... |
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