Cairo, Egypt, August 22, 2009 (SL Times) – In an interview with the BBC Somali Service (Aug.18, 2009), Ali Bashe Haji, a member of Somalia’s parliament accused Somalia’s government of favoritism and ineptness. Mr Ali Bashe Haji said that the government that was formed in Djibouti was supposed to improve the situation but all that happened was that some members of the Islamic Courts split from their colleagues and are now under attack from their old partners. He also revealed that he and a delegation of parliamentarians including the former Foreign Minister, Ismail Hurre Buuba, visited Egypt to convey to the Egyptian authorities their own assessment of the political situation. In Egypt they met with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mona Omar and officials from the Arab League.
Ali Bashe Haji revealed that eleven of Somalia’s parliamentarians have applied for political asylum in Britain, Canada and Europe with the full knowledge of government leaders.
Since Somalia’s government controls only a few blocks in Mogadishu, Somalia’s parliament is really a parliament in name only, the same way Somalia’s government is a government in name only. Whatever laws Somalia’s parliament passes have little prospect of being applied in real life.

 

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