President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo is facing possible impeachment by federal parliament, following a serious motion submitted by 92 Member of Parliaments on Sunday. The MPs accused the president for violating over a dozen articles of the constitution, as well as other national laws relating to the country’s penal code and bylaws.
The MPs stated that President Farmaajo’s actions were not only premeditated but always self-serving, in order to shore up an undemocratic and dictator-like grip on power. Thereby, totally disregarding proper democratic procedures as expected of the highest office in Somalia. The violation of which the president is accused of are; procedure and process of extradition and exchange of prisoners, the State Penal code, limits and scope of executive powers, abrogation of Somalia’s federalism by actively fighting against the federal states and contravention of security by-laws.
The MPs specifically underlined eight critical areas off infringements detailing specific articles and laws that the president breached. The MPs were also displeased with President Farmaajo for handing over 4 harbors on the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea in June 2018, following ‘economic, political and security cooperation’ agreement between the leaders of Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea signed in Asmara in September and Bahr Dar in November 2018. They also highlighted how the president handed over Ex-colonel Abdikarim Muse Qalbi-dhagah to Ethiopia and the removed of General Abdalla Abdalla from NISA – among other serious transgressions by the president.
Villa Somalia’s open interference in federal-states ‘elections’, notably that of Puntland and Southwest, appear to have underscored a growing resentment against the president and prime minister. Critics accuses that Villa Somalia wishes to install puppet administrations that cannot show to have an independent mind of their own – a situation which precipitated the formation of the Inter-State Cooperation Council.
