Somalia: Government Committee for Bringing Back National Assets Opposed

 

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

April 16, 2007
Posted to the web April 16, 2007

Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu

The government administration in Lower Jubba province, southern Somalia, has had discrepancy over the committee which was formed on Sunday to bring back the national assets, including landscapes.

The first acting chair of the Lower Jubba administration, Ahmed Abdi Omar, announced in a news conference he held in provincial city of Kismayu that he does not recognize the existence of the committee.

"The decree issued for the nomination of the committee was illegal and unacceptable," he said.

On Sunday, the Somali government administration in Lower Jubba province has nominated what it called a national committee for restoring government properties.

The nomination was made in a decree issued by the chairman of the Lower Jubba province, Ilyas Badal Gaboose. The decree indicated that the job of the committee that makes up 7 would be to oversee former government buildings which were occupied by internally displaced people.

Thousands of Mogadishu residents fled to Kismayu in the past weeks while fleeing the deadly clashes between clan militias along with the insurgents and the Ethiopian soldiers based in swathe of south of the capital.

Neither the government nor the chairman of Jubba province commented on the issue.