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Somali PM's
decision to sack Mayor unconstitutional: report
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ADDIS
ABEBA(August 08,2008) - General Prosecutor of Somalia,
Abdullahi Dahir Barre, Thursday described the Prime Minister's decision
to dismiss the Mayor of Mogadishu and to name new ministers as unconstitutional,
Xinhua reported.
In a letter dated Aug. 4, which the General Prosecutor sent to the
President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and the Prime Minister Nur Hassan
Hussein, Barre said that neither the Council of Ministers nor the
Prime Minster has the power to issue a decree or a law naming someone
for a post, according to the report.
"Therefore Decree No. OPM/266-07/08 issued from the office of
the Prime Minister on July 29, 2008 and signed by the prime minister
has no force of law and is null and void", the news agency quoted
the prosecutor, a close ally of the President, as having said in the
letter which he wrote to express his legal opinion at the request
of the President.
Last week Hussein sacked the mayor of Mogadishu, Mohamed Omar Habeeb,
a close ally of the President, who is reported to have reinstated
the mayor in a letter.
Eleven pro-president ministers resigned over the dismissal of the
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