Garoweonline:President Hassan is contemplating sacking Prime Minister Shirdon

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Somalia: President Hassan planning administration reshuffle: gov’t source says

8 May 8, 2013 - 10:34:19 AM

MOGADISHU, Somalia May 8 2013 (Garowe Online) – Sources close to the Somali Federal Government (SFG) tell Garowe Online that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is planning to conduct a major reshuffle in his administration, Garowe Online reports.

 

President Hassan Sheikh who is currently in London where he co-chaired the Somalia conference with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron might be getting ready for an overhaul of his administration.

 

Sources tell GO that on his list of changes the SFG President will return the number of Cabinet Ministers from 10 to 18 which was the number of ministers during former Prime Ministers Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas and Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. The undersized cabinet appointed by Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon defied the 4.5 quota – a formula in which clans share government representation – and forced many ministries to be joined which resulted in 25 Deputy Ministers.

 

According to our source, the high number of deputy ministers brought confusion, which resulted in political aides advising that the President return to the 18 ministry cabinet. Prime Minister Shirdon appointed the small cabinet which was backed by President Hassan who according to SFG sources had influence in the decision.

 

The source also told GO that President Hassan is contemplating sacking Prime Minister Shirdon after he failed to subdue the ongoing Jubaland state process which has seen international backing from IGAD and mentions at the Somalia conference in London. After the conference in Lancaster House the official communique welcomed “progress on forming regional administrations and looked forward to the completion of that process,” which political insiders say is an oblique reference to the state building process.

 

In the past, President Hassan has firmly stood against the Jubaland process in Kismayo. Addressing the Federal Parliament in Mogadishu earlier this month, President Hassan said “The Federal Government does not support the current Jubaland conference in Kismayo”.

 

Prime Minister Shirdon – whose clan resides in Gedo region, one of the regions that make Jubaland –visited Kismayo in March and after meeting with process organizers returned to Mogadishu to reject the Jubaland state formation. Although Prime Minister Shirdon has firmly stood by President Hassan the source says that President Hassan was disappointed in his effort.

 

According to the source, the possible reshuffle does not stop at Prime Minister Shirdon but key officials at the presidential palace might also be sacked. The source would not name some of the officials in question.

 

The talk of a possible reshuffle of his administration comes at a time when President Hassan is being pledged millions of dollars to rebuild Somalia. Britain pledged 279 million US dollars which included funding for a doubling of the police force. The United States pledged 40 million US dollars, while the United Arab Emirates pledged 50 million in assistance.

 

GAROWE ONLINE

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http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Somalia_27/Somalia_President_Hassan_planning_administration_reshuffle_gov_t_source_says.shtml

[oba hiloowlow]

BS

[SomaliPhilosopher]

oba hiloowlow;947846 wrote:

BS

+1

[xiinfaniin]

I would be surprised if this happens...

 

Saacid has been on the president's side on every issue , why sack him? This does not make sense

[oba hiloowlow]

xiinfaniin;947853 wrote:

I would be surprised if this happens...

 

Saacid has been on the president's side on every issue , why sack him? This does not make sense

sheekada fahan saalax is angry cause of what the president said about somali unity expect many bacaac thread maalmaha soo socda

[xiinfaniin]

ok. So the brief separatists thinking of Hassan as a closet separatist sympathizer has been rudely disrupted :D

[Saalax]

Saalax Writes Garoweonline? You should take grievances to your former political partners Oba Hiloowlow.

[oba hiloowlow]

Xiin,exactly :D

[Saalax]

Oodweyne;947845 wrote:

We will wait our Gabbal's take on this.

 

Or it could be Farole's mouthpiece version of "mischief-making", in the sense of trying to stir a deep mistrust between the Hassan Sheikh and his PM.

 

 

I wouldn't be surprised if it has some truth to it. Culusow only sees something that can be an obstacle

to the proposed Jubbaland state as useful in regards to his cabinet. You will see some of the

ministers that did not proof themselves in the Jubbaland issue to be replaced in the reshuffle.

[Duufaan]

Landers

take easy people! the future is great,nothing you could really do about it.

[Saalax]

^The future is great for Mogadishu in regards to Somalia. Not sure where Khaatumo in bonds fits in though

in this.

[Carafaat]

This news comes Faroole and his sons Garoweonline, looks more like wishfull thinking from the pirates side.

[Gabbal]

That theory needs to be looked at from three vantage points to guage the feasibility of happening: a legal, professional, and personal view.

 

Legally the President doesn't have the authority to sack the PM. The constitution and political reality is very clear. The PM is announced at the pleasure of the President but serves at the pleasure of Parliament through an initial vote of confidence blessing the PM's mandate. The only way a PM can be sacked is by voluntary resignation or a vote of no confidence by Parliament. We cannot predict the PM's voluntary resignation but we can analyze the probability of a vote of no confidence as not being very strong. The PM's mandate through Parliament is quite strong and enjoys considerable goodwill and support from the legislative chamber.

 

To get to that point, serious fissure between the President and PM needs to occur that dents their professional and personal relationship. It is enough to say the PM and President are in full agreement on the government agenda and policies and that they are also observed to be very close friends.

 

Given these measurements, it is enough to say GaroweOnline is displaying a personal wish and is using retrograde transitional-era models to provide a foundation for hypothesizing that aspired objective.

 

I think it is more realistic to predict this PM will be around for quite sometime and maybe even finish the current president's full term.

[NGONGE]

Garowe Online are up to no good.

 

(even in the days of Abdullahi Yusuf, the president struggled to get rid of his PMs, never mind the current days of a "reborn" Somalia).