Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
31 October 2008
Mogadishu — As intergovernmental authority development (IGAD) host meeting has invited for Somali government's entire institutions and leaders to participate IGAD meeting there are increasing denunciation from the TFG officials those describing that meeting as "Failed" summit.
Somali MP Abdfirashid Ali Abdulle has told Shabelle by phone from Kenyan capital, Nairobi that it was repulsive that entire government to leave on one occasion from the country.
He also further said that it was intolerable that minister lower rank then the government's top leaders to deliver consecutive finger pointing charges against them.
"It was incredible that ministers with very minor position compared with the president and the prime minister to articulate what they wanted against leaders of country" Abdulle said.
He also said that it was against the law that starting from president till MPs of the government to all leave the country at one time.
The summit of leaders from six East African countries, including Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), comes a week after the government reached a ceasefire agreement with a main Somali opposition group.
Leaders from the five other Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) nations chided the Somalian government for failing to maintain peace in the country that the United Nations calls one of the worst humanitarian disasters. Somalia's TFG was set up in 2004 to end nearly two decades of violence by rival warlords.
"Little has been accomplished in the last four years," Moses Wetangula, the Kenyan foreign minister, said during the IGAD meeting this week. "We must realise that we don't have any more time to discuss the Somalia crisis in capital cities. Somalis have suffered for too long."
Analysts said the meeting is merely a chance for the regional leaders to chastise the Somalis without having to make promises or commit to any lasting solutions.
"I think you will see very little practical results coming out of the meeting," said Rashid Abdi, a Somalia analyst for the International Crisis Group, a think tank that seeks to resolve conflict. "It will be a symbolic message that the regional community is fed up with the Transitional Federal Government."
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