Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
14 December 2008
Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussien (Nur Adde) refused on Sunday the decision by President Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed to sack him.
Speaking in Baidoa, the seat of the Somali transitional parliament Nur Adde said that the president has no "legal authority" to sack him and that he would continue to serve in his capacity as prime minister.
"I do not accept the president's announcement today that he sacked me as prime minister because he does not have that legal authority in our charter," the prime minister said at a press conference in Baidoa.
Mr. Hussein said that it was for the parliament to decide on the "constitutional breach" of president's decision to sack him early on Sunday after the president accused him of mismanagement and incompetence.
Mr. Yusuf and his Prime minister also disagreed last month over the composition of new cabinet.
President Abdulahi Yusuf has expressed dissatisfaction with the Djibouti deal, describing as "a clan deal."
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It is devastating to discover how little credibility anglo-saxon dominated institutions,like the media and organizations like HRW,have these days in Africa. As an Ethiopian i must say that they are exceptionally hostile to Ethiopia as this report shows that calls a US-puppet regime that is in power for 18 years in Ethiopia thanks to anglo-saxon,in particular US, support ETHIOPIA !
NO NO MELES and co are not Ethiopia they are US puppets who are in power AGAINST THE WILL OF 80 million Ethiopians and who are inflicting enormous damage on Ethiopia since they came to power in 1991 thanks to US support. So the anglo-saxons authors of that report should CRITICIZE themselves and their governments such as US and UK and Not Ethiopia !!!
We know allafrica is not really African and is owned by the americans, so hiding those facts only further destroys the credibility of this site in this era of the internet.
GUYS you need to mention at least a 1000 times how the Ethiopia-hater Bush kept supporting hated Meles after losing the may 2005 elections, and Ethiopians will never forget that and for sure the americans will pay one way or another for their crimes of the past 18 years on the Ethiopian people by installing their puppet Meles, the worst leader in the history of Ethiopia and Africa.
So keep on lying and hiding the facts about US crimes in Ethiopia and your credibility will approach ZERO.
Thanks
yours sincerely Tom
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