Garowe Online (Garowe)
2 November 2009
More than 60 Somali lawmakers have on Monday called on Somali parliament speaker Sheikh Adan Madobe to reopen the parliament, which has been in recess for more than four months
In a press conference held in the restive capital Mogadishu, the Members of Parliament accused the speaker of taking the unilateral decision to postpone the parliamentary sittings
"We call on Sheikh Adan Madobe (the speaker) to reopen the parliament session because there are a lot of works to do," said Ismail Ahmed Nur, one of the lawmakers who spoke with reporters in Mogadishu.
The legislators said the speaker has no valid reason to break the parliament proceedings, accusing him of blocking their salaries of four months.
The last time the lawmakers met was in August, when they passed the state of emergency motion, calling on neighbouring countries to send in troops to defend the country's embattled UN-backed transition government
The embattled Somalia parliament has relocated to the capital Mogadishu from neighbouring Djibouti early this year but has been inefficient due to hostility from insurgents who target it with mortars.
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