Somalia: Government Says Will Search Why Some of the MPs Went Abroad

Somalia — The transitional government of Somalia said that they will search why some of the lawmakers went to abroad, just as some of the transitional government officials including ministers were accused involving the corrupt of UN aid food to Somalia, official said on Thursday.

Prof. Abdirahman Haji Aden Ibbi, the deputy prime minister of the transitional government disproved the UN's monitoring group's report that the officials of the government had involved the corruption of the United Nation's aid food for Somalia.

He also had condemned harshly to the UN's monitoring group issued the report requesting from the United Nations to assure the allegations suggested for the authorities of the transitional government of Somalia.

Prof. Abdirahman Haji Aden known as (Ibbi), the fishing minister and the deputy prime minister of the transitional government of Somalia told reporters in Mogadishu that the government will put pressure on assuring the reason that some of the transitional parliamentarians left out of the country.

The minister said that the members of the legislators were sent to abroad for training reason adding that it is unclear the aim they had gone to the other countries in abroad asserting that the government would assure their absence.

"Some of them had returned while some others went far away to abroad, we shall ask the ministry of constitution of Somalia to know where they had gone," said Prof. Ibbi.

The statement of the minister comes as there had been allegations that some of the transitional government officials took part the corrupted aid food of UN for Somalia which said that the members of TFG bought visas and other special interests.


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