| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Africa Horn | |
| Somalia: Former defense minister welcomes the loss of his cabinet post | |
| 2007-05-14 | |
| (SomaliNet) Former Somalia defense minister but now member of Parliament Bare Aden Shire Hirale for the first time Sunday spoke out the reasons he lost his post in the cabinet while talking to the local media. Mr. Hirale, former warlord in lower Juba region, who is now in Baidoa city in southwest Somalia, said he was sacked from the cabinet after he did not do things the way the government wanted to face matters. “The government wanted me to do what is looked good to them but not to me and I actually, am very happy to lose such post, now I am ready to work with the interim government as a member of parliament,” He said.
Asked about the tension looming in Kismayu, the southern port city of Somalia, Mr. Hirale said the matter does not need to be resolved by force but through peaceful means with responsibility. “Kismayu is not a city inhabited by two clans but is a city lived by all Somalis, so the residents are in protest against the administration formed by the federal government and the people need their problem to be addressed,” added Hirale. On Saturday, Somalia’s interim Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi fired two of his cabinet ministers in a decree issued yesterday for failing to do honestly the national duty as part of his reshuffle of the cabinet. The sacked ministers are Bare Aden Shire ‘Hirale’ the defense minister and Hussein Aideed, the deputy prime minister. In the decree, the fired ministers were accused of being inactive in their duties. Both men are in Asmara, Eritrea and in Baidoa, southwest Somalia. Hussien Aideed who had already lost the post of interior minister was accused of making alliance with the ousted Islamist leaders and former parliament speaker. The only posts left for both men are members of the parliament. | |
| Posted by:Fred |