SOMALIA: President Sharif not satisfied with the draft constitution

By; Abdalle Ahmed
Mogadishu (RBC) Somali interim president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has demonstrated that he is not satisfied with some of the contents of the new draft constitution amid contradictory remarks by the government officials on the constitution.
“I share that I am not satisfied with some awful articles included into the new constitution and strongly ask to remove.” President Sharif said during his public address of the 52nd anniversary of Somali National Army.
The president acknowledged the growing suspicion and outrage by the local community against the draft constitution as he insisted that the constitution can be amended though it  has not yet been adopted.
“I listened some of the elders and religious people who are worrying the constitution and I told them that it must reviewed” he added.
But in contrast, the Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali who spoke to local journalists this week said that there were no any bad things in the constitution and called for the people to prop up it.
“I see those who oppose the constitution have not read what it is talking about. First they must read it.” The prime minister said.
 
 
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