MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A bunch of Somali MPs held a press convention within the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, asking Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre to resign for failure to safe two truckloads of weapons illegally smuggled from Ethiopia which had ended up within the fingers of clansmen within the central area of Galgadud.
The MPs alleged that the weapons had been destined for the militant group Al-Shabaab and had been meant to hurt clan militias combating alongside authorities forces within the central areas.
It comes a day after the federal government distanced itself from smuggling the weapons from Ethiopia amid a diplomatic tiff regardless of stories {that a} safety element dispatched by the Nationwide Intelligence and Safety Company (NISA) had been escorting the truckloads of weapons earlier than being ambushed close to the city of Abud Waq.
The Somali federal MPs additionally opposed government-introduced tax on cash despatched via cell phones, regionally often known as EVC, stressing that such levies are risk to the nation’s economic system and exacerbates the monetary burden on the already susceptible inhabitants within the capital.
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