General Prosecutor of Somalia, Abdullahi Dahir Barre, Thursday described the Prime Minister's decision to dismiss the Mayor of Mogadishu and to name new ministers as unconstitutional.
In a letter dated Aug. 4, which the General Prosecutor sent to the President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and the Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein, Barre said that neither the Council of Ministers nor the Prime Minster has the power to issue a decree or a law naming someone for a post.
"Therefore Decree No. OPM/266-07/08 issued from the office of the Prime Minister on July 29, 2008 and signed by the prime minister has no force of law and is null and void," said the prosecutor, a close ally of the President, in the letter which he wrote to express his legal opinion at the request of the President.
Last week Hussein sacked the mayor of Mogadishu, Mohamed Omar Habeeb, a close ally of the President, who is reported to have reinstated the mayor in a letter.
Eleven pro-president ministers resigned over the dismissal of the mayor.
Source:Xinhua
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