SOMALI PARLIAMENT STOPS SKA AIR LOGISTICS FIRM FROM OPERATING IN TROUBLED SOMALIA UNTIL..........
Kanini Evans Kariuki
January 03, 2011
THE Somali Parliament came to the realization that the SKA Air logistics company concluded a contract which permits SKA air to manage all Somalia airports and Mogadishu sea port for 10 years.
This contract had not been processed through the state procedural channels which was to be initiated from the competent minister through the council of ministers, on its way to the National Assembly.
This hidden agreement compelled the parliament to call the Prime Minister to explain to the National Assembly how the government struck this deal with the above mentioned foreign company.
Last December 29, 2010, the Prime Minister, His Excellency Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, came to the Parliament and stated that his government was not involved in the deal, but that he would study and investigate how it was concluded by the foreign firm.
The Premier asked to be given four weeks to submit his reply.
Whereupon the National Assembly accepted his request and instructed him to stop the company in question from operating in Somalia until it (Parliament) responds to the legal issue of the status of the contract between the government and the company.
It is alleged that the contract was signed by the General manager of the Somali civil aviation department, and witnessed by outgoing Prime Minister Mr Omar AbdiRashid Sharmarke, who has been under a cloud of gross abuse of office and corruption.
The content of the said contract indicates that it (contract) allocates to the company 70 percent of the revenue collected, and there is a clause which states an x sum of money to be paid to the government which will be returned to the company if the deal fails to sail through.
Word has it that the company may request to get back its money after the intervention of the Parliament over the status of the contract.
The Somali National Assembly is of the opinion that the outgoing Prime Minister goofed and engaged in a conflict of interest, and also abused his authority by signing as a witness.
His act is said to have violated the cabinet standing orders, and the Somalia financial state procedures and regulations of December 1961 in which the state financial system is administered at present.
MEANWHILE.............
The informal meeting on the finishing term of both President Shariff and the TFG Parliament held at Nairobi's Silver Springs hotel last December 29, 2010, mandated the straight-forward, focused, visionary and charismatic Somali politician Hon Awad Ahmed Ashareh, to speak on behalf of the Somali parliamentarians since he is the right Member of Parliament who can speak for the Parliament after the Speaker and his deputies.
This contract had not been processed through the state procedural channels which was to be initiated from the competent minister through the council of ministers, on its way to the National Assembly.
This hidden agreement compelled the parliament to call the Prime Minister to explain to the National Assembly how the government struck this deal with the above mentioned foreign company.
Last December 29, 2010, the Prime Minister, His Excellency Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, came to the Parliament and stated that his government was not involved in the deal, but that he would study and investigate how it was concluded by the foreign firm.
The Premier asked to be given four weeks to submit his reply.
Whereupon the National Assembly accepted his request and instructed him to stop the company in question from operating in Somalia until it (Parliament) responds to the legal issue of the status of the contract between the government and the company.
It is alleged that the contract was signed by the General manager of the Somali civil aviation department, and witnessed by outgoing Prime Minister Mr Omar AbdiRashid Sharmarke, who has been under a cloud of gross abuse of office and corruption.
The content of the said contract indicates that it (contract) allocates to the company 70 percent of the revenue collected, and there is a clause which states an x sum of money to be paid to the government which will be returned to the company if the deal fails to sail through.
Word has it that the company may request to get back its money after the intervention of the Parliament over the status of the contract.
The Somali National Assembly is of the opinion that the outgoing Prime Minister goofed and engaged in a conflict of interest, and also abused his authority by signing as a witness.
His act is said to have violated the cabinet standing orders, and the Somalia financial state procedures and regulations of December 1961 in which the state financial system is administered at present.
MEANWHILE.............
The informal meeting on the finishing term of both President Shariff and the TFG Parliament held at Nairobi's Silver Springs hotel last December 29, 2010, mandated the straight-forward, focused, visionary and charismatic Somali politician Hon Awad Ahmed Ashareh, to speak on behalf of the Somali parliamentarians since he is the right Member of Parliament who can speak for the Parliament after the Speaker and his deputies.
Print
Email
