Abdullahi Yusuf Arms clan with TFG guns Sensing limited days of Presidency

PressTv on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:10:52 GMT Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has illegally armed his clan with weapons belonging to the country's transitional government, report says.

A fact-finding mission, tasked by the Somali Parliament with investigating accusations of corruption against Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, claims the president arranged for the transfer of the weaponry to his clansmen Majerteen, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday.

Informing the lawmakers of the delegation's findings, Parliament spokesman Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur also accused Yusuf Ahmed of pocketing great chunks of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) funds.

The news comes after, on Tuesday, Yusuf Ahmed replaced premier Nur Hassan Hussein with his appointee Mohamud Mohamed Guled, reportedly violating the constitution.

The move came amid Somalia's ongoing struggle to agree on a cabinet since Hussein's predecessor Ali Mohamed Gedi stepped down in October 2007.

Hussein's dismissal and Gedi's resignation have both been put down to the two former officials' defying the president's will to use the state budgets to fund his clansmen and 'other foreign mafia'.

During the parliamentary session, the president was also charged with ordering his clan's gunmen to illegally arrest some legal authorities of the government including the Chairman of the Supreme Court Yusuf Ali Haruun.

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