By: Abdalle Ahmed
Mogadishu (RBC) More than 40 legislators from Somalia federal parliament are currently visiting the port town of Kismayo in Somalia’s Lower Jubba region where a conference to form new administration is continuing on.
The MPS numbered 44 have left Mogadishu and reached Kismayo on Wednesday by air as they were warmly received by officials from the interim administration of the region and local elders.
The members of the parliament who have reached Kismayo town, mostly from Jubba clansmen will hold meetings with the local administration in Kismayo aimed to show their support to the ongoing Jubbaland’s formation conference despite the central government has opposed the process which it said as “unconstitutional gathering”.
The visit of the 44 legislators to Kismayo came a day after tense debate at Somalia parliament meeting on Tuesday where a bulk of the house’s members rejected such visit.
Last week Somalia prime minister Abdi Farah Shirdon has wrapped up a three days tour to Kismayo after the interim administration of Kismayo boycotted nomination of regional administration for Kismayo instead of “a semi autonomous state”.
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