4 paragraphs, articles and annexes that were removed, 4 articles and paragraphs changed or altered and 5 articles and paragraphs that were added to the original PFC.
GO obtained both copies of the PFC and found 2 articles that were changed. Article 9 states, “The status of the capital city of Somalia shall be determined in the constitutional review process, and the two houses of the Somali Federal Parliament shall enact a special law with regards to this issue.” The PFC submitted to Parliamentarians in September 2012 has this addition before the clause: “The capital city of the Federal Republic of Somalia is Mogadishu”.
Also Article 199 that discusses the amount of petition signatures that could initiate the amendment of the constitution was also altered from 440,000 to 40,000.
According to government sources the addition, removals and alterations could have serious repercussions.
“If the Somali Provisional Federal Constitution that was agreed on by hundreds of Somalis has been hijacked, this is a serious offense and bears similarities to treason,” said the government source, who chose to speak on anonymity.
Former State Minister for Constitutional Affairs and current MP Abdirahman Hoosh Jibril accused Speaker Jawari in November 2012 of violating the PFC.
