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SOMALIA: PM COMES BACK TO JOWHAR VICTORIOUS October 28, 2005
Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, accompanied by half a dozen government officials and members of the parliament, arrived in Jowhar today from work related visit to Nairobi Kenya. Parliamentarians and government officials who came with him were part of a larger group who originally sided with Mogadishu based faction leaders and held their sessions in Mogadishu, refusing to move to government’s temporary operations headquarters, Jowhar.
Speaking with SomaliNet, the prime minister said the government is not divided anymore and every peace loving member is now in happily Jowhar. We hope the rest will follow suit and join us. Members of Mogadishu camp started coming to Jowhar in the past few days.
The prime minister thanked government and parliament members who changed their view about his leadership and decided to work with him wholeheartedly. He called his trip a success. Dr. Qamar Adan Ali told SomaliNet she came to Jowhar for national cause and was very happy to be in Jowhar today.
Mogadishu faction leaders who are losing political ground to the government accused their former allies who went to Jowhar voluntarily of seeking bribe from the president.
In other development, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative to Somalia, François Lonseny Fall met with President Abdulahi Yusuf in Jowhar Tuesday. They discussed about current situation and United Nations’ role in Somalia’s road to recovery. Mr. Fall held a press conference after the meeting in which he acknowledged Mogadishu's current unsafe situation and accepted Jowhar as Somalia’s temporary capital city.