Somali MPs want to grill NISA director over security lapse

She got in trouble after vowing to put forward the controversial gender bill to the house for approval amid the public uproar about allegations of anti-Islam points in the law.

News Keydmedia Online
3 December 2022

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The lawmakers of the Federal Parliament of Somalia have submitted a motion demanding a critical debate on security and immunity amid an imminent threat.

144 out of 145 MPs who attended Saturday's session agreed to discuss the security of the country first before other bills, while 1 MP abstained, as announced by the House speaker Aden Madobe.

The agenda of today's meeting was initially the distribution of the 1st reading of the electricity bill but all issues changed after 22 signed by 22 MPs signed a motion on national security.

The legislators asked the House leadership to summon the director of NISA - National Intelligence and Security Agency to face questions about the security lapse and the latest Al-Shabaab hotel attack.

On the other hand, the 1st Deputy Speaker Sadiyo Yassin Haji Samatar was absent from today's session of the parliament amid a growing talk of a motion against her in the past few days.

She got in trouble after vowing to put forward the controversial gender bill to the house for approval amid the public uproar about allegations of anti-Islam points in the law.

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