maqaal: Sheik Sharrif: They Have No Authority to Remove Me from Chairmanship

Sheik Sharrif: They Have No Authority to Remove Me from Chairmanship
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maqaal on 23 July, 2008 08:21:00
 
Mogadishu, Somalia (Maqaal.com) - Chairman of the Alliance for the Re-liberation
of Somalia ARS) Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed has opposed a decision to remove him
from the chairmanship of the ARS. Members of the ARS in Asmara announced
yesterday that they have removed him from the position of Chairman which has
been holding since the founding the ARS.
Sheik Sharif said that the ARS members in Asmara do not have the quorum to
remove him from the position and in any case he has don nothing wrong to warrant
such a decision.
“It takes 2/3 of the membership to remove me from the chairmanship of the
organization, and as we know the members in Asmara do not number 2/3 of the
membership of ARS” said Sheik Sharif who added that there is no reason for
them to remove him from Chairmanship.
“They can remove me from the position on two grounds which are incompetence
or making mistakes and neither has occurred. The only thing I am being accused
of is working for peace” Sheik Sherrif told Shabelle radio of Mogadishu from
Djibouti.
“If there is a mistake it is being made by the members in Asmara who,
contrary to what Islam mandates, have opposed” said Sheik Sharrif who added
that the ARS members in Asmara are not free to express their views for fear of
reprisal from Eritrean government which he said does not want to see a peaceful
Somalia and the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Somalia. “Eritrea sees the
withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Somali counterproductive to its interests
therefore it would not allow the resolution of the problems in Somalia” said
Sheik Sharrif.
Sheik Sharif continues his speech by saying that they are (his group)
determined to make sure that Ethiopian troops leave Somalia. “We are all
struggling to ensure the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Somalia therefore
what is wrong with striving to that end without the use of the gun” added
Sheik Sharrif.
All in all, the ARS, which was founded by groups from UICs, former members of
the Parliament who now call themselves the free Parliament, members of the civil
society, and members from the Somalia Diaspora, seem to have officially broken
into two sides with opposing leadership.
8:19 PM 7/23/2008