Press Release:

To; Speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia , Mogadishu

Cc: Chief Justice of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mogadishu

Re: The Decision Dated September 25, 2015 dismissing the Impeachment Motion against President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and dated August 12, 2015

Your Excellency, we received with shock and dismay your written statement of today, captioned above, in which you cavalierly dismiss the impeachment motion submitted to your office on August 12, 2012, which motion was signed by 93 members of parliament.

As your Excellency would recall, after we submitted the motion and respectfully requested from you to transmit it to the Chief Justice of the Federal Government of Somalia for determination of the legal validity of the grounds of the motion, you counseled us that it would be imprudent to take the motion to the courts without exhausting dialogue between the concerned parties.

We followed your advice trusting that your advice was proffered in good faith.Subsequently, on September 12 th , 2015, you issued a press statement informing the public that you have advised the two parties, the Office of the President and the sponsors of the impeachment motion to enter into earnest dialogue and that if the talks do not produce any positive results within two weeks of the commencement of the talks, you would submit the motion to the competent courts. In this press statement , you also stated that the President has delegated the Prime Minister to represent him in the talks. Attached please find a copy of your statement.

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SPONSORING COMMITTEE OF THE IMPEACHMENT MOTION (SCIM)