Somali interior minister calls on Puntland to be a role model for 2016 elections
The interior and federal affairs minister of Somalia Abdirahman Odawa has has called on the northeastern regional administration of Puntland to be a role model for the upcoming elections in 2016.
On a two-day visit to Garowe, where he took part a consultative meeting on 2016 election, the Minister said that the federal government wants Puntland to play an immense role in support of the national elections.
The minister of interior has also applauded regional states over holding a nation-wide consultations on the model of the 2016 electoral process of Somalia as the mandate of the current government federal expires in August 2016.
People from all walks of life and civil society leaders were given access to be part of two-day consultative forums held in the country on process of the 2016 national elections.
