Mogadishu Mayor threatens to step down

Mayor of Mogadishu Hassan Mohamed Hussein Mungab has on Tuesday threatened to resign demonstrating challenges that his administration of Mogadishu Municipality met against the Finance Ministry.

Speaking to the reporters in Mogadishu the Mayor furriously criticized the ministry not rejecting 15 % budeget portion that Mogadishu municpality destined to receive from the income revenue from the Port of Mogadishu.

“ We did not receive the budget we have been allocated to pay as salaries to our staff and the challeges seem to stems misappropiate use of this funds by the finance ministry “ Said Mungab.

“ If these funds we not paid within four months , the only alternative we have is to set down “ he added.
The Mayor insisted that a local council should be established paving the way for an official audit by the deputies in the council against mismanaging the public funds by certain cabinet members of the government.
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