Sensing the dynamite nature of the Qalbi-Dhagax case, the leadership of the federal parliament set up a special parliamentary committee comprised of both sides of the debate. [...] They include the spill over effect of the Gulf crisis, the internal leadership crisis of some federal member states, the unilateral decision of the federal units to form the Council for Inter-governmental Cooperation (CIC) in Kismaayo and the deteriorating security situation. [...] Under the chairmanship of Gaas, the president of Puntland, the CIC issued a scathing communiqué in which it accused the federal government of a litany of “interferences and destabilization schemes”. [...] This council seems to duplicate the duties of the upper house, which according to article 71 of the constitution is representative of the member state’s interests at the federal level. [...] The government did not respond to the allegations until the release of the Kismaayo communiqué.
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