Abdisalan Dhabancad, the interim Speaker of the House of the People (Lower House) claims that police blocked the swearing-in ceremony of 16 Jubbaland legislators.
Dhabancad made these shocking allegations on April 25.
According to Dhabancad, the police were acting on the orders of General Ahmed Hijar.
Gen. Hijar is the Commissioner of the Somali Police Force (SPF).
The interim Lower House Speaker said that the swearing-in ceremony for the 16 Members of Parliament (MPs) had to be moved to a nearby hotel.
Initially, the ceremony was scheduled for Afisyoni Police Academy.
Afisyoni is the venue where the swearing-in ceremony of the new Lower House and Senate (Upper House) legislators took place a few days ago.
The 16 MPs whose swearing-in ceremony the police blocked were recently elected in El-Wak to represent Jubbaland in the federal parliament.