Cabays Media Staff Write:-

A shocking and embarrassing fight broke out in Somaliland’s House Representatives and its speaker and his deputy got into a no-hold-barred fistfight in the chamber Saturday.

Waddani opposition party leader and the speaker of the lower house, Abdirahman Abdillahi Erro hit hard his deputy speaker Bashe Mohamed Farah during heated brawl at the chamber as media cameras and MPs were all witnessing and recorded the disgraceful fistfight.

The fistfight stemmed from government pushed motion it wants to alter an earlier parliament vote which blocks the government to transfer the authority of the Berbera oil terminals to private companies reportedly paying huge kickbacks.

The speaker of the house and his deputy exchanged heated words after Mr. Erro forwarded the postponement of voting on the motion the MPs argued over.

After chairman Erro said the motion forwarded by pro-government MPs will be debated on the next parliament session the whole situation changed into chaos and opposing MPs started to shout at each other and some started singing childish songs in protest against the motion presented by prominent pro-government MPs.

This is when the point of argument reached in exploding tension and the chairman and his deputy started exchanging verbal abuse and physically encountered before full scale of scuffle broke out.

Members of the parliament were not quick to separate the embattled chairman and his deputy. After wrestling up and down at the chamber they were send to opposite corners while cameramen crowded around and MPs cheered on their blunder.

After the fight chairman Erro was seen limping and bushed   while his deputy seemed in muddling and seized with an impotent anger and surrounded by his colleagues comforting.

The MPs supporting the government and the deputy chairman wanted him to to take over from their chairman and resume the Saturday’s session for voting the motion they wanted to pass.

Video of the fight circulated in the social networks and Somali television speaking made on their headlines the incident and thousands watched shared clips of the fistfight.

The people of Somaliland expressed their disapproval and find the whole issue as national disgrace.

Cabays Media cameraman managed to videoed the incident as it happened and it is on CM ‘s Youtube channel for closed up view of the scandalous incident.

There is no official response or comment from the government on the incident as it was pushing for a motion it want the parliament to pass so it can privatise Berbera oil terminal.

And there is no new development on what followed the Saturday’s fistfight and as both officials are believed they’re immune from police investigations and their case will most likely be solved in the traditional way of Guurti involvement, as happened before when serious division on similar issue arose.

The two disgraced chairmen of Somaliland House of Representative later re-appeared and apologised for their terrible blunder they had made, but each one blamed the other for starting the fight and breaking the law by hijacking the House of Reps for political gains.

The fistfight have damaged their reputation and their apology might not be taken as serious as their scuffle and some even demanding their departure from the House.

The chairman of UCID party, Faysal Ali Warabe who spoke about the incident today blamed Baashe Mohamed Farah and accused of aggravating the situation by trying to takeover the parliament session from Mr. Erro forcefully.  Mr. Warabe also called for their immediate resignation.

The House of Representatives, however are given two weeks of break today as an attempt to defused the tensions rocketing among the MPs.

The issue base on the Somaliland MPs argument and the fistfight between chairman and his deputy is hotly contested and it won’t go away even after MPs come back from the two weeks of break.

Here is the video showing the fistfight

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