By KEN RAMANI
The Federal Transition Parliament of Somalia will next week adopt a bill detailing the relocation plan.
At the same President Abdullahi Yusuf yesterday appealed to Somali MPs to nurture unity for the sake of peace in their country.
He was speaking at a Nairobi hotel where he hosted 223 MPs to lunch.
The luncheon was the first get-together since the MPs engaged in a brawl at another Nairobi hotel on March 17.
The MPs had disagreed over the city where the transitional government will be housed and also the idea of accepting troops from front-line states-Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti.
Yesterday President Yusuf shared the high table with the Speaker Sheikh Hassan Adam whom most MPs blamed for taking sides in the debate over the relocation of the government.
Other officials included several Cabinet ministers, the Chief Justice Yusuf Mire and the communications director in the Prime Minister’s Office, Mr Hussein Jabiri.
The Prime Minister Prof Ali Mohammed Ghedi, accompanied by his deputy, Hussein Aideed and the governor of Somalia’s Central Bank were said to have travelled to Libya to discuss details of financial aid to be given by President Muammar Gaddafi.
Yusuf said the MPs will also discuss and adopt the Igad Council of Foreign ministers resolution on the sending of a peace mission to Somalia.
Parliament will also discuss the possibility of going on recess for about three months to allow MPs to travel and meet their constituents.
"During the recess, the MPs will also establish district/regional administrative organs," explained Jabiri who translated for The Standard President Yusuf’s un-written speech which he delivered in Somali language.
And one of the MPs yesterday appealed to the Government of Kenya to intervene in a conflict in Elwak side of Somalia.
He claimed that at least 30 people were massacred on Saturday during a clan fighting.
"The war is taking place eight KMs from the common border with Kenya. If not controlled, it will easily spillover to Kenya," explained MP Ibrahim Isaak.
He said since there is no government in Somalia, Kenya had a humanitarian responsibility to the people of the region.
"Let the violence be nipped in the bud before it gets out of hand. The violence is not helping anybody, leave alone those involved in blood-letting" said Isak.
Meanwhile, 11 MPs from the Somalia Parliament have left for their country out of frustrations.
Sources said the group of MPs are some of the renegades that pushing for the relocation of Parliament to Mogadishu, with or without President Yusuf.
The group is insisting that the Somalia Charter be respected as it says Mogadishu is the capital city.
Other reports said more than 30 MPs arrived in the capital yesterday to stake their support for Mogadishu as the seat of power.