Vice
President Dr. Isatou Touray has wondered whether legislators of National
Assembly do know the limits of their responsibility.
“Do
you know what you should be engaged in and not to be engaged in?” she asked.
What is your role? She further enquired.
Vice
President Dr. Touray was speaking in response to the issues raised by the
members of the Assembly during the adjournment debate on Monday.
“I
have heard that lot of you have been invited to Somalia in your private
capacity not as National Assembly Members (NAMs), she said, adding that the
minister for Foreign Affairs should have been put in picture for a due and
right procedure.
VP
Touray argued that being a NAM does not give one the wherewithal and grab the
opportunity to go and listen to somebody and come. “I am not saying you should
not advocate, but there are procedural matters and that certain governance has
its own procedures,” she noted.
VP
Touray further said that the minister for Foreign Affairs will sensitise the
National Assembly Members of their roles when it comes foreign affairs matters.
“Yes,
we are in a democracy; in a democracy that has a rule based democracy
procedure,” she pointed out.
The
VP, however, acknowledged that lawmakers have the right to visit any country
but within the required procedures.
