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Tripoli-- Libya’s National Congress on Sunday approved a new Interior Minister to replace Ashour Shuwail who resigned two weeks ago.
The new Interior Minister is Mohamed Khalifa Al-Sheikh, a professional policeman who had held number of security positions.
Al-Sheikh is to face the challenge to bring security to the country by activating the police force and disarm the many militias that are taking the law into their hands.
But a member of the National Congress told Reuters on Sunday that Sheikh “had positive relations with the revolutionaries” who are in fact the armed men who either took part in the uprising against the dead dictator Gaddafi in 2011 or those who acquired arms after the fall Tripoli in 20 August 2011.
The question remains whether Al-Sheikh and as a result of his positive relations with the armed groups will be able to disarm them or will he be defending the status quo which is not acceptable by the great majority of the Libyan people.
It has been reported that the members of the National Congressed were surprised upon taking their seat for the Sunday session to find on their desks a flyer saying that Al-Sheikh was a member in the Gaddafi’s infamous Revolutionary Committees. But at the end he was approved for the job.
Sheikh, from Tripoli's eastern Souq al-Jumaa neighborhood, previously worked in various police stations in the capital and taught at a training academy before the 2011 war broke out.
He is said to have been in charge of the Tripoli operations room after the capital fell to rebels in August 2011. He later worked in the interior ministry and became an adviser to the president of the National Congress on security matters.
Ninety-nine out of 124 congress members present at the Sunday session voted to approve Sheikh as the new minister, the assembly's media office said.
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