Abdirazak opposed genealogically motivated civil-service transfers as tribalism-strengthening

Evidence

Hussen broached the issue differently from how Egal had and argued that genealogy-driven transfers of public servants would not be just and could undermine national integration. Here is how the president reported the exchange in his diary: … He replied that to transfer public officers there must be plausible reasons, as [by] transferring them for the reasons put forward by certain people, you satisfy them, but at the same time you make others unhappy. So you end up only strengthening tribalism. There must be a legitimate premise to transfer civil servants from their posts. I find right the way of reasoning of Hussen, so I told him that anyway he, the prime minister and Mohamed Ibrahim Egal must work together to create the premises to [solve the problem]. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 627

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows Abdirazak’s principled stance against using genealogy/clan basis for civil service transfers — a defining early principle of his political career.
• XREF: Contrasts with Egal and hints at the ideological clash between Abdirazak and Egal that recurs through the book and culminates in the 1964-67 government crisis.