Anti-corruption prosecutions lost witnesses who fled to Ethiopia in 1965

Evidence

There was no let up in the fight, and numerous cases were brought to court in 1965. In one case, again in Hargeisa, the government lost its witness, who fled to Ethiopia: “Abdulkadir Abdi Dualeh, Assistant District Commissioner at Gebile in 1964, teacher at the Hargeisa Trades School and sometime businessman, who was potentially a key witness in the Government’s case against former Hargeisa Governor Said Abdillahi Warsama, Deputy Governor Abdi Aden Nur and several senior officials for alleged embezzlement of So.Shs. 1.5 million, escaped to Ethiopia November 15, 1965. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1438

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the theme of Ethiopia as a refuge for Somali dissidents and the border-dynamics theme established in earlier chapters on the 1964 clash.