Auditors began coordinating with criminal investigators to catch corrupt officials

Evidence

On a different scale, the auditing service of the government was put on new footing and began to coordinate with the investigative agency, the Criminal Investigation Department. One of the first joint auditor and investigative agency actions took place in Hargeisa. Over the previous year the police had noticed two government employees in Hargeisa who seemed to have a lot more money than they were paid and who took weekend trips to Aden (now Yemen). Mogadishu dispatched an auditor to Hargeisa to look into the affair. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 826

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the broader theme of post-independence state-building and anti-corruption drives in Africa’s early democracies, comparable to Nkrumah-era Ghana or Nyerere’s Tanzania.