Cabinet expansion in 1960 was guided by tribalism over competence

Evidence

The prime minister proposed enlarging the cabinet to nine ministers and five undersecretaries. Osman noted in his diary that skilled and more educated people were left out of the cabinet because political expediency and tribalism guided the process: Many ambitious individuals are disappointed, among whom is Omer Hassan, already undersecretary of justices, who expected to be become a minister. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 395