Civil service transfers became a flashpoint in the 1967 transition of power.

Evidence

Before Sharmarkee took office he complained to Osman that Hussen and his ministers were engaged in massive transfer of civil servants to different locations in the country to undermine the new government. Osman tried to calm the president-elect, but to no avail, and then called the caretaker prime minister to ask him what the fuss was all about. Hussen’s response was that the few changes they were making had been in process before the election and were routine and that his actions paralleled what Prime Minister Sharmarkee did in 1964. Osman was not happy with this answer and told Hussen that the circumstance was different then since he was president before and after the election. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 990