Egal bribed parliament members with a million shillings to secure victory

Evidence

As the appointed day for parliament to elect the president of the republic neared, Egal and Yassin divided between themselves the 1.5 million shillings they had collected from the Somali Central Bank and went to their homes, where they invited individual MPs to come and collect their loot. Egal took 1 million and Yassin took 500,000 shillings. The MPs came in droves, and Hussen and a companion watched the affair from inside a private car parked across the road from Egal’s Lido beach house. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1046

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters on Egal’s 1969 impeachment campaign and the corrupted presidential election that preceded the coup.