Fired civil servants rallied around Sharmarkee and Egal during the 1967 campaign.

Evidence

Sharmarkee and Hussen had a heated exchange again on June 26 when they met in the offices of the Speaker of parliament to talk about protocol and procedural matters pertaining to the transfer of power. The spark that started the exchange was the presence of Nicolino Mohamed who accompanied Sharmarkee and apparently drafted the material. Hussen objected to Nicolino’s presence since the latter was one of the director generals he fired in the 1965 shake-up of the civil service. Nicolino and several of those fired then had coalesced around Sharmarkee and Egal during the campaign, and Nicolino became an aide to Sharmarkee. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 991