Hussen’s purge bills cleared parliament by widening margins

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Reporting on the final debates, the American embassy summed up the deliberation this way: Each took several hours “to unburden themselves.” However [Hussen] patiently answered each point and scathingly called attention to the failings of the “deputy who formerly occupied the place I am now holding,” i.e. [Sharmarkee]. The votes on the civil service bills were respectively, 64–44, 72–38, 72–36, and 73–33, although the later vote on the Organization of the Government (with the extra Ministry of Communication and Transport … was a closer 58–46, and [Hussen] was over the hump. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 819