Hussen’s purge targeted roughly 450 senior and middle civil service posts
Evidence
At the end of the meeting it became clear that about 450 senior and middle level jobs in the civil service were targeted. Reform started at the very top and the directors general of ministries were the first to feel the heat. Seven of the sixteen directors were dropped from service, notably Nicolino Mohamed of Foreign Affairs, Hassan Gudal of Education, and Jama Gani of Information. Others were transferred to new appointments, such as Ali Said Arraleh, who was moved from Finance to Public Works and Communication as shown in table 6.4. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 790
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Hussen’s 1967 reform dismissed or transferred roughly 450 senior civil servants (similarity 0.92)
- Hussen’s civil service purge preceded African state reform by three decades (similarity 0.80)
- Hussen’s purge bills cleared parliament by widening margins (similarity 0.80)
- Hussen suspected many senior employees of corruption and foreign espionage (similarity 0.79)
- Abdirazak Hussen insisted on purging unqualified senior civil servants despite ministerial reluctance (similarity 0.79)