Hussen alone warned that stripping MP immunity invited government intimidation.

Evidence

Hussen focused his criticism on this agenda and used his party and parliament platform to alert MPs and the population about what was at stake. He informed those in parliament who would listen to him that the regime’s strategy was for MPs to commit political suicide, as they would not be safe from government intimidation outside the parliament building. Hussen underscored the gradual erosion of civil service autonomy and cited a number of civil servants who had been dumped by the regime without the due process afforded by the Civil Service Commission. Despite the huge majority the government had in parliament it appears that it was worried about Hussen’s voice and consequently monitored his house and his movements, as one senior policeman reported to the former prime minister. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1036