Hussen held that principled constitutional steadfastness could defeat corrupt parliamentarians

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We have the duty to educate our people and with this our representatives who are part of this population and it’s certainly not the best thing to act illegally under the impulse of passion: according to me it’s all about not accepting bribes of the representatives, always staying the course according to our convictions and letting the government fall until the representatives have convinced themselves that they cannot win with immorality. It is this steadfastness in the constitution and the legal business, which will straighten out things, and steadfastness can only be obtained by those who are not afraid to lose their position. The more that they confuse, perhaps unknowingly, their interests to stay in position, with the interests of the country and the people—this makes everything go backwards in the discouragement of the personality of the people that barely just got out of enslavement. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 863

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• XREF: This is Hussen’s own doctrine — a primary-grade historical source statement on his political philosophy of anti-corruption constitutionalism.
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