Hussen once plotted to kill a colonial officer before abandoning the attempt.
Evidence
Hussen went directly from prison to the local blacksmith and asked him to make the sharpest knife possible. His intention was to finish this British colonialist. With the knife in his possession Hussen decided to provoke the commissioner at work the following morning by hiding the station’s batteries. When Fitzpatrick came to the office, he could not find the batteries and called for Ardon to fetch Hussen. Hussen took his time responding. As Hussen entered the office Fitzpatrick, waiting at the door, tripped him, and a brawl ensued. Hussen’s knife was concealed in the belt of his shorts, but it shifted to his back as the two men wrestled. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 205
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims