Hussen sequenced popular bills first to exhaust parliament before the contentious purge votes

Evidence

Hussen organized his government’s presentations in parliament in such a way that the most popular bills, in a list of twenty-three agenda items, were taken up first and the contentious items were left to the last. Among the popular bills was one allowing the government to support the family of deceased General Hersi and earmarks for pensions for the veterans of the Ethiopia-Somalia conflict of 1964. It appears that the prime minister’s strategy was to exhaust the opposition with other details and some popular bills before they got to his administrative reform. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 817