Minister Sheikh Ali used state medical funds to buy political favors.

Evidence

In one instance, the minister of Finance, Abdulkadir Zoppo, reported to the prime minister and the president that Sheikh Ali was using public resources to support his friends: Sheikh Ali Jumale continues his bad faith policy of bribing the people for his aims: he is sending to Italy sick people for medical treatment at the expense of the state, even if they are well-to-do persons like Mohamed Abdi Dhere, families of MPs like Sharif Garar and his daughter, and he calls back those who do not return the favor to him like the brother of the member of the Assembly Ali Gaal, from whom he expected to vote in his favor at the presidential election. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 615

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the clientelist use of public resources that later chapters presumably trace into the system’s collapse.