MPs who had betrayed Osman’s team now defended Hussen against corruption charges.

Evidence

When this strategy failed, the government team turned to another trick. They decided to accuse Hussen of misappropriating public money to the tune of 2 million shillings. They claimed that he was corrupt despite his anticorruption drive during his tenure as prime minister. Once the accusation was leaked, a number of MPs who originally betrayed the Osman-Hussen team in the presidential campaign, such as Haji Bashir Ismail, Sheikh Mukhtar (Speaker of parliament), Ibrahim Oonlaayeh, and the wealthy businessman Yusuf Egal, openly challenged the accusation. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 996