Opposition MPs attacked Hussen’s second government as illegal for exceeding the fourteen-minister constitutional limit.

Evidence

Nearly two and a half months after the first government was voted down by parliament, on September 27, the day of reckoning came. Parliament had begun its debate three days earlier, and the most ardent critics were a few diehards in the SYL and the SNC. Haji Musa Boqor and Ahmed Allor took the lead and were followed by the SNC’s Mohamed Ibrahim Egal and Sheikh Ali Jimale. Both groups pointed to the “illegality” of the government given that its size exceeded the constitutional limit of fourteen ministers, including the prime minister. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 760