Osman taxed all state salaries to fund flood relief

Evidence

What made the parliamentary act incomprehensible to the president and the few MPs who opposed it was the devastation to many communities caused by the two perennial rivers in the country, Shabelle and Juba, overflowing their banks while MPs were focused on raising their salaries. … The president instituted a temporary levy on all state employee salaries, including the president and parliamentarians, to support the victims of the flood. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 619