Osman valued democratic election over efficient provision even amid inexperience.

Evidence

We in Somalia cannot boast of having done much in terms of ameliorating the quality of life of the people, but at least the people do not have a master, and those in power have been democratically elected by the same people even if it has been demonstrated that it is not efficient, but this is only because of inexperience and because of the lack of means. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 960

Categorization

• XREF: Direct primary evidence of democratic values that echoes the earlier claim that Somalia led the continent democratically — usable as a closing quotation in any narrative of the first republic.