Osman wielded the threat of dissolving parliament as a political weapon

Evidence

General Mohamed Abshir, the police commissioner, who saw the president later that day, was instead convinced that a new parliament would have substantially better-educated and more nationalistic members. … It seems that Osman came to the conclusion that the mere threat of disbanding parliament was sufficient threat to those who endangered the national interest. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 618