Parliament overrode President Osman’s veto to double its own salaries.

Evidence

Osman found the bill offensive and used his veto power to send it back to parliament, with an explanation that the bill was inappropriate at this point in time. President Osman felt that it would be difficult for supporters of the bill to muster the necessary two-thirds vote to overcome his objections, but the MPs had other convictions. The Speaker of parliament, who claimed to be opposed to the bill, reopened the debate after supporters of the bill failed to garner the two-thirds majority necessary to override the veto. On October 8, 1961, seventy-five of the eighty-four members present passed the bill and thus had the necessary two-thirds to override the veto. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 618