Parliament passed the integrated Act of Union by acclamation in January 1961

Evidence

The committee’s first draft appeared in September and was unanimously approved by the Interior subcommittee of the National Assembly. However, it was not until mid-January 1961 that the act was voted on in parliament through acclamation, despite three Northern MPs, Abdillahi Ahmed, Osman Garad, and Ibrahim Id, reporting to President Osman that they did not consent. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 532

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Somalia’s Assembly passed the Act of Union unanimously in 1961 by acclamation (similarity 0.83)
• The UN-supported Integration Committee drafted a single unified Act of Union (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The Act of Union was only formally ratified months later with retroactive effect #expands (0.60)