Petitioners exposed redundancies as pretext to reward loyalists with inflated posts
Evidence
- As regards the new employments, the attention of the Honourable Members of the National Assembly is particularly called on the fact that while personnel enrolled in the Permanent Civil Service and occupying either senior or junior posts have been dismissed, new employments of pensioners (see Assistant Directors General) of daily paid personnel and contract staff have been effected thus causing a far greater burden on the national budget and in a way which is openly incompatible with any criteria of budget austerity which is claimed to have inspired the so called need for reduction of redundant personnel. We also consider that it is not equitable to allow the Government to engage certain elements as experts, as is the case of the Assistant Directors General with salaries amounting to more than double the salary of Directors General when it is known that the people enjoying these privileges are not experts and have no right to a special or different wage treatment, plus their pensions. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 808
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the broader narrative of Aden Osman and Abdirazak’s rivalry with the new government purging civil servants — a key episode in early Somali democracy.