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Prime Minister Hussen's corruption dismissals introduced prosecution of ministers in Somalia

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aliases@samatar_africas_2016, loc. 834

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Prime Minister Hussen’s corruption dismissals introduced prosecution of ministers in Somalia

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The important political development … has been the dismissal of the Minister of Industry and Commerce, the Minister of Agriculture and the Under-Secretary of Agriculture… . The dismissals were due to charges of corruption. This is an epoch-making development. No longer will the appointment to a ministerial post mean a license to rob… . Another important political fact is that the dismissal of a minister because he has been charged with corrupt practices is a development we could not possibly have expected from any of our prime ministers. The present Prime Minister has his faults—certainly many of them. But it would be neither fair nor honourable to deny him the support and praise he deserves for re-establishing the principle that even ministers cannot afford to be caught in compromising situations, involving the misuse of public funds or power of office. A third important aspect—perhaps the most important—is that the Attorney General’s office has applied to the National Assembly for authorization to institute criminal proceedings against the two ministers and the Under-Secretary. Such a request must be moved in the assembly by a fifth of its members and must be approved by a two-thirds majority in a secret ballot. The request for the authorization to prosecute in respect of at least ex- Minister of Industry and Commerce is believed to have been submitted to the President of the National Assembly some months ago. The one in respect of the Minister of Agriculture was apparently submitted at about the time of or after his dismissal… . The general belief in informed circles is that the requests for authorization were kept from examination in the last session by the President of the National Assembly. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 834

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  • QUESTION: Who was President of the National Assembly at this time, and was the withholding of prosecutorial requests politically motivated against Hussen?
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