Public vigilance thwarted the SYL’s ballot-stuffing in Galkayo.

Evidence

In Galkayo, Election Day ended peacefully, but the regime was eager to steal the two seats. Earlier in the day, they sent a special police plane carrying Yassin’s aide to oversee the count. At the end of the day all boxes containing ballots were brought to the district headquarters, and the administrator claimed that it was too late in the day to count the votes and ordered that the ballot boxes be locked in storage until the morning. Once the public became aware of this decision a large contingent of Hussen’s followers came to the center and told the authorities that they would keep watch during the night. When the counting was done the following day the DAP came in first and the SYL second. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1022