Redundancy rounds in Somalia normally spared senior staff and protected lower grades

Evidence

Finally, with regard to the “letters of cessation of service” served to a number of civil servants, the attention of the Honourable Members of the National Assembly is called on the fact that it has never been in the practice to dismiss top or senior civil servants when a reduction of personnel is to be applied, and also that while such reduction normally affects the lower grades of the Civil Service Scale, favourable conditions are usually reserved to that category of people as far [as] terminal benefits and other connected privileges are concerned. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 810