Somali police chiefs pre-armed nationalists before the January demonstration

Evidence

On the evening before the demonstration, one of the Somali police chiefs, Abdi Jire, told Muro (who was visiting) that there might be trouble when the demonstration took place the next day. He instructed Muro that he should prepare the party’s supporters to get guns from the police station in case the Italians used force against the petitioners. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1214