Somalia’s first internal self-government cabinet ministers had to be persuaded they were competent

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Anzillotti nominated Abdullahi Issa as prime minister and asked him to form Somalia’s first internal self-government. Issa had a difficult time convincing the most literate of the assembly members to join his cabinet. They were reluctant because they did not feel they had the competency and experience to manage public affairs and did not want to humiliate themselves in public. After much cajoling they consented to serve. The five ministers were Haji Musa Boqor (Interior minister), Haji Farah Ali Omer (minister of Economic Affairs), Sheikh Ali Jimale (minister of Social Affairs), Salaad Abdi Mohamoud (minister of Finance), and Mohamoud Abdi Nur (Juujo) (minister of Labor and General Affairs). The administrator retained three portfolios (foreign affairs, defense, and external trade). — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 337