SYL central committee members proposed publicly paying losing colleagues

Evidence

A few other members of the party were also inclined to take advantage of their positions. For instance, some members of the CC proposed that CC colleagues who failed to win seats in parliament should be paid by the SYL. The proposal was defeated, and Osman noted in his diary, “It is strange that many members are so immature as to make such a proposition. They do not seem to understand that the Government is legally prohibited from distributing public money to particular political groups, including the governing party.” — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1279