The British war effort commandeered Somali trading trucks without prompt payment

Evidence

Unfortunately, the truck broke down about sixty miles west of Mogadishu, in the Dafeed region, and the older brother had to return to the city to get parts to repair it while Hussen minded the truck. It was the rainy season, and Dafeed was a major mosquito zone. Hussen had no protection from the insects for two long days. His brother returned with the parts, they fixed the vehicle, and they proceeded to their destination. In Negele they found their brother, Big Nose. They sold the cargo in the market and then purchased another cargo that was destined for another town 120 miles west of Negele, but Hussen succumbed to malaria and could not travel. Abdisamad delivered the goods by himself, and set off for Negele. Before he reached it the British commanding officer of the area commandeered the truck for the war. The commander gave Abdisamad a letter acknowledging confiscation of the truck and his right to reimbursement from the British commissioner in Negele. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 193