The government sought a public voice vote to make no-confidence harder for dissenters.

Evidence

Shaken by the crisis, the government was eager to gain support in the assembly and proposed a motion that would allow the vote of confidence to be a voice vote rather than a secret ballot. When Osman directly asked the prime minister to clarify his stand on the motion, the latter responded by claiming that a voice vote was the standard in many parts of the world. Osman was dismayed by Abdullahi Issa’s action and tried to convince the government to withdraw the motion in order to reduce the tension between it and the opposition. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 408