The government timed mass dismissals to avoid immediate parliamentary challenge

Evidence

The timing of the announcement was not accidental as parliament was not in session, and this gave the government until late April before legislators could challenge it. Meanwhile, the government prepared a cluster of bills, including the nationalization of retail trade and the dismissal bill, to be submitted to parliament when it reconvened in April. President Osman fundamentally supported the bill. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 797