Business, indeed, according to some sceptical Somali commentators, was what the transitional national government was essentially about. Its leading figures were business partners with interests in Djibouti shared with Ismail ‘Omar Geelle. One new senior minister, indeed, openly boasted that he was only with the T.N.G. for the money, and it was not long before charges of corruption were to be levelled, leading to the resignation of the Prime Minister whose relations with the President were conspicuously at odds.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 682