Hussen, while vice president of the bank and not a government employee, could not access this credit, although he had some deposits in the bank from his dual income. During his tenure in the two ministries he did not build a home. Most Somali officials who built houses using bank credit rented them, rather than living in them as was required by the terms of the loan.

Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, loc. 723