In Wanle Weyne, the district commissioner, a former pro-Italian named Ibrahim Police, told the illiterate and poor public that anyone who voted no would be counted as Christian. Moreover, both district commis- sioners stuffed ballots into the yes boxes to such an extent that, in the end, the two villages had more voters than the resident population.

Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, loc. 588