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1/9
Since your reaction to my tweet generated broad interest let me offer this breakdown lest it gets entangled with other trivial or personal issues:

"Dont know much about @ahmednasirlaw" [true]

"Hope he gets a fair treatment & apolitical due process"[well-wishing] https://twitter.com/ahmednasirlaw/status/1277853673436123136
2/9

*….learned of him was when he came out swinging in defense of Somalia's Houdinis of corruption after I wrote an article by that same title. [true]

*Learned later he was their top hired gun.
[true but I must explain more....]
3/9
Disclosure: In past 24 hrs I received more DMs than I care to read. Some said you were good/generous person being targeted for domestic politics…others said you ‘had it coming’…yet others said whole thing was orchestrated by vicious people who wanted to settle a score with.
4/9

I try my very best to stay away from gutter politics or any personal issue that is motivated by bitterness or deep-seated ill will.…]

Going back to whether being Houdinis of corruption’s “top hired gun” claim:
5/9
As a prominent lawyer (& senior partner of a lobbying firm), I suspect you are a man of reason. So let me use you own tweet (defense) to dispel my claim as ‘EXHIBIT 1’....
6/9
You tweeted: "Never visited Mogadishu in my life. Never met the President and PM of Somalia…. And I have never been instructed formally or informally to be "their top hired gun."
Brother, I can understand if you are too humble to acknowledge, but you are their hired top gun
7/9

1)You are the only one I know in aforementioned profession with 1 million followers
2)You are Houdinis of corruption fiercest & most eloquent defender in social media
3)The fact that you never visited Mogadishu in you never met the Houdinis in person is immaterial at best
8/9
You know very well that lobbyists could be under lucrative contracts without ever setting a foot in their clients' capital cities & without ever meeting their clients. You also know they cud be hired by a 3rd party. Ask the Houdinis if they met all their lobbyists in person.
9/9

4)Your time is money….(understandably so). But if you as a lawyer/lobbyist were providing all your services (Operation Shield The Houdinis) free of charge which your prerogative….then I say: That was mighty generous of you.

All the best!
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