“I am a Somali citizen.”
I wrote about Abdi Daisane, whose day care center received $7.2 million in taxpayer money despite repeated violations, and whose wife reportedly said, “I smuggled myself and jumped over the wall”, in my article on the Somali electoral pipeline.
The day care center owner just flipped a Republican Minnesota State House seat in St. Cloud. And Alpha News reveals that he previously ran for office… in Somalia.
According to an English translation of a October 2021 campaign video published by Jubbaland TV, Daisane, speaking directly to the camera, says, “I am a candidate for Member of Parliament in the House of the People of the Federal Republic of Somalia.”
He continues, saying, “I am a Somali citizen hailing from Jubbaland. I was born in the nation’s capital, Mogadishu, in 1988,” according to the translation.
In the October 2021 Jubbaland TV video, Daisane said he received refugee status in the United States. He also touted his business experience in America, saying he had established businesses that provided jobs and services to members of the Somali community.
“I employed many Somalis, and those who needed our services received them from those businesses that I organized and managed over the past few years,” he said, according to an English translation of the video.
Bizarrely enough, this kind of thing isn’t even unusual among Somali occupiers in Minnesota. I wrote about one such case earlier this year.
One of the first Somali fraud cases cases involved the abuse of Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) by day cares with fraud amounting to an estimated $100 million in 2015.
Minnesota Child Care Services which got its license in 2012 and a year later was already the single largest recipient of (CCAP) funds for the next two years during which time it also accumulated ‘corrections’ for not keeping proper staff records, staff qualifications, cleanliness and crib violations, was one of a number of organizations targeted in the fraud investigations.
Investigators also discovered that during just one two week period the Somali day care center billed “for 950 children who did not actually attend the center”, that it billed for children on days when no children attended, and the center was also accused of providing kickbacks to parents.
Abdirizak Ahmed Gayre, its director, and Ibrahim Awgab Osman, its assistant director, were barred from “working or having an ownership interest in any licensed child care provider in Minnesota” for only two years.
Gayre engaged in prolonged litigation with Minnesota’s Department of Human Services over his ban. Meanwhile in 2019, an accident report reported a crash by a Freightliner truck by a 57-year-old driver named Ibrahim Awgab Osman. While there is no direct confirmation that this was the same Osman, the day care Osman had been described as 53 years old in 2015.
An Awgab delivery company in Minnesota was set up shortly after the day care fraud case and was registered under a name and at an address and phone number that was also used to set up a home health aid organization in Minneapolis that faced several violations and corrections.
A woman with the last name of Awgab was listed as its manager, as well as the former manager of yet another Somali health care company, who had worked previously as an election canvasser. Public records appear to also place Ibrahim Awgab Osman at that same address.
The number also matches yet another health care company, this one in Nashville, TN, set up back in 2011, whose director was named as Ibrahim Osman. It is not clear if any of these people are actually related or the same person, but the overlaps do raise significant questions.
And what is far more extraordinary is that in 2021, a Senator Ibrahim Awgab Osman (pictured above) was elected to Somalia’s legislature. The Somali senator’s Facebook page however described him as living in Minnesota. In 2023, the Somali senator put a Freightliner truck up for sale. The email used for the sale offer appears to be linked to the Awgab trucking company.
In 2021, while serving as a Somali legislator, Sen. Osman’s Facebook page displayed photos of him and his family voting in what appears to be a Minnesota election. The red ‘I Voted’ stickers in the photos match those used in Minnesota elections. Not only did a foreign official appear to be voting in American elections, but he was bragging about doing it on social media.
There have been allegations that multiple Somali elected officials were running health care companies in America. Now they’re also getting elected in America.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield
