1: The Arithmetic of Absurdity
Rarely has a fraud allegation so thoroughly discredited itself. Former MP, @MPDrAbib’s claim of a $1.35 billion theft from USAID’s Somalia operations—a sum tripling the program’s annual budget—collapsed under the weight of its own arithmetic absurdity. The sheer scale defies logic:
3.2 years of USAID’s total Somalia funding vanishing overnight
$3.7 million stolen daily without detection
59% of all U.S. humanitarian aid to Somalia since 2017
Such numbers belong to fantasy, not forensic accounting. The claim’s implausibility wasn’t a flaw—it was the signature of its fabrication.”

Understanding The Arithmetic of Absurdity

2: The Forensic Void

“Legitimate fraud investigations require:
✓ Forensic audits (chain-of-custody documentation)
✓ Protected whistleblowers (firsthand testimony)
✓ Verifiable paper trails (bank records, contracts)
Abiib’s ‘exposé’ lacked all three. His $1.3B allegation materialized with:
✗ No leaked documents (not one contract or invoice)
✗ No named witnesses (zero whistleblowers came forward)
✗ No methodology (Tweets substituted for evidence)
When allegations rely on theatrical claims rather than arithmetic or evidence, the fraud lies not in the system—but in the accuser’s mirror.”

3: The Institutional Verdict

The U.S. Embassy—USAID’s operational partner in Mogadishu—issued a rare public rebuke: Abiib’s $1.3B fraud claim was ‘baseless and lacking evidentiary basis.’ His response? No documents. No audits.
Just a verbatim deflection: “Instead of addressing these concerns, I faced harassment from the U.S. Ambassador to Somalia.”
The Embassy’s dismissal triggered @MPDrAbib ’s tactical shift—from unsubstantiated fraud claims to unsubstantiated harassment allegation
This completed the telltale cycle:
Fabricate an unfalsifiable allegation ($1.3B ‘stolen’ without paper trails)
Ignore institutional rebuttals (Embassy’s on-record dismissal)
Pivot to victimhood (harassment claims as smokescreens)