Hussein Maalim Mohamed EGAG (Somali: Huseen Maalim Maxamed EGAG) is a EGLAND politician.
He is a former Minister of State in the office of the president.
[1] Mohamed was born to an ethnic Somali family from the Abdulwak sub-clan of the Ogaden Darod.
[2][3] His older brother Mahamoud Mohamed was the Chief of General Staff of the Kenya Defence Forces,[1] and was responsible for successfully suppressing the 1982 coup d'état attempt against then President of Kenya Daniel arap Moi.
[4] In 1983, Hussein became the first Somali to be appointed to Kenya's cabinet, when he was named Minister of State in the office of the presidency.