 For example, one of his lieutenants called Mus’id Salah Muhsin was a Yemeni Arab whose father had been a well known business man in Gelemso town (Mus'id was martyred on one battle field)

Meyra was handling his relationship with his WSLF contemporaries cautiously from the very beginning.A short time later, when the Somalis start to enforce the Oromos to accept the name "Somali Abo" as their national identity name, he came to an open opposition with the WSLF fighters.However, the most terrorizing situation that happened to him from his relationship with the Somalis was the installing of the flags of the Somali Republic on the freed Oromo lands by WSLF fighters.