IS IT A SMEAR OR A REALITY ABOUT THE SITUATION IN ETHIOPIA

Comment by Berhanu Tesfaye
on



“Oppositions and Supporters Endless Smear Campaign
Written by Matheza in four parts”




Introduction

I have read the article and would like to leave ideas on what people said and write because they’re able to substantiate their ideas. But i will focus on the pertinent issue that the writer wants to underline his ideas on. As to me some are raised on the realities as well my experiences when I was serving the last two regimes but that does not mean I was a member of the former WPE or the later EPRDF.
It is easy to write but is hard to criticize unfounded realities by bringing realities which the other party could not open eyes to accept them but I will try my best.

Having cleared the controversial ones i will try to put my ideas together to say it is a collection of crap idea to mislead the few because it is written in English, that is t to say, it is written to few Ethiopians where the radios could not address them as well i found it unfounded argument due to that accumulation of ideas from the regimes propagandas which are aired daily.

Let I come to the point.

§ The writer tells us that the Diaspora as well the oppositions are demoralized by his intelligence, capability ……respect in the international community.

As to me respect come from oneself and the second important respect has to come from the people who are administered and this comes from the respect ion of the basic Human Rights of the citizen and to abide ones written constitution and serving the people according to the law

What we need is the respect of our people but not the ones who drive us from behind us as a rabid dog and we as Ethiopians do not need to be told by others but we have to be told by our people that we run justice not tyranny, but my critic to your unfounded idea is hat let the people of Gambella massacred in 2003 ,people of Sidama who are shot by the bullets of the federal police ,the people of Ogaden who are bombed by the brutal Air Force tell us about what disrespect their own government had on them, those who died in Jimma due to the orchestration of cadres (Christian/Moslem) and those innocent people who are behind the bars(prisons) in Zwai, Kaliti ,Denkoro Chaka, Shewa Robit etal speak about what your crap respect.
To add insult to cover the reality the writer tells us about intelligence of our Prime minister and would like to tell about what intelligence at school and in administration are, sometimes they are interrelated if only if some brought them to apply in their day to day activities. But what Leggesse brought and practiced in the nation is a replica what he was dreaming at the high school he was attending. The reality looks as if that he want to achieve what he lost in this time for four years.






Scenario at General Wingate School:

Head Boy: Amhara /Oromo/Amhara /Oromo
Deputy Head boy: Oromo/Amhara/Oromo/Amhara
Prefects: from all ethnic groups
Head cleaners; from all ethnic groups

This was the scenario at his stay in high school after 17 years of struggle that boy which I also know him at least as an outstanding student came up with the same formula and tried to form his transitional government and still the formula is practiced in the government he think is good functioning it includes the writer himself. Is that a model from one of the development paradigms or is it amalgamated with the socio economic conditions of the country? It depends how you see it because for a myopic visionary it is the best model but does not contribute to the development of the nation.
This is blinded vision put on Ethiopians while most countries in the world trying to come together our brilliant Prime Minister is cooking for us a time bomb which never bring the citizens of the country together.


§ The writer Mathza tells us about security ,territorial integrity ,national interest and security…to me as far as I know this government of EPRDF who is run by Leggesse Zenawi do not care anything about the above and he also know that they are words and only words because of the following reasons;

I was working in one of the dissolved corporations during the fall of the Military regime and during the transition period we have shortage of cotton bags and we tried to import from Tanzania with USD 2.50 which is equivalent to almost ETB 5.00 but what all the stooges cared about was Alcohol factories in Asmara and told us to import at a price of ETB12 which has to be paid in kind brown sugar from Metehara as well to be transported.
With trucks with plate numbers ER. Here we see what the words mean to the EPRDF, I leave judgment to the writer.

As i was reading these words what remind me was the day article 39 was passed in the parliament and know the writer is telling us the EPRDF government is concerned about integrity ,sovereignty and national interest, that is Ethiopians pay some about one month resource for the blunder done by this government from inception.

§ Sound economic policies which the write tells us that there is growth and successful strategies to break the vicious circle in the country as i read this what it reminds me is that in 1977/78 there was a catastrophic situation in the country and after the help of the world we were breathing an air and one of the person who admire saw the activities were stopped which were done and told his cadre no problem Debela Teff kebela. If yes you are right but the strategies of the government as well the policies are myopic without a vision that is why every year we are dependant of alms from the international community rather than self sufficiency. Let i remind you in 1996 Ethiopia exported 20 thousand quintals of maize but in Gamo People were dying of hunger and the prime minister said we thought twenty years to be self sufficient but we reached within few years which was a crap. To add to insult let i tell you how some of our policies are formulated i did not bring it from heaven it is written on the field visit report of the former American president Jimmy Carter, I and Meles(Leggesse because i prefer the name i know because Meles Tekle died as a fighter not as a villain ) went to Awassa to visit my demonstration fields launched by Sasakawa Global 2000 and he was very excited to see the results and after we came back to Addis Ababa he called his Minister of Agriculture and Launched Padets as a country program and after a years we focused on post harvest because he has registered more than million farmers in the program. Yes my friend it happens all over again it is an old wine in a new bottle.

If we see the flamboyant policy of the country you are talking about is about destitution the people and putting Ethiopian in an open prison and if you are aware that what the government tells us is always the second version of the theatre written by the junta and exercised by EPRDF because we starving when the junta tells us we are growing at this rate at that rate which is the same what I hear now.

The other issue you raised is that about the policy the success of policy is manifested in terms of Education, Health care, social cohesion, infrastructure and alleviation of poverty. If we take the above I will not try to annoy you by bringing numbers but I will raise the escalation on the down ward nature of the quality in the above situations. We have to accept that the construction of schools or clinics or roads (infrastructure) by itself is not a goal they have to be equipped with the necessary resources (Human, financial. logistics etc)but what in reality seen are clinics without a single cooking material for syringes, schools with out books and other facilities sometimes without teachers, schools teaching teen ages without proper sanitation facilities ,schools or clinics without maintenance budgets, roads constructed to be used by three cars per year etc.

Here one can see the sound policy of the government according to the writer with escalating numbers in HIV/AID, Tuberculosis, Malaria and water born diseases.

§The third issue which I raise is that the success of the Prime Minister to mobilize foreign funds and assistance to the development of the country, that is he is good at begging foreigners since he needs to rely on donors and other government source rather than mobilise the resources at hand because he is smart due to that these are hot moneys to stash them some where or to buy armaments to kill and harass the people of Ethiopia as well are easy to allocate them to spy on his own people outside of the country rather than try to feed his own sisters/brothers(which he does not accept).
By the way it is in recent years Ethiopia depend to ear mark the annual budget more than a third from foreign source without producing foreign currency earning. It is true the prime minister will do what ever ordered to do if there is money flowing for repression as he has did in Somalia may be he will do it in other parts as a hand of legal mercenary. Sorry for those who sacrifice their life for unjust wars and repressions?

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