Interview with Assefa Chabo – SBS Amharic

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There were smoke alerts inside the cabin of the EgyptAir passenger plane before it crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday, reports say.

Smoke was detected in the toilet and the aircraft’s electrics, just minutes before the signal was lost, according to data published on air industry website the Aviation Herald.

However, there has been no independent confirmation.

Flight MS804 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board.

Greece says radar showed the Airbus A320 had made two sharp turns and dropped more than 25,000ft (7,620m) before plunging into the sea.

Debris and body parts were found on Friday by teams searching for the wreckage of the Airbus320, Greek and Egyptian officials said.

Items including seats and luggage have also been retrieved by Egyptian search crews.

The debris was discovered about 290km (180 miles) north of Alexandria, the Egyptian military said.

European Space Agency satellites spotted an oil slick in the area where the flight had vanished – but the organisation said there was no guarantee it was from the plane.

The search is now focused on finding the plane’s flight recorders, the Associated Press news agency reports.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has expressed his “utmost sadness and regret” at the crash.

Ethiopia’s dream of reaching the U-20 AFCON Zambia 2017, for the first time since 2001, will be tested on Sunday when they entertain Ghana in a Second Round first leg clash in Addis Ababa.

Head coach of the Ethiopians, Girma Habteyohannis is upbeat about registering a positive result when his side takes on the highly rated Black Satellites.

“We have seen some match highlights of our opponent’s game. We gave our players a chance to think about what they should do when they face the Ghanaians. We have prepared well psychologically. Likewise, the fans will for sure turn up to support us and my boys will use the support as a motivation to beat Ghana,” claimed Habteyohannis.

The Junior Walias will be without midfielder Biniam Belay due to injury, but Habteyohannis remains convinced in the squad he has assembled.

“We were forced to drop some players due to injuries. Others were axed for being out of form. We worked to bring some other good players in place of the dropped ones. We still have a problem in our attacking proficiency. I believe we have worked on our finishing ability during our preparations. We all know Ghana, they are a good side. They are one of the most powerful teams in Africa. We will do our best to get a positive result against this strong side,” added Habteyohannis.

On his part, Ghana coach Didi Dramani is hoping for a better outing when the two sides lock horns.

“We don’t have much information about the Ethiopians. All that we know is that it is a qualifier. Once it is a qualifier you need to respect your opponent and keep your preparation at the highest level. Playing in a high altitude area like Addis Ababa needs a lot of strategic elements. I think we have been very positive and we carry a winning mentality. Everywhere we go, we need to carry a winning mentality in order to get the very best result,” said Dramani, who attained global fame after guiding Ghana’s U-17 women’s team to a bronze place at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2012 in Azerbaijan.

Ethiopia edged Somalia 4-1 on aggregate at the previous round whilst Ghana drew a bye.

Fixtures

Friday, 20 April 2016

Mauritania vs Mali

Saturday, 21 April 2016

Tunisia vs Senegal

Gambia vs Morocco

Cote d’Ivoire vs Guinea

Burkina Faso vs Congo

Burundi vs Nigeria

Rwanda vs Egypt

Angola vs Gabon

Mozambique vs Lesotho

Namibia vs South Africa

Sunday, 22 April 2016

Ethiopia vs Ghana

Zimbabwe vs Cameroon

The rationale for this piece:

One of the key reasons for my decision to write this piece consists in my desire, which I hope Tsegaye shares, to see Tsegaye reorient his public engagement with people who are active participants in issues that affect and shape the future of Ethiopia. It is my desire to see a redemption of Tsegaye’s mode of engagement for his own sake and for the sake of the public good. It is my deep concern with Tsegaye’s subjecting people who disagree with him to public ridicule and humiliation that led me to address my concern in public. It is also my hope that other public intellectuals and participants in public discussions and debates regarding issues that affect Ethiopia would take a note that our culture of public engagement needs a lot of change and improvement.Anyone who is following the current Ethiopian politics, especially news and developments in relation to the Oromo Protest in the last six months, would be familiar with who Dr. Tsegaye R. Ararssa is. In my view, Dr. Tsegaye is one of the more prominent intellectual faces of the Oromo Protest. Starting from this sentence, I address Dr. Tsegaye as Tsegaye, because of a friendship that spans over two decades that makes addressing a friend with a title awkward. Despite our disagreements in our views concerning Ethiopia, I have never ceased to regard Tsegaye as my friend. I address him in this piece as such.

I have witnessed Tsegaye violate the norms of public engagement with people who disagree with him, and this violation of the norms of public engagement is fast closing the public sphere. It is very likely that Tsegaye will end up being alone with no one being willing to engage him in a public arena, both in the social (Facebook) and the traditional media (TV and Radio). By “norms of public engagement” I mean to refer to (a) civility in dialogue with people with whom one disagrees on important issues, (b) respect to both the views and persons who present views that are in disagreement with one’s dialogue partner, and (c) charity in interpreting another person’s views. Some of the readers of this piece might be surprised to hear that Tsegaye has violated any of the norms of public engagement in his interactions with people who hold views with which Tsegaye disagrees.  Below I present the evidence from his writings on his Facebook that shows his pre-emptive tactic for people who could and would want to engage him in a public forum. As the evidence shows, it becomes clear that when people avoid engaging him in a public forum, he would   appear as the one who has issued an invitation for a public debate, but no one is willing to debate him in public. I show that Tsegaye’s mode of operation makes engaging him in a debate something like an invitation to engage in an exercise in an intellectual and moral morass. The one who is willing to debate him must also be willing to be the subject of personal attacks from Tsegaye in public, especially on Tsegaye’s Facebook.  Who, in his/her right mind, would be willing to be the subject of Tsegaye’s public attacks for every disagreement in their views with his views? A person who issues an invitation to debate with others and at the same time engages in a public personal attack of the people who disagreed with him is like a person who enters a competitive sport alone and ends up being  a winner, as it were. Next I present the evidence from Tsegaye’s Facebook posts and commentaries.

The Evidence:

On his Facebook page Tsegaye has offered a commentary on the Wazema radio interview of Drs. Semahegn G. Abebe and Derese G. Kassa.  His commentary was titled: “Arguing a non-issue, Answering a non-question.” The commentary was posted on May 6 at 7:47am. In that commentary Tsegaye writes, “Now, Deresse says Zewg is related to Zewd (to mean crown). (Does this guy know Amharic and the etymological roots of the word?)”.  He adds, “Apparently, intermarriage absolves the state of all constitutive wrongs.”Yes, yes, there was conquest and violence. But there was also a unity we should celebrate! Yes, unity, because we started to inter-marry! You know!”  [Note the sarcasm]. (What has marriage got to do with it? This guy must be insane.)” Furthermore, he adds, “And then, right then, he derides ethno-nationalists for being primordialists who talk of blood, genealogy, etc. Didn’t he just talk about inter-marriage and mixed births. (Truly, this guy doesn’t listen to himself. I think he needs friends who need to echo his voice to him….” He goes on to add, “The most hilarious part is that this Deresse fellow calls ethno-nationalists primordialists who lack imagination. Why?” And: “And then, Deresse waxes lyrical in praising nostalgia (longing for the past) and even arrogantly says that one can only long for the past. Really? (He doesn’t even know the difference between nostalgia and longing. How pathetic can you be, my friend?).” And he adds: “But, for now, I just can’t stop laughing at the recent tirade, this renewed scramble to generate a discourse of imperial counter-insurgency.”

Most recently, in his Facebook post titled, “Nothing is Uglier than a Poor Caricature–especially of EPRDF” (May 12 at 2:35am) among so many similar comments, Tsegaye writes, “Some self-appointed Ethiopisant ‘intellectuals’ (especially those who never read a book beyond the introduction) are trying to foment a (borrowed) hatred on the Oromo. They write from a space of (borrowed) Oromophobia to silence the discourse around the Oromoprotests. Those that dared to take their hateful and fear-mongering propaganda I have publicly engaged. I have even challenged to an open public debate. And none dared to do so. However, I am informed by friends that they are throwing their tantrums here and there on Facebook (until they re-group and come back through Wazema Radio or Sebat Kilo, etc). PS. A piece of advise [sic]: do your studies properly, read books AND finish them rather than running a thread of tantrums here and there. Tantrums don’t make up a PhD.”

In his Facebook post in which Tsegaye reposted his interview on Wazema Radio with Dr. Semahegn,  he prefaces his post by writing the following: “For the sake of the bigoted Ethiopianists (or ‘Ethiopisants’ as Ullendorf says), who listen to the voice of the ghost in their head whenever an Oromo person speaks rather than to what the latter says; for the sake of those who never want to come out and debate issues of common concern in public; for the sake of those who comfort themselves with mooshy platitudes that pass for learned discourses; I have to share this again if only to irritate them infinitely more (for I don’t otherwise owe an explanation to the idiots, especially to the bigoted breed).” [April 15, 2016 at 12:31am]. If one thinks that Tsegaye’s personal attack is limited to those with whom he disagrees on issues he publicly engaged, the following quotation, again from his Facebook, shows that there is a pattern of his attack against almost anyone who holds different views than his, especially his interpretation of things pertaining to the Oromo people.  For example, on his post on March 1, 2016 at 8:13am, 2016, Tsegaye expressed the following view regarding Menelik II and the significance of Adwa for black people, “This is also the Menelik that these nonthinking Ethiopians (averse to critical thinking while pretending to understand history or their country) are trying to celebrate as the man who fought Adwa to defend and secure the freedom of black peoples across the globe.” In this connection, in another of his Facebook posts, Tsegaye alluded to Bewketu Seyoum’s new book, Ke Amen Bashager, in which Bewketu discusses Menelink, as follows: “With all this in the background, when people come out to fetishize Adowa as a war fought and won for the emancipation of black peoples of the world, I cringe at the lie. When I see scholars, poets, lyricists, and wannabe historians (apologists of empire such as Psychologist turned poet Bewketu [Seyoum]) who seek to fabricate a new set of narratives that the old man [Menelink] himself would totally reject, I smile.” [March 1, 2016 at 1:03 pm]. Now, it is natural if some, who are familiar with Tsegaye’s media appearances on the TV and radios, would be puzzled by the evidence that is in conflict with the Tsegaye that is familiar for so many. I offer below an explanation that can mitigate the puzzling experience.  Other explanations are also available, but I do not intend to pursue them for various reasons.

Two Tsegayes:

Here is one way of understanding Tsegaye’s strategy that leads people to think that Tsegaye has not been observed violating the norms of public engagement or mistreating people who disagree with him. TSEGAYE OF THE TRADITIONAL MEDIA, the TV and Radio: In most of his TV interviews with ESAT and radio interviews/conversations with the VOA and Wazema, he restrains himself from violating the norms of public engagement or ridiculing and condescendingly dismissing others and their views. In my view, the reason for exercising restraint is easy to understand: The TV and radio interviews have a larger audience in Ethiopia, especially those who do not use the social media, and that is an important target for his purpose. Note that Tsegaye emerged as a public intellectual and an Oromo activist in the context of the Oromo Protest. So, in my view, Tsegaye acts in the traditional media appearances deliberately different posing as a public intellectual with little evidence that resembles what I presented above.  TSEGAYE OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA (Facebook): Tsegaye adopts a completely different personality for his social media operation or mode of engagement. [Note that Tsegaye’s social media audience has access to the traditional media version of Tsegaye, but the majority of those Tsegaye targets as his larger audience in Ethiopia do not have access to the Tsegaye of the social media,  and to the evidence as to how Tsegaye operates on the social media].   As the evidence above shows, on his Facebook page, he frequently belittles, ridicules people who hold different political views than his and he is condescendingly dismissive of the views of people who shared a platform, for example, on the Wazema Radio interviews. Next, I show negative effects of Tsegaye of the social media in the public arena in the current Ethiopian politics, which is a great disservice to Tsegaye as an active participant in current issues that affect Ethiopia and the broader culture of public engagement for the good of the Ethiopian people.

Tsegaye’s Media Strategy:

Of the two Tsegayes, Tsegaye of the traditional media (TV, Radio) is an amicable, apparently respectful dialogue partner. But the Tsegaye of the social media is what the evidence shows. Note this: Those same people who are targets of his public ridicule, and humiliation are observed to be the same people whom he invites to the public debate. Does Tsegaye,  it’s not clear which Tsegaye I’m talking about now, sincerely believe that his invitation is genuine, and he means what he says? Does he not have any idea what the effect of Tsegaye of the social media would have on his debate partners on the TV or radio? I bet that he does have a clear idea about the impact of his social media posts in which he engages in bullying and belittling his potential debate or discussion partners. If he has a good idea about the negative impact of his social media behavior, why does he engage in it? Here is one plausible explanation I can think of: When people who hold opposing views to his decline to engage him because of his abusive behavior, Tsegaye will appear like the only intellectual whose views no one could challenge. It is already clear that he is claiming, as I have quoted him above, that no one “dared” to engage him in a public debate despite his public invitation. I leave it to my readers to judge whether Tsegaye’s invitation is a genuine invitation for a public debate with people who hold different views in light of his public abusive behavior.

To be left without anyone to engaging him in a public debate to challenge his views seems to be the scenario he wants to emerge in the current public sphere.  This unfortunately is exactly what happens when a regime like Ethiopia’s treats its citizens, dissidents as a result of which the state media becomes the only voice without other competing voices. Likewise, Tsegaye will emerge, apparently, as “the only unchallenged voice” when it comes to promoting his views in relation to Ethiopia and as an Oromo intellectual and activist. Strikingly, when public intellectuals act the way Tsegaye of the social media acts, the public arena, especially about the debate involving the Oromo intellectuals, of whom Tsegaye is a prominent one, will look like the composition of the parliament in Ethiopia. In this case, Tsegaye of the traditional media assisted by Tsegaye of the social media, would resemble the EPRDF parliament whereas people who disagree with his views would resemble members of the opposition party, which is zero. Note that I am just drawing a striking analogy between the composition of the Ethiopian parliament, familiar for the Ethiopian readers, and the most likely scenario that seems to portray what it is like to engage Tsegaye in a public forum. I believe the last person Tsegaye wants to look like in his public behavior is the late Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi who acted as if he knew everything and everyone else was wrong. To ensure that Meles must be listened to, and emerge right about almost everything, he had to use guns to silence dissident voices. Tsegaye uses abusive public behavior to silence those who disagree with him. [Interestingly and ironically, almost every view that is presented by people who disagree with Tsegaye’s  in the current Oromo Protest,  he interprets such views  as being intended to silence the voice of the Oromo people. Even when those who disagree with him are Oromos themselves! I encourage readers to visit Tsegaye’s Facebook for evidence].   I think no one wants to see Tsegaye become “Meles Zenawi” # 2 in a public sphere where issues affecting the state of Ethiopia are being discussed, and debated without any respect to the norms of public engagement.  Even though Tsegaye can manage to appear in a winsome manner in the traditional media, his social media behavior has proved to be abortive or pre-emptive of the realization of fruitful public debates and dialogues with Tsegaye in the traditional media. It is quite astonishing for me to see a public intellectual who is becoming one of the most prominent voices against the tyrannical government in Ethiopia act and operate in a much similar manner to that very government! It is to be noted that my conception of “two Tsegayes” is a suggestion I proposed to make sense of the two quite different modes of media operations by Tsegaye. I submit that this is a mode of media operation Tsegaye has intentionally adopted for reasons I offered above.

A plea from an old friend:

Tsegaye has become a prominent champion of the value and the use of memory, and remembering past atrocities committed against the people of Ethiopia by various regimes, and people groups against other people groups in Ethiopia. Remembering is championed for the purpose of bringing about reconciliation between those who committed injustice and their victims. As an Oromo, he has become a key voice for this project. Reconciliation can come about when those who committed injustice acknowledge their role and ask their victims for forgiveness.  As a champion of the project of remembering to bring about reconciliation, I urge Tsegaye to publicly acknowledge his unfair treatment of people in public as documented above and to apologize to whoever has been a victim of his public abusive behavior. Hence, I publicly issue a plea to my old friend, as a friend, to sacrifice (to say “no” to) his abusive public behavior for his own sake and for the sake of fruitful intellectual engagement with others to contribute ideas, visions, and perspectives that can positively affect the future of Ethiopia and the quest for justice for the Oromo people, for which Tsegaye is a champion. I implore my old friend to be a responsible and an exemplary public intellectual who deeply cares about the value of character in both a public sphere as well as in one’s personal treatments of others, even those who sharply yet respectfully disagree with one’s views.

I close this piece with a couple of excerpts from Tsegaye’s emails [to me] from 2011 so that Tsegaye can be sure that I do remember and cherish our long-time friendship, which I see no reason why we cannot continue to cultivate and cherish despite our disagreements regarding issues concerning Ethiopia: On July 25, 2011 Tsegaye wrote:  “…I owe it to you to do it well, whatever it is that I choose to do. (You started me into writing, remember (?)– whether it is pieces, essays, papers, or articles, and hopefully books.) As I might have probably said it before, you are one of the folks for whose sakes I want to succeed in my academic or any other career. I owe it to you as much, my friend.” In another email the same date: “Thanks for your kind responses. No, I am not being kind. It is just my way of being grateful to you for investing in me through your books, through the long times we spent together, through the pieces we exchanged, especially when you were in Soddo [1994-1995], and through the life you modelled to me (a life of committed mind, committed passionately to the pursuit of the life of the mind). I hope your efforts will prove to be worth their whiles in the years to come.” Your wishes, my friend, have continued to be realized for quite some time and I want to say thank you, once again. I shared these couple of excerpts from Tsegaye’s old emails as a testament to our once great friendship that is now the source of my confidence that Tsegaye will take my appeal to him seriously so that he can exhibit an exemplary public presence in the days and in the years to come. Finally, I want to assure you (Tsegaye)   that I’ve forgiven you of all the things you’ve said about me on your Facebook posts without mentioning my name. I do also ask you to forgive me for anything that was not proper that I said about you without mentioning your name on my Facebook posts.  I am sure you, Tsegaye, can tell by now one more reason why I chose to write this piece in this manner. If I shared views that are in disagreement with Tsegaye’s views on my Facebook posts by mentioning his name, I could easily tell that Tsegaye would most likely say similar things he has said to others as I documented above, besides what he has said without mentioning me be my name. Since I do not want to engage Tsegaye in such a manner, I decided to seek another venue, this one, to address my concern. I am sure many others would share with me the concern I share in this piece. I have one more reason to choose to address Tsegaye in this manner: For many years Tsegaye and I were among the best of friends, and it is my heart’s desire to see Tsegaye continue to positively contribute to the public discussion and debate about a country, Ethiopia, that has shaped our lives in so many ways than we can say. I consider addressing Tsegaye in this manner, in public, as one way of recognizing him because he deserve a recognition for the kind of work he is doing and will do.

Tedla Woldeyohannes is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Tedla has taught Philosophy at Western Michigan University and Saint Louis University.

Ethiopians continue to wonder; how a small time world recognized terrorist group known as Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) pulled the greatest scum in history of Ethiopia.

It is unspoken rule without saying; TPLF is a mercenary group unleashed on the people of Ethiopia. But, the question remains whether its supporters and apologists are part of the scum or on only in it for the money.

Nevertheless, how it is a hardline Marxist-Leninist ethnic liberation pushing TPLF clowns turned 360 degree to become Ethiopia’s # 1 snake oil salesmen of the century in a matter of two decades to put the nation in the auction block to foreigners?

More bewildering g is; how did the same internationally recognized ‘terrorist ’ turned ‘mercenary’ accused of elaborate assassinations, kidnapping and   racketeering ended up to be endorsed by non-other than the leader of the Free World and the first ‘African-American’ President of the United States of America as a ‘democratically elected government of Ethiopia’ and its assassination squad as mercenaries for hire – reducing President Obama’s Africa legacy into the ashes of history with no one noticing it?

Wait, it gets worst. How it is the same TPLF clowns outwitted US authorities to circumvent the laws of the land to receive US taxpayers’ money and charities in the form of foreign aid and import and export what they extorted from the people of Ethiopia in and out of the US and got away at will for these long without being noticed, charged and jailed.

Don’t go yet, there is more. How it is TPLF outsmarted the World Bank, IMF as well as the Donor Group and Foundations to pour in 100s of millions of dollars all these years without knowing TPLF’s scum of laundering it to its own coffer? And, who is responsible for the entire debacle?

As I said before; the devil is all in the details.

But, before I go on to say who could possibly be responsible to the crises brought on our people and nation; it is appropriate to say why it was possible (the cause) to begin with. I firmly believe; the slash-and-burn politics of our contemporary elites opened the door wide for TPLF clowns and associated con artists, criminals, drifters, invaders, pseudo intellectuals, lookalike journalist and preachers to believe the people of Ethiopia are disposable for their personal adventure or interest and the nation is their playground at their disposal. That said, I also believe, there is foreign interest behind the elites behavior at the expenses of the rights and liberties of our people.

This uncomfortable yet row truth continues to be the biggest hindrance for the democratic movement to free the people from a smalltime mercenary-led ethnic Apartheid regime.

Let me explain briefly why what I say is true before I become another causality of the slash-and-burn politics of the usual suspects including the mercenary TPLF clowns.

There is unspoken rule among the Ethiopian elites. That is, they knowingly and unknowingly believe; the freedom and liberty of the people of Ethiopia are under their mercy. Therefore, depending their mood or political and economic ‘adventure’; they reduced the right and liberty of the people into a zero-sum game to their liking and worse yet; a trial and error experiment of their prevailing imagination of what the people’s rights and liberty ought to be.

For instance, in the last four decades since the traditional monarchy rule ended, the ruling political elites implemented Marxism, ethnic liberation and crony capitalism on the people to produce the two most criminal regimes in the modern history of Africa with millions of death, displacement, famine and corruption to show for it and it continues to be so at the present. But yet, not one elite involved in both regimes took any responsibility or made accountable by anyone for crimes of the century, not one.

Now, unlike the Derg regime’s elites; Ethiopians are under ethnic elites that mastered the worst of Marxism, ethnic politics and crony capitalism combined all-in-one never seen in modern experience since the South African Apartheid regime rule ended.

But yet, have you noticed how many self-appointed political elites play slash-and-burn politics –reducing the rights and liberty of the people of Ethiopiaconditional to their ever changing political adventure or interest from ridding the ruling elites?  This reality alone should be sufficient to illustrate the ever changing self-serving conditions the elites forward on the democratic rights of the people of Ethiopia as a principle cause for the people not to own their freedom and liberty all these years. In other words, the people’s freedom and democratic rights are conditional to the self-appointed political elites’ imagination of what democracy means to our people.  If that is not the case; why are the elites not coming together for democratic rule to end Apartheid tyranny besides inserting democracy in their slogan in the last hour?

That said, coming back to the subject matter; the ruling TPLF elites’ slash-and-burn politics and the ever changing political and economic adventure (Marxism, ethnic liberation, revolutionary democracy, crony capitalism and more to come) came out of the same belief—Ethiopians are disposable for the elites’ political adventure or economic interest in general.  What makes TPLF elites different and more dangerous than others is; their willingness to be mercenaries for hire to foreign interest against the interest of the people of Ethiopia never seen in history. Credit (‘legacy’) is due to the leadership of the late TPLF con artist extraordinary Melse Zenawi.

Now, the screaming crying TPLF clowns/apologist must swallow the bitter truth; they are conned to commit heinous crimes of atrocities and corruption instead of blaming anyone or skirting the issue and live with it.

But, If there are two ‘important’ ‘foreigners’ among many around the world that consistently duped the world on behalf of TPLF clowns to get away with ‘murder’ and at the mean time to make a mockery of President Obama’s African legacy, Susan Rise, the former Secretory of African Affairs and UN Ambassador and the present Senior National [in] Security Adviser and honorary Ambassador/lobbyist of TPLF followed by Gale Smith, the present Director of USAID should take the credit.

The dual recruited early on brought TPLF in the world stage and did more damage on the Africa people rights and liberties on behalf of one dictator or another, particularly the late dictator/conman of Tigray/Ethiopia Melse Zenawi than any other foreign official ever did. The Rwanda genocide under Susan Rise watch and how she got away to become the lead expert and adviser to President Obama should tell you there is more than the hype we hear.

Susan and Gale that pride themselves as close friend of the late dictator of Ethiopia since his gorilla days up to his death in mysterious circumstances essentially wrote the African policy of the Clinton as well as the Obama Administration in what appears the copy of Melse’s policy. The con artist that groomed the dual since they were junior State Department officials assigned in Africa owes him for what they know about Africa and the position of power they hold in the US government.

Journalist and historians will do Ethiopians and Africans in general and the American people in particular a great favor if they obtain and dig in on the dual’s official correspondence with the then guerilla leaders under the Freedom of Information Act to find out how he conned and coached the two clueless junior American officials not only to become lobbyist on behalf of TPLF on expenses US taxpayers and against the people of Ethiopia but, to write the US policy on Africa.

Likewise; informing the American people how the dual on behalf of TPLF duped President Obama that despised African dictators at the beginning of his administration to end up embracing them at the end of his term to the point of calling TPLF led Ethiopian rogue regime ‘democratically elected government’. At the meantime, it would be appropriate to find out who TPLF agents the two US government officials rely on at present to utter the hogwash we have been hearing from the Administration officials.

Regardless, the first ‘African American’ President’s legacy on Africa turned out to be nothing more than historical embracement– a hype to dupe Africans in believing things will change for the better under his Administration when in reality it got worst, thanks to Susan Rise and Gale Smith lobbying on behalf of African dictators against the interest of United States as well as Africans.

Ethiopians is the Diaspora should also take responsibility for failing to make the two officials accountable in the court of law or concerned congressional oversight committees as Professor Al Mariam continue to hound them.

When conning Westerners weren’t enough, how TPLF clowns managed to out maneuver the Chinese Communist Party, Indian and Arab government officials and investors with a pyramid scheme without being discovered for far too long is another saga in the arsenal of the mercenary TPLF.

Think about it. The late Melse Zenawi, the mastermind of slash-and-burn politics at home and pyramid scum abroad wasn’t an ordnary con artist. He knew all along every bodies ‘expectation of African small men and the right incentive for greed to blind and entice the greedy to come and throw their repetition for diplomatic cover and their money in to TPLF coffer. After all; he and his comrade in arms were expert selling sand as wheat out of the mouth of starving Ethiopians to dupe Westerners out of their cash. Therefore, for scum artists that use human disaster as opportunity to pickpockets; the greedy are easy prey to entice.

A good example of a born sucker of TPLF scum in recent memory was the arrogant and greedy owner of Karuturi Global that salivated to get free land the size of Belgium not knowing TPLF’s scum. The stupid man deserve what he got for believing  a few pages contract signed by TPLF cadre posed as government official  is good enough to grab land a size of a country.  But, again many Ethiopians in diaspora are tripping over each other to grab a little plot of land they don’t even know who it belongs just because an illiterate TPLF cadre in Diaspora told them to do so. Many end up crying behind closed doors scammed of their money as TPLF clowns planned it.  Greed not only blind people not to see what is coming; they put more money in hope of getting what they know was a scam.

Quite frankly, if people closely followed what TPLF scum artist Melse professed for different audience at different times  like ‘over my dead body—land will be privatize’ while he was dispensing it for his cronies like candy they wouldn’t be crying foul. What he actually saying was; Ethiopians have no dollars but land to give TPLF but, no one listened.  Only his loyal cronies and foreign nationals with dollars will get land practically for free to keep them silent and milk them for more later on.  That is not all, they will even get subsidized loan in birr to entice them to come in. When you think about it; why would he gives his self-proclaimed enemies (Ethiopians) their own land when he can sell/lease it for a dollar to fatten his coffer? If you look at who was first in line to grab prime urban and rural land (good luck finding the complete list) you would understand what TPLF scum/policy is all about.

Moreover, the most preferred foreign land grabbers beside TPLF’s cronies are Arabs, Indians and Chinese in that order.  They weren’t picked for being good stewards of the land nor because they are legitimate investors but for their contribution to enhance TPLF occupation and robbery without raising questions or making noises.

Obviously, the Arabs have special place in TPLF’s heart. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say Arab governments invented TPLF and without them there wouldn’t be TPLF period. In fact, TPLF con artist Melse Zenawi was heard saying he is Arab before he was born-again Ethiopian.-When he found out there is easy money to be made being Ethiopian the entire TPLF con artists became more Ethiopian than the Ethiopians they despised. And, the ring leader ended up buried; not in Tigray he supposedly liberated from his ‘Ethiopian enemy’ but in the heart of the ‘enemy’ nation —reducing the bogus ‘Tigray liberation’ in to the ashes of history with the ‘golden people’ he profess to belong disposable at will.

The irony is; even his TPLF cronies couldn’t see being conned in daylight– scrambling to build a Foundation for the conman; not in Adwa where he declare to belong but, Addis Ababa. After all, they are too busy selling and stealing like urban drag kingpin to see anything else.

Looking at the top real-estate con artist/Ambassadors assigned in each country to sell Ethiopian’s land will tell you the other side of the story. The successive handpicked TPLF agents/ Ambassadors in the petro rich Arab countries’ embassies tell you why they were assigned there. But, noting come close to the unofficial TPLF Ambassador and biggest land- grabber/broker/investor than the Saudi nationalSheikh Mohammed Al-Amoudi. A close confidant of TPLF conmen Melse Zenawi and Birket Simon (an Eritrean national masquerading as Amhara official) he became the de facto TPLF regime official.

Al-Amoudi became a nuisance among Ethiopians since he started playing his Ethiopian nationality to do TPLF’s political bidding and his Saudi nationality to do TPLF’s economic bidding and showed his true color. The irony is; why would a man of enormous wealth and business interest around the world reduce himself to associate with the most dangerous mercenary masquerading as the government of Ethiopia raises more questions than answers.

When that wasn’t enough; Al-Amoudi went out of his way to disfranchise and harass Ethiopians in the diaspora   and to lobby US government officials on behalf of TPLF– spending millions of dollars. His 20 million dollar contribution for the Clinton Foundation on behalf of the ‘government of Ethiopia’ is the tip of the iceberg of how far he would go to defend TPLF clowns his questionable investment depends on. There got to be more than financial gain that motivate him to put everything he got online on  a small time corrupt regime led by TPLF. Ethiopians can only guess why he isn’t coming out to explain his reason to cover up for TPLF crimes against the people of Ethiopia.

His denial;  his  contribution on his official website stating “The Sheikh made a donation of only $6m to the Clinton Foundation but donated separately $16m to AIDS awareness in Africa wholly unconnected to the Clinton Foundation” by skirting the issue sounds fear of being implicated by US laws and contradicts his public statement of  unwavering political and financial support for TPLF regime and how far he goes to undermine the oppositions in Diaspora. His recent unsuccessful attempt to break up the Ethiopian Football Federation in North America by spending millions of dollars bribing players and officials is a testimony to his commitment to sustain the corrupt TPLF regime.

Here again, the elites conspiracy to believe the people of Ethiopia are disposable to their will is at work.  If Al-Amoudi with an enormous wealth and influence that could afford to take a stand for the people’s freedom and right is not a testimony to that facts who could be? In fact, he is a prime example of what is wrong with contemporary elites that reduced our people as their indenture servants.

Moreover, the legality of an investor of a Saudi national to influence Western governments on behalf of a third party corrupt foreign regime in the name of ‘Aid awareness’ is a million dollar question that requires investigation by legal experts and mainstream Media alike.

In Asia, one of the TPLF mob boss/real-estate agent/Ambassador assigned to deal with the Communist Party of China that trained him to be a Marxist assassin then and “Developmental State’ crony capitalist at present is the Dishonorable TPLF conman Seyom Mesfin. The main reason the Former Foreign Minister sent to China as Ambassador was to use the Chinese Communist party to expand TPLF political as well as economic hegemony on Ethiopia behind closed doors and to counter Western governments’ pressure for reform. In that capacity; he managed to make TPLF owned EFFORT companies the number one exporters of stolen commodities’ destination in Asia countries he oversee from his base in China and China the number one contractor of infrastructure projects. It appears; the officials of China have no clue how TPLF duped them; partly because no one inform them they are dealing with TPLF con artistes posed as Ethiopian government officials.

But, the real-estate agent/Ambassador Gent Zewde in India stand out as the only none TPLF con women that appears to work for commission to sell her country’s land to Indians for a bargain. Her unconventional tactics never heard of in history speaks for itself.

In an interview she conducted with Indian ITMI TV (video deleted for unknown reason) , she confessed the true nature of TPLF. She said referring to listening Indian audience; ‘

“You don’t have to buy the land in Ethiopia because the government gives you the land for an almost negligible lease price for 25 to 50 years, which is then, of course, renewable. There are other government incentives as well.”

She was also allegedly responsible for multiple advertisements on local newspapers for Indians to come and grab cheap land in Ethiopia. Indians were rushing to grab in the greatest land- rash since the Westward Expansion of European Americans from East Coast to West Coast of US to grab land in the late 19^th century. Unfortunately, at the meantime; TPLF was chasing Ethiopians out of their land at the other end in a cover of Villagazation Program–cashing in more money from the World Bank and the Donor Group while agents like Gent were selling the land to Indians.

(See also Haliamriam Desalegn mumbled on an interview with Vickram Bahl of ITMI TV regarding land give away claiming lands given are empty land with no settlement.

One Indian farmer that took the offer early on was heard saying “my land in Ethiopia is bigger than my village in India” while Ethiopians were pushed out of their land into exile by TPLF cadres.

The February 2013 Guardian article; ‘India-investors-forcing-Ethiopians-off-land’ partially showed Gent Zewde’s accomplishments during her tenor.  Again, the irony is no one including the Indian government that poured in 100s of millions of dollars into TPLF coffer in the name of building sugar factory makes her or TPLF conmen accountable.

Tell me; what else can you call TPLF scavengers but mercenaries for hire?

The crime of TPLF clowns & associates are many to list here. In fact, as a policy; TPLF elaborately sealed off any information that exposes its and associates crimes from coming out of the country.  Therefore, not a fraction of the crimes committed against the people of Ethiopia are known to the public and the world at large made possible by fake propaganda Medias in the English language masquerading as Free Press. If you look at the propaganda machines posed as private press at home you understand mercenaries are on the loss in your beloved Ethiopia.

By now; there is absolutely no doubt in every Ethiopian mind the ‘Adwa’ gorillas & associates allover Ethiopia and in diaspora proven to be the enemies of Ethiopians. Therefore, the ball is in Ethiopians’ court to rid the enemies within. The only things holding back Ethiopians at the moment are those that ask what ‘if-and-but’ for one reason or another in denial to accept the reality – TPLF clowns institutionalized criminality against their own people in the name of ethnic Fedralsim. Therefore, the democratic struggle is not about ideology but criminality.

There’s a saying “Do it right or don’t do it at all”. Ethiopians must and will be free from tyranny once and for all to be ruled under democratic regime of their choice, it is a matter of time. The question is what do the political elites want? If opportunist elites keep asking what if-and-but, or continue to play slash-and-burn politics; they aren’t any better than the conning TPLF clowns in insulting the intelligence Ethiopians.  Ethiopians should and must make them accountable for extending the rule of TPLF.

The fate of Ethiopians can only be drawn by the people themselves no one else. No more Ethiopians can be duped by opportunist elites that kept the rogue regime alive and extending the misery of the people for far too long.

They say ‘talk is cheap’. Let every elite swallow the bitter truth and submit for the will of the people to be free and governed under democratic rule. Anything else is opportunism at its worst.

The conning and conniving TPLF clowns must and will surrender for the people will by choice or by force. The question is; can the rest of the elites love their people more than themselves to surrender in kind for the people will to shorten the live of TPLF Apartheid rule? If-and-but is the answer or crying foul is sufficient; there must be accountability by the people that are paying the ultimate price of TPLF tyranny. A little humility to tell the truth and accept personal responsibility to do the right thing goes a long way to end the nuisance of tyranny for good and to tell the world; Ethiopians means business this time around.

Warning for TPLF clowns: Committing crimes against the people of Ethiopia from your hiding is not going to help you. Only confessing your crimes in public may help. Your fate is on your hand to do right by surrendering for the will of the people than TPLF. But, expecting to con your way out of your predicament as usual or looking for someone as scapegoat will not help you avoid the unavoidable.  The sooner you accept you are nothing more than a henchman for TPLF Apartheid regime the sooner you realize you are ‘dead fish’ in the ocean.

End of the story

This article is dedicated to our people jailed, displaced and exiled by TPLF land-grab policy. Until the struggle for democracy achieves its goal to rid the regime do not give up hope.

Despite allegations that it was stolen from the Ethiopian Imperial Palace more than 30 years ago, a sequestration order on the timepiece may be lifted in the next weeks.

በባሌ ክፍለ ሀገር ጎባ እንደተወለዱና የልጅነት ጊዜያቸውንም በዛው እንዳሳለፉ የሚናገሩት መምህር (መላከ መንክራት) ግርማ ወንድሙ ለበርካታ አመታት ክፉ መናፍስትን ከሰዎች ልጆች በማስወጣት የሚታወቁ የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ እምነት የሐይማኖት አባት ነቸው፡፡ መምህሩ በዚህ አገልግሎታቸው በብዙ ሚሊየን የሚቆጠሩ ሰዎች ከክፉ መናፍስት እስራት እዳላቀቁ ይነገርላቸዋል፡፡ የዚሁ አገልግሎት ተጠቃሚ የሆኑትም በርካታ ሰዎች ስለዚሁ ይመሰክራሉ፡፡ የክፉ መናፍስትን ከማስወጣቱ በተጨማሪ መምህሩ በኢትዮጵያ ለዘመናት የተዘነጉና ሕዝብን ለመናፍስት ወረራ የዳረጉ የሚሏቸውን የተለያዩ መረጃዎችን  ፈውስ በሚሰጡባቸው በጉባዔያትና አሜሪካን አገር በሚገኝ ራዲዮ አቢሲኒያ በሚባል ሬድዮ ለሕዝብ ያስተምራሉ፡፡ በዚህም አገልግሎታቸው ብዙዎች ልዩ ዕውቀት እንዳገኙና ራሳቸውንም እንደቀየሩ ይናገራሉ፡፡

እኔ እንደ አስተዋልኩት እኚህ ሰው ከብዙ የዘመኑ የቤተክርስቲያኗ አገልጋዮች የሚለይዋቸው ፍልስፍናዎች አሉ፣ ተግባሮች አሉ፡፡ ምንዓልባትም በመናፍስት ላይ ያላቸው ኃይል ከዚህ ጋር የተያያዘ ሊሆን እንደሚችል አስባለሁ፡፡ በመድረክም ከላይ በጠቀስኩትም ሬዲዮ መምህሩ ሲያስተምሩ ከተለመደው የሀይማኖት ስብከት ከሚባለው ለየት ያለ ነው፡፡ ትምህርታቸው የመጽሐፍ ጥቅስ በማብዛት ሳይሆን ከመጽሐፉ ክፍል አንድ ወይም ጥቂት ዓረፍተ ነገር በመውሰድ እሱን ከነባራዊው የሰዎች አኗኗር ጋር በመተንትን ነው፡፡ በእርግጥም ብዙ ጊዜ አንብበንው ያለፍነው የመጽሐፍ ቅዱስ ክፍል እሳቸው ሲተነትኑት ራሳችንን እስከምንታዘብ ድረስ እንዳልገባን ይሰማናል፡፡ መምህሩ ሲያስተምሩ በመጻሐፍ ያለውን ዛሬም እየሆነ እደሆነ በመስረገጥ ነው በማለት እንጂ እንደሌሎች ይላል በሚል አይደለም፡፡ የሚናገሩትም እንደ ፈላስፋ እንጂ እንደ ሰባኪም አይደለም፡፡ በበርካታ ትምህርቶቻቸውም አብዝተው ስለ ሕዝብና አገር በቁጭት ይናገራሉ፡፡

መምህሩ ባሳለፏቸው የአገልግሎት ዘመናት አግልግሎት የሚሰጡት በነጻ ነው፡፡ በነጻ ያገኛችሁትን በነጻ ስጡ የሚለው ቃል በተግባር የገባቸው ይመስላል፡፡ ለበርካታ ዓመታትም አገልግሎታቸውን ለመፈጸም ሲሉ በኑሮ ብዙ ተፈትነዋል፡፡ ብዙ ሕዝብ እያገለገሉም ይሄው የኑሮ ችግራቸው የከፋ ነበር፡፡ በተገኙበት ጉበኤ ሁሉ በብዙ ሺዎች የሚቆጠር ገንዘብ ለሚያገለገሉበት ደብር እየስገቡ እሳቸው  በማጠት የተቸገሩባቸውን ብዙ አመታት መምህሩ ይዘክራሉ፡፡  ከብዙ ዘመን በኋላ ነበር ታዲያ  ከሚሰጡት አገልግሎት አንጻር ኑሯቸውን ያስተዋሉ አንዳንድ ግለሰቦች በኑሮ እንዳይፈተኑ ያገዟቸው፡፡ ቤት የገዙላቸው ባልና ሚስት በመምህሩ እንደ ልዩ የእግዚአብሔር መልክተኞች ይታያሉ፡፡ ለዘመናት በቤት ጉዳይ ተፈትነዋልና፡፡ የሚሰጡትንም የአጋንንት ማስወጣቱን ተግባር ከሌላ አንጻር እየተመለከቱባቸው ቤት አከራዮቻቸውም ብዙ ፈትነዋቸዋል፡፡ ወደ መጨረሻ እንደውም ቤት የሚያከራያቸው ራሱ እንዳጡ መምህሩ ይናገራሉ፡፡ እንግዲህ እሳቸው ጋር ያለ ኃይል እንዲህ ባለ ፈተና ካልሆነ አፀና ይሆን; በዚህ ሁሉ ግን መምህሩ እጅ ሳይሰጡ፣ ገነዘብም፣ ዝናም፣ ሰውም ሳይጥላቸው አሁን ያሉበት ደረሱ፡፡  አሁን ፈተናው ቢኖርም እንደ ድሮው አይደለም፡፡ ብዙ ሕዝብም የፈተናቸውም ተጋሪ ሆኗል፡፡

ብዙ ሕዝብ በትክክል እየተረዳቸው ሲመጣ ፈተናው በዛው ልክ መዋቅራዊ ሆኖ ዛሬ ቤት፣ ልብስ፣ ምግብ ሳይሆን የሚያገለገልሏት ቤተክርስቲያን ኃላፊዎች ዋና ፈተና ሆነውባቸዋል፡፡ ብዙ ያሴሩባቸዋል፡፡ ሆኖም አሁን እየገጠማቸው ያለው ፈተና በሕዝብ ዘንድ ብዙ የታወቁበት ዘመን በመሆኑ ፈታኞቹ መምህሩን በሚከሱበት ሁሉ ትዝብት ውስጥ እየገቡ ይመስላል፡፡ ብዙዎችም እውን በኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ቤተክርስቲያን ለዘመናት ዋና ሆነው ያሉት እነማን ናቸው የሚል ጥያቄን እያነሱ ነው፡፡ በቅርቡ መምህሩ በተለያየ የሐሰት ክሶች ለእስር ተዳርገው እንደነበር ይታወቃል፡፡ ክሶቹ መጀመሪያ የግለሰብ እንዲመስሉ ቢደረግም እየቆየ ከቤተክርስቲያኒቱ ዋና ከተበሉት እንደሆነ ተረዳን፡፡ የፖለቲካ አንድምታም እንዳለውም በማሰብ፡፡ ዛሬ በቤተክርስቲያኒቱ የተለያየ ቦታ ብዙ ችግሮች አሉ፡፡ ዋናው ችግር ከገንዘብ ጋር የተያየዘ ነው፡፡ ከሳቸው ጋር ያለው ችግር ግን ትንሽ ረቀቅ ያለ ይመስላል፡፡ በሥጋ በማይገለጥ የመንፈሳዊ ጦርነት ይመስላል፡፡ ለብዙዎች የመምህሩ አጋንንትን ከሰው ልጆች ማውጣት ሠላም እየሰጣቸው ያለ አይመስልም፡፡ የቤተክርስቲያኗን መንፈሳዊ አገልግሎት ዕውቀት ያላቸውና በመንፈሳዊ ሕወታቸውም ጠንካራ የሚባሉት የሲኖዶስ አባላት ጳጳሳት ሳይቀር መምህሩ ትክክለኛ እንደሆኑ በብዙ መድረኮች ሲናገሩ እንሰማለን፡፡ ሌሎች ግን ሥራቸውን ከጥንቆላ ጋር አገናኝተው ሊያወግዙ ይፈልጋሉ፡፡ ይህ ግን በሕዝብ ዘንድ ሌላ ጥያቄን ፈጥሮ ይገኛል፡፡ በቤተክርስቲያኗ ተንሰራፍቶ ያለው የጥንቆላ ሥራ የበለጠ ስለሚታመንበት በእግዚአብሔር ኃይል ለሚደረግ አገልግሎት ዋጋ መስጠትን እንደተረሳ ብዙዎች ተረድተዋል፡፡ መምህሩን ዛሬ ፈታኝ የሆኑባቸውም ራሳቸው በቤተክርስቲያኗ ውስጥ ዋና ሆነው በጥንቆላ ሥራ የሚታወቁ ናቸው የሚል ትዝብትን አምጥቷል፡፡ በእርግጥም ይህ አስተሳሰብ በሕዝብ ዘንድ ቢኖር አይገርምም፡፡

መምህሩ ተግባራቸው በግልጽ በኃያሉ በእግዚአብሔርና በቅዱሳኑ ሥም አጋንንትን ሲያሶጡ የሚያሳይ ነው፡፡ ለገንዘብ ቦታ የላቸውም፡፡ ዘር ጎሳ ሐይማኖት ጭምር ሳይለዩ በተሰጣቸው ጸጋ ሁሉንም ያገለግላሉ፡፡  በዚህም በትምህርታቸውም ሆነ በፈውስ አገልግሎታቸው ተጠቃሚ እየሆነ ያለው የኦርቶዶክስ እምነት ተከታይ ብቻም ሳይሆን ሁሉም ነው፡፡  ለአገርና ሕዝብ ያላቸው ቁጭት እጅግ ታላቅ ነው፡፡  በዘር የተከፋፈለች በመሆኗ ያዝነሉ፡፡ በአደባባይም ይሄንኑ በቁጭት ይናገራሉ፡፡  በአንድ ወቅት በጊምቢ ምዕራብ ወለጋ በአንድ ደብር የተናገሩት በብዞዎች ይታወሳል ከጎጃም የመጣ በሬና ከወለጋ የመጣ በሬ አብረው አንድ ላይ ሳር ይግጣሉ እኛ ግን ዘር እየቆጠርን እንናከሳለን ብለው ነበር፡፡ በብዙ መድረክም እንዲህ ያለውን ነገር ይናገራሉ፡፡ የኤርትራውያን ከኢትዮጵያ ተገንጥሎ ድሮ በአውቶብስ እንደልብ የሚገናኙ ሕዝቦች ዛሬ ያለፍላጎታቸው ታግደው በሌላ አገራት ሲገናኙ በማየታቸው እጅግ ያዝናሉ፡፡ ብዙም ጊዜ ይናገሩታል፡፡ እንዲህ ያለው በዘር መከፋፈል አስከፊነቱን ለአገልግሎት በተንቀሳቀሱባቸው የውጭ አገራት ትልቅ ትኩረት ሰጥተው ተናግረውታል፡፡ ይሄ ግን አሁን በሥልጣን ላይ ላለው መንግስትና በዘርና በተለያየ ጥቅም ለተበከሉ የቤተክርስቲያኒቱ ባለስልጣኖች እንደ ክፉ ሳይታይባቸው አልቀረም፡፡ በቅርብ የታሰሩበት መሠረታዊ ምክነያቱም የሕዝብ እንድነትን መስበካቸው ይመስላል፡፡ ከእስር ከተፈቱም በኋላ በሲኖዶስ አባል በሆኑ ጳጳስ በምድብ አገልግሎት እንዲሰጡ ደብዳቤ ቢጻፍላቸውም ከዋናው ፓትሪያርክ በወጣ ሌላ ደብዳቤ ታግደዋል፡፡  ከዚህም በፊት ብዙ ደብዳቤ ተጽፎላቸዋል ተጽፎባቸዋልም፡፡

በአሁኑ ወቅት  መምህሩ በየትኛውም የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ቤተክርስቲያን እንዳያገለግሉ ታግደው ቀድሞ ይስጡት የነበሩትን አገልግሎት አቋርጠዋል፡፡ ሆኖም ትምህርታቸው አቢሲኒያ በሚባለው ሬደዮ ቀጥሏል፡፡ እሳቸውም ትምህርታቸውን የሚከታተሉ ወገኖችን ይዘው የበለጠ ወደሚሆን ልዩ አገልግሎት እየገቡ ያለ ይመስላል፡፡ ከዚህ በፊት ለየደብሩ ብዙ ገንዘብ በማስገባት የሚተወቁት እኝህ መምህር አሁን የተጎዱ ወገኖቼን በሚል ወደበጎ አድራጎት ድርጅቶች ፊታቸውን አዙረዋል፡፡ በቅርብ የአንድ የድኩማንና አንድ ሌላ ወላጅ የሌላቸው ሕጻናት የሚማሩበትን ተቋማት መረዳታቸውን እናስታውሳለን፡፡ ሰሞኑን ደግሞ በድርቅ ለተጎዱ ወገኖች ዕርዳታ የሚሆን ከሁለት ሚሊየን ብር በላይ በ15 ቀን ውስጥ አሰባሰበው ለኢትዮጵያ ቀይመስቀል ማህበር አበርክተዋል፡፡  የመምህሩ በእንደዚህ ያለ አጭር ጊዜ ይሄን የሚያህል ገንዘብ ማሰበሰብ መቻል ለብዙዎች ሊገርም ይችላል ሆኖም መምህሩ ለየደብራቱ በተገኙበት አጭር ሰዓታት የሚያስገቡትን ላየ ብዙም አይገርምም፡፡  በአንድ ደብር ከግባሽ ሚሊየን ብር በላይ የአስገቡበትን አንድ ከ2-3ሰዓት የሆነ ጉባዔያቸውን ብዙዎች በአይናቸው አይተዋል፡፡ መምህሩ እንደተናገሩትም አገር ውስጥ ያለው ጉባዔያቸው ቀጥሎ ቢሆን አሁን ለቀይመስቀል ያበረከቱት ከአምስት ሚሊየን በላይ ይሆን ነበር፡፡

ቀጣዩ የመምህሩ ጉዞ ከዚህ በላይ ቢሆን ተመኘሁ፡፡ ከላይ እንደጠቆምኳችሁ፡፡ መምህሩ ለአገርና ሕዝብ ትልቅ ቁጭት አላቸው፡፡ የሕዝብ ኑሮ ከአገር መሰደድ ብዙ ይሰመቸዋል፡፡ በእሳቸው ዘንድ ኢትዮጵያዊነት (ለእሳቸው የኤርትራን ሕዝብ ጨምሮ ነው) ትልቅ ሥፍራ አለው፡፡ በዛው ልክ ትምህርታቸውን በሚከታተሉትም ዘንድ እንደዛው ነው ኤርትራውያኑን ጨምሮ ሁሉም ኢትዮጵያዊ ዘር (አሮሞ፣ አማራ ትግሬ… ምናምን)፣ ሐይማኖት (ኦርቶዶክስ፣ እስላም፣ ፕሮቴስታንት) ሳይል ሁሉም ይወዳቸዋል፡፡ ቀጥሎ የመምህሩ ጉዞ በዘር የተከፋፈለውን ሕዝብ አንድ የሚያደርግና ዜጎች በሰላም፣ በሠላም፣ በብልፅግና ፍትሕ የሰፈነባት አገር ለመገንባት ወደሚያስችል ተግባር ቢሆን ተመኘሁ፡፡ መምህሩ ከጠለቀ የሀይማኖትና የሰውልጅ ደህንነት ፍልስፍናቸው አንጻር ተቃራኒ ቡድኖችን በማቀራረብ፣ ሕዝብንም ለሠላምና አገርን በአንድነት ለመገንባት የማነሳሳት አቅሙ እንዳላቸው አሰብኩ፡፡ መምህሩ የሚከተሉት እንደተረት የምንሰማቸውን በመጽሐፍ ቅዱስ ያነበብናቸውን ፈላስፋዎች እንደነ ቅዱስ ጳውሎስ ያለውን ፍልስፍና ነው፡፡ በዚያ ዘመን ያለች ጥበብ አሁንም እንዳለች በቃልም በተግባርም እያሳዩን ነው፡፡  ወገኔ ሕዝቤ የሚሉትን ዛሬ ተከታዮቻቸውን በማስተባበር ለዕለት ችግሩ የሚሆን ዕርዳታ እያበረከቱ ያሉትን ተግባር በዘላቂነት ኑሮው የተሻለ እንዲሆን አሁን የሚከታተሏቸውን ሌሎችንም ወገኖች በመያዝ ወደ አንድነትና አገር ልማት ለማመጣት ተጽኖ መፍጠር ከሚችሉ ሰው አንዱ ሆነው ይታዮኛል፡፡ እሳቸውም በዚህ ሂደት ተሳታፊ ቢሆኑ ደስተኛ እንደሚሆኑ ይሰማኛል፡፡ ከሁሉ በላይ ዘለቀታዊ የሆነ ሠላም፣ ፍትሕ፣ እንድነትና ልማት ኢትዮጵያ ያስፈልጋታል፡፡ ዜጎች በብዙ መልኩ አእምሮ በሚያም ሁኔታ እተጎዱ ነው!

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