Ethiopia: The Finfinne Intercept Station letter to Under-Secretary of State for Africa James Duddridge MP (21.02.2021)

Opinion: Everyone speaking up against Abiy is labelled ‘TPLF’ associates

If you speak about Michael Plout, Alex De Wall, William Davidson, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch or Kjetil Tronsvoll. All of them are now in the same camp. The same is the International Media Houses, who all differs in reporting, than the ‘accepted’ and ‘fact checked’ based reporting of the state media in Addis Ababa. Because, everyone is supposed to eat of the hands of the authorities and of the state. Not be critical, ask questions or even check other sources. If you do… then you are an associate or a cadre of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).

Surely, as I have seen on social media. Some is calling my style of blogging, the fake bloggers. That’s because we straight shoot and has no cause to speak our minds. I am not involved in one party or another. I just bring the views to the table and serve them here. I’m not affiliated with any political party or movement. I speak my peace and I move-on. That is maybe one minute or years ago. I was hostile towards the TPLF for its ill activity, but now in these days questions the Prosperity Party (PP). That’s because no matter who does the wrong. I will call them out. If you are violating human rights. Then I will say so. If you are a War-Lord. I will state it. No matter what label you got on your political party.

The current method of undermining the media. Having media blackout. Ensuring avenues for humanitarian convoys into Tigray. While silencing reporters isn’t doing Ethiopia any good. Yes, it stops reporting, but also ensures the state to drop “propaganda” in its favour. They try to sway public opinion about the warfare in Tigray, but the stories from there will leak out. The acts of the state is kept in the dark, but refugees and witnesses are telling their tales. These is the stories that Federal Government wants to “hush” down.

That Prime Minister Abiy wants to look good isn’t anything new. He wants to be crowned and reflect the aspirations, which he came into office with. Abiy don’t want to be seen as a War-Lord. Though his actions speaks of it. Either its in Tigray, Oromia or elsewhere. There is violence and its persistence with state sponsored ammunition. There is no end of it and it doesn’t get better either. It is those two regions as mentioned, but also in Ogaden and Afar. There are so many unresolved conflicts and he seems to got no real aspiration to stop it. Unless, he gets the credit and can bash in glory. If any of the mentioned writers wrote this. They would be deemed ‘TPLF’ cadres to suggest such a thing.

However, they are doing this to undermine and to de-platform the ones reporting ‘negatively’ about the government. Because, the supporters and the ones cheering Abiy on. Cannot sustain the idea of separating the state and the ones running it. They have to blindly praise the government, even when it does atrocities and violates human rights. These folks have gotten so “hoodwinked” that they have to worship the Prosperity Party and their beliefs, in such a manner, that they are saying anyone who oppose – is TPLF. That is just the way things are.

It doesn’t matter, if it is true or not. They call ‘Westerners’ who oppose the warfare and the brutal conflict ‘TPLF’ on the spot. It doesn’t matter if they are just questioning the usage of force, the reporting and possibly the lies of the Federal Government. However, nobody is supposed to call them out. We are just supposed to eat out of their hands. We are just supposed to be “yes men” and be like a patronage of the Prime Minister. Because, nobody has a better vision or a mission as that man. That is just the way it is.

Nevertheless, the Prime Minister and his enterprise is only showing the deficiencies of his reign. He is opening a can of worms and it hurts him. This is why, instead of being sincere in the address of the report. It is just baselessly claiming these men is affiliated with the now deemed ‘terrorists’ and ‘outlawed’ organization, which a hot minute ago was part of government.

Well, we are not supposed to mentioned the unconstitutional sixth year of the House of Federation. The manner, which the Prime Minister and such postponed the elections to this year. The way he has arrested, killed and silenced the Oromo leadership. The way the state is also going after the leaders and candidates of Ogaden. There is no mercy ahead of the elections. However, we are just supposed to look by, as another forced leadership is ‘selected’ in the Republic. Because, that is the way ‘Ethiopia Prevails’. If that is the way it prevails, I don’t want to know how it will prosper. Since, this is just a pointless enterprise to conquer and destroy the ones who dares to challenge Abiy. By saying that… I know some would call me ‘TPLF’ too. Even though, I have criticised them countless in the past and can easily do again. However, if people want to go after them. Use legal means and use courts. Use measures and get the crimes of the past exposed. Not create new crimes and violations to get them. Then there is no difference between “you” and “them”.

No matter what side of the gun you are, there will be blood and someone will be hurt. The bullet doesn’t see, if you are “good” or “bad”. The bullet just leaves the barrel and hit someone. That is the job of the bullet. The bullets doesn’t solve anything, but only creates new victims and new cases to resolve. New damage and new suffering. The state has only created new wounds and will pay a price in the long-run. The short-con is maybe hurting the TPLF and the Regional Government of Tigray. However, the long-con will be about how they address and is able to revitalize the hurt and patch it. Also, how they can build trust in communities it came in with soldiers, mechanical warfare and killed their loved ones. Because, that is what they did for selfish reasons. Instead of solving it with words, negotiations and with mercy. No, they came with ruthless action and with vengeance.

That is why its dangerous to address anyone opposing a government as “affiliate” with the “enemy”, because if you do that. Then the next time you disagree with the government. You will be one of them too. Nobody will accept or agree with everything a government does, because if you do. Then your blind and doesn’t see what it does. You are brainwashed and cannot question the acts and keep them in check. There will be no accountability and transparency. Since everything they do is fine and dandy. That is just reckless and stupid.

It is healthy to ask and the government is not credible when it’s doing this and supporting it. The Abiy government and its supporters aren’t making any favours. Especially, when they have made media-blackout in Tigray, its issues with media before that and how it has handled critics in general. If it was open and let people criticised it. Things would have been better, but its only backfiring for an outsider looking in. It is really insincere.

Just writing a piece like this. The state and its supporters would label me ‘TPLF’ without tracing my history and my pieces in the past. I been even dismissed for addressing the TPLF, but now people are getting aimed at for reporting ‘negative’ towards PP and Abiy. That is just dumb. Peace.

Burma: Myanmar – The United Nations Country Team Statement (21.02.2021)

Tanzania: Magufuli is livin’ on a prayer Part II

Have you seen my aides wearing bracelets? Because I know who they slept with today at home, but the main thing is to put God first, God willing even without Corona you will go, even with Malaria you will go, this is the time to really pray to God” – President Joseph Magufuli (21.02.2021)

There are some men who let their pride take control of their actions. One man like that is the Tanzanian President Joseph Magufuli. Who rather uses God and Faith, than trusting in science and conventional wisdom in concern to the COVID-19 or Corona Pandemic that has hit his Republic. The last COVID-19 Numbers came out 29th April 2020. So, now a year later. There been high ranking officials dying of it and also others.

Even all of that he still has the guts to say this:

Do not despise the smoke, there is a medicine called BUPIJI people have recovered to the hospitals have used the drug, there is COVIDOL there are all kinds of drugs used by Tanzanians, I ask my Christian brothers and Tanzanians not to be afraid of Corona we will pass” (Magufuli, 21.02.2021).

His denial and act of mischief. Promoting treatments that hasn’t been tested and been checked if it actually work. Because, something in his mind isn’t adding up.

When statement’s like these are leaking out of Tanzania: “The Tanganyika Law Society (TLS) has called on President John Maguguli to declare the presence of Covid-19 in the country – and announced mandatory preventive measures after the Society had lost 25 lawyers. Also, the Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) has issued new directives aimed at reducing the number of worshippers attending masses in churches countrywide while making social distancing mandatory” (Javira Ssebwami – ‘Tanzania Episcopal Conference, law society take on Magufuli after 25 prominent lawyers succumb to virus’ 20.02.2021).

With the knowledge of TLS and TEC, you would think a President would reconsider his stance and listen to wisdom. No, he closes his ears and wants to pray to the holy father. God will intervene and make it all vanish. Not like God has given humans a brains and wants us to use it. No, it is just hanging fruits to have an option to put on hats on top of our heads. We are not supposed to use it and use our two ears. Because, common sense isn’t always common.

Now, that the President have yet again said he wants to have Three Days of National Prayers. The same President did that in 2020 as well.

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has declared a three-day national prayers period to help combat the novel coronavirus as the reported cases in the country rose to 94. “Fellow Tanzanians, due to the pandemic, I urge to use these three days, from April 17 to April 19, to pray for God’s protection and healing,” the President tweeted on Thursday evening” (Beatrice Materu – ‘Tanzania: COVID-19 – Magufuli Declares Three Days of National Prayers, The East African, 17.04.2020).

So, he has done this before without any luck. He repeats himself and denies it. He accepts that people are dying. Because we are all going to die anyway. That is how he values the lives of his citizens. They are perishable and if they died. They didn’t pray enough or had faith enough.

Maybe his in the M.O of Jurassic Park: “Dr. Ian Malcolm : When you gotta go, you gotta go” (Jurassic Park, 1993). So, it seems that Magufuli is living in the same head-space. The same sort of actions. As he don’t want to act or do anything real in consideration to the COVID-19. No, he rather let people die, than actually act rationally. It must be his pride and arrogance. As he see people are dying. People are getting sick and there are evidence of high ranking officials who has died of this. He even let his son who got it drink a ginger mix to save himself. A man who doesn’t trust the testing-kits, vaccines or anything else, unless its produced locally by his fellow peers. That is the sort genius Magufuli is.

A man who claimed the Nation was COVID-19 free and stopped all counting. While people have gotten “mysterious diseases” and died. That doesn’t happen on the blimp, but is a cause and effect. The virus is still around and the Republic still has cases. Even if the President claimed it was gone. The Prayers haven’t worked and his resilience towards any scientific approach is hurting the Republic. That is the decision the President has made.

He wants to live on Bon Jovi’s “livin’ on a prayer” instead of living in the real world. Where the sickness is deadly and people are dying. Instead of being a reasonable Head of State and try to mitigate. He rather wants people to fence it on their own. See if they can survive and he can survive carefree in Chato in Geita Region.

Just to state the fact of the precautions affairs. The ACT-Wazalendo leader and Zanzibar’s First Vice-President Seif Sharif Hamad died this week after testing positive for COVID-19. So, the President knows perfectly well the dangers of this virus. However, he lacks courage and stamina to combat it.

His a arrogant and a coward… who cannot be a real leader. When he knowingly let his people die. He knows better, but instead he prays and hope God solves it. When God has given men the tools and the wisdom to combat things.

Just as the Bible says itself on this matter:

On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Matthew 9:12-13, New International Version) .

Even Jesus Christ says the sick needs the doctor. Therefore, the President should prescribe the medicine and treatment, the doctors are saying is needed in this instance. Instead of letting people die. It is disgraceful, that the President isn’t letting the words of wisdom of doctors and medical professional get a word in.. He rather bulldoze them with his hack-work and call it a day. Because, that is how it looks from the outside.

A man who rather say a prayer, than do a honest days work. Peace.

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