Opinion: The up-coming election will not give the legitimacy Abiy seeks …

In Ethiopia, aside from power through elections, there will not be a government created on the basis of negotiations or transitions. Leadership can only be attained through elections” – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali (29.04.2021).

If this was in 2018 and early after he was selected as the new Prince of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and appointed as the Head of State. He would have much more given for him and his reign. The Prime Minister was walking on water in the beginning and had all hope ahead of him.

Still, the greed for power and control is endless with this man. Now he seeks to be anointed king and not be little prince. He wants to run and stop walking. Nevertheless, the man has squashed all possible options for a peaceful transition and a credible election.

Abiy wants be inaugurated and be sworn-in. Be in the bash of glory and create tales of grandeur. The Prime Minister wants so badly to elected and be respected. He wants to be seen as the future of leadership and be the de-facto His Excellency. However, he will be selected for this and with the current state of affairs. He will not be properly elected, but selected. As he has made this a selective election and created an atmosphere not only of mistrust, but of top-notch oppression of dissidents.

The Abiy regime is cracking down on anyone who oppose him. They are creating extremists and creating a dangerous sphere. Where if your not part of the click or the ruling elite. You can die in a ditch or be detained forever. As you could be a opponent or activist who is offending the don. The Prime Minister only wants blind loyalty and nobody is supposed to question his reign.

Abiy is either charging, arresting, detaining, burying or getting rid of the ones who are standing in his path. There is no middle ground and a place of moderation. No, there is dialogue or trying to forge a proper relations with the opposition. The opposition are either in jail, in exile or dead. The ones who Abiy fears and knows could hurt his status are challenged by the state or revoked their rights. That is what he does and this is why this whole elections is a sham.

Abiy can talk big about election and democracy. However, when the biggest challengers are behind bars. When their parties and associates are in bracelets. We know the drill and know there is proper election going on. As long as his allies are thriving and he will rule supreme.

I cannot believe this man has the audacity to speak of democracy and leadership received through elections. When he knows perfectly well that he will not have any serious challengers, but pawns on the chess-set. Abiy will only face his own shadow and NEBE is creating a winner circle for his associates as well. There is no reason to not believe Prosperity Party will have a majority and be the big-men in the next term. To think otherwise is naive. Since nobody else have the state apparatus or the possibility to conquer him.

Abiy will win on a walk-over. Heck, he could skate through it all and only do an ollie. That is all he will have to do. Not like he needs to do any serious tricks or show-off. No, he can just breathe on the mic and someone will make a love song out of it.

Prime Minister Abiy will not be legitimized by this. Only consolidate power more and make it seem more real. Since he was just appointed and now his (s)elected again. His not properly elected or even trying to conceal the efforts to win before the game starts. He and his men has already ambushed and destroyed all options for a possible free and fair elections. That’s before the ballots and before the campaigns. He doesn’t even have to try.

He can now run without even trying. There is no reason to do anything really. He will be forced upon the public again and get “validated”. However, not because his loved or respected. No, because every other door is shut and silenced. There is no other choice. That is why this election is insincere and a lie. His just acting like its real, but its fake as it gets.

Abiy is sort of losing at his own game. Because the thing he wants the most he cannot get. This is all his own fault and his own pride. The reason for total control and therefore losing the vital things. The lack of space, liberty, freedom and justice for his fellow peers. That is why we know the game is over and his just another prick with a small dick running a nation. Since he doesn’t have the balls to stand in a credible battle against his opposition. He doesn’t have the stamina or the heart to do so. It is not in him, because he knows he cannot win that game either.

That is why his rigging it and ensuring a smooth ride for himself. While speaking big and hoping the international community is naive. Not seeing it or even hearing about it. So, they can celebrate his “victory” who was just a protocol and a procedure for him to get a valid mandate. Peace.

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Opinion: How many have to die for Abiy to be crowned king?

It is now three years since Dr. Abiy Ahmed Ali became the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. There was so much promise and he seemed like a legit new leader for the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. However, it was all just a lie and a front.

Abiy was the false messiah, the false prophet and the wolf in sheep’s clothing. He came talking peace and wanting to negotiate it. Nevertheless, him and his allies wanted to consolidate all power and strike down anyone who was in their way. That is evident now and that is the reality of his reign.

The Prime Minister who is running for his election. An election which is a farce even before the ballots is printed. There is no sign of peace and a hegemony of hope. That is buried and the bloodshed is evident. So much pain and suffering. So many people have lost their loved ones and the regime is cracking down on anyone thinking ill of the Prosperity Party. There is no peace and there is no mercy.

The Prime Minister is flexing and want to show strength. Though it is all fake and a fraud. His living on a lie and bashes in it. The propaganda and the deceptions will catch up on him eventually. The graves, the masses who is lost and the humanitarian crisis he has committed in the Republic. It will all haunt his reign and it will for generations to come.

There are so many kids who has their parents behind bars for political reasons. There are so many people who have fled the battlefields of Tigray. There are so many schools who become make-shift prisons in Oromia. There is nowhere to see or hear of prospects of hope. Unless, there is pictures of planting trees and industrial complex being built in Amhara.

The Prime Minister is seeing death in Afar, Ogaden, Oromia and Tigray. He is overseeing a murderous click of the Tripartite Alliance and promising free and fair elections. These elections will be worse rigged than under Meles Zenawi. He will be more brutal and be more insincere. The game is rigged and the Prosperity Party is running like there is no tomorrow.

The publicity stunts and the promises are worthless. As long as the gun-smoke is killing the parents, the nephews and the grandparents of the coming generation. When the incoming generation of leaders are behind bars or banned from acting. When parties are deregistered an-mass and the procedures are made all in favour of one party. There will be nothing free or fair… when the competition is lingering in jail. Who is he kidding?

Abiy is a warlord together with allies in Eritrea and Amhara. He is the bloodthirsty king awaiting to be crowned king. The dream he always had. However, it will not be glorious, it will not be pure or refreshing. It will just be another bloody day and a salute from his closest associates. The ones who knows they are dead if they betray his trust.

The 6th Election will be announced and happen but not on the premises which Abiy speaks off. He says the right words, but the acts of the state is devious. He can lie and cheat as much as he wants, but this election is his bastard child. It is the one he got outside wedlock. You cannot promise free and fair elections, when your political enemies are all behind bars. That is not how it works and why you try to eliminate and annihilate anyone who crosses your path.

That is when you become a king of terror and not a peacemaker. The time of peace is over and the time of conflict is here. Abiy will not generate, because he will always find a new enemy and someone’s ambition who he fears. There will be new names, parties and possible prospects who will taste the sword.

The false messiah is here and his twisted tongue tricked plenty of folks, but his lies will be seen for everyone at one point. Right now the citizens and the dissidents are tasting the blunt force of his reign. The unforgiving measures of a man willing to kill anyone to reign supreme. A man willing to destroy and deplete anyone who blinks twice. He will go after them and they will not see tomorrow.

Still he promise peace and abundant wealth for the ones who follows him. While hoping nobody see the ashes and the destruction that gave him the crown. He hopes nobody will look after or ask questions about his brilliant moves to put everyone else in shackles. They are just pawns who got tricked and thought messiah had arrive.

He came, he saw and he conquered. However, the false prophet will continue to lie and deceive. Long live the king and the blood shall run like rivers in his reign. Peace.

Ethiopia: 80% of the Tigrayan population without food – Bureau of Agriculture letter from March says so

The Law Enforcement Operation as destructible it is. The results from the conflict is now coming out. It is trickling out little by little, as the state and the Tripartite Alliance is holding the information close to their chest.

The newest revelation is a letter sent by the Interim Tigray Regional Government and the Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development who wrote this letter to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resources. The letter states that the Interim Tigray Regional Government wanted a Emergency Plan and Request of funds.

It is bad when 80% of the region is going without food. When the Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development that the majority farmers doesn’t have food, seed, oxen and farm tools. Because of the warfare and the open conflicts in the region. The farmers has lost their livelihood, the loss of crops, livestock that was either destroyed or looted. This is why this is a self-inflicted crisis by the Tripartite Alliance in Tigray.

The people are suffering and lacking the ability to be self sustainable as the raving conflict is persisting. The state has made the whole region suffer, because it decided to go to war in November 2020. They are not only letting the former Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) comrades behind bars or killed. No, the Tripartite Alliance is making everyone suffer with the complete destruction of the agricultural sector.

This has been done very quickly by the Tripartite Alliance and their warfare in the region. This is the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF), Eritrean Defence Force (EDF) and Amhara Para-Military Force – Fano. These are the main culprits in Tigray region.

However, this is just one piece of devastation and destruction in Tigray since November. This is not amount of internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees in Djibouti or Sudan. These are also causing prolonged harm and longer time get back to normal in the Tigray region.

The amount of massacres that has been happening on the regular. The unverified numbers of deceased and killed. The use of rape as a tool of oppression as well. All of the horrific acts done to put the people into submission. The destruction of schools, hospitals and other vital institutions, as well as looting and ravaging factories too. All of this will linger in memory and take decades to fix. The scars, the lives and stories that will be told. As the Tripartite Alliance have to take blame and pay the price of fixing it.

Nevertheless, that is the long time objective that is needed. Now the agricultural sector is broken because of the conflict and as it has been targeted. In Tigray region the Interim Government isn’t the believed rulers or representatives. They are the imposed on the general public and not their elected officials, which was deposed in November 2020.

All of the months have gone since the conflict started and now the effects of the warfare is becoming evident. Even the Interim Government states it too and asks for assistance from the Federal Government. Peace.

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Ethiopia: Opposition Leader charged over anti-Tigray War sentiment… [and barred for seeking medical treatment abroad]

We must make it clear that the Tigray people are either not Ethiopians or we must save them from the foreign invaders. If we want Ethiopia to continue to exist as a nation, we must stop the looting, killing, rape, and abuse perpetrated by Isaiah’s forces against the people of Tigray” (…) “If we remain silent whilst this scale of abuse is happening before our necked eyes; then, it means that the Tigray people are not Ethiopians and the Tigray region is not part of Ethiopia. He further said our silence on what is happening in that region will be an unprecedented historical mistake” Lidetu Ayalew, the former President of Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) Party

The CUD leader Ayalew because of this uttering was charged with terrorism,, unlawfully change the constitutional order or overthrow of the government. This offence could easily by sentencing get the politician behind bars for 15 years.

The Deputy Director for the Federal Criminal Investigation Bureau Assefa Atnkut have now written a letter barring him for leaving Ethiopia for treatment and medication abroad. This after the charges have been put on him. The state is clearly punishing him for uttering those words in a interview.

That clearly was to much for the authorities and the Operation Law Enforcement. A man was not supposed to say these words or dare to question the Tripartite Alliance operating in Tigray. That Ayalew did this is now a criminal offence. He has already been behind bars for it.

Now, the state is barring him from leaving the Republic and getting medical treatment. That is the sort of progress the Prosperity Party is delivering it’s dissidents. Such a reforming spirit of Abiy and his comrades. That he doesn’t have the heart for dissent or make it possible for them to get treatment abroad.

That is the sort of state of affairs Addis Ababa wants the world to know of and be the epitome of governance. The ones at the wheel in Finfinne clearly doesn’t care about the opposition. They only wants them gone or behind bars. That is why Ayalew got into trouble anyway. Because, he dared to speak ill of this regime and their actions in Tigray. Peace.

Opinion: Abiy’s election is a sham

We are committed to holding a free, fair, democratic & peaceful 6th National Election. Our follow up meeting today with regions & NEBE evaluated progress made since the last meeting in which direction was set to enable remaining stations to be opened & address pending matters. Elections are a demonstration of building a democratic culture in which differences are addressed through the ballot and not by the bullet. Through the voting process, citizens exercise agency and actively participate in the building of a democratic process” – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali (22.04.2021).

The Prime Minister must take people for fools. He must think people are buffoons and drunk on the regular. Because, these statements is weird coming from him. Talking about free, fair, democratic and peaceful elections. It seems like his delusion have overpowered him or he thinks he can play this facade out without anyone calling him out.

The Prime Minister really trying to be the wolf in sheep’s clothing. The Prince of Peace is already barenaked. The PM is already waging war in his own domain. The PM is already having several of other conflicts and unleashing his armies on the people. So, promising peaceful elections in the middle of all this conflicts is insincere at best.

Abiy must think people are stupid, as the NEBE has deregistered over 50 parties. Other ones have most of their leaders and leadership behind bars. If not they are barred from standing or ability to run a campaign. The like of Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) have had trouble just holding meetings to set forward candidates within the Somali Region. Not to talk about the in-general political captives of the Oromo leadership and candidates. Where most of the OLF and other parties are behind bars. There is no way in this current time there will be fair or free elections. When your competition is either deregistered, detained or dead. That is what Abiy have achieved before the ballot is even cast.

That is why the PM must think people are really stupid. He must think the world in general is dense. That they either neither take his seriously or his just a useful false messiah for some. Because, his not a man you can trust or can see as a viable candidate. Unless, he has put shackles on everyone else or if not ensured their demise. Since it is not like he is delivering peace or fairness into the equation. The only one believing it is eating of the hand of propagandists and token Yes-Men who is serving the PM.

The PM can act like everything is fine and dandy. However, the reality is that its a sham. There will be no election, but another selection of predetermined results in favour of the PM. He will have control of the House of Federation and be the PM with a valid term. His lies and deceit is now all in the open.

He can act like this and say these words. Nevertheless, it doesn’t make it true. Even if all of his cronies and Prosperity Party associates say so. The truth is that his core opposition and leaders on the outside of the previous EPRDF is behind bars. The Prosperity Party will practically run a “one-party” election with a few hand-picked opposition parties. Who is not feared by anyone or is causing any alarm to ego of the Prime Minister. The PM will be safeguarded and just go on a friendly journey to the end. This election will not be free, fair or peaceful. Especially, when there is serious destruction and dismantling of society in the midst of the Federal Republic.

The PM cannot sell this story and make it believable. Only the naive and dense will buy into it. The ones who doesn’t the see the pain and suffering. The ones who doesn’t get the tyranny and despotic manner, which this man rules. No matter of publicity stunt and fine printed statement. Can overshadow the darkness and grim picture that is occurring as we speak. As long Jawar, Garba, Nega and alike is behind bars. This election is a fraud and a fake.

The PM cannot even be brave enough to have true opposition. His such a coward to keep them in prison as political prisoners. They are captive because of his ego and lack of character. If he was a man of his words. They would have been on the ballot and his reformist agenda would have made favours with the general public. However, that is seemingly just a smokescreen and not his true self.

The PM will now run a rigged and predetermined poll. Where we all knows the result and he cannot loose. That is by default… and this is why you shouldn’t be fooled. It is all a lie and the false prophet promise heaven, but given plenty of his citizens a living hell. Peace.