
“Arrests of civilian population continues overnight in Somali State (Ogaden). Dozens of youth & activists arrested in Degahbur town & 10 ONLF veterans arrested in Wardeer town in last 24hrs. House raids at night Increasing all over the Somali State. Public protest increasing” (Ogaden Diaspora Council, 21.02.2022).
“More than 10 ONLF Ex-soldiers have been arrested in Wardher, the capital of Dollo in the Somali region. The government of Mustafa Omar has imprisoned Former ONLF Fighters and Central committee members ONLF deal in 2018 a peace agreement with the Ethiopian government” (Muhammed Abdullah Ali, 20.02.2022).
A week ago on the 15th February 2022, I wrote this start and it’s fitting one week later:
“The Somali Region or the Ogaden region will be set on fire, as the Federal Government and Regional State Government will crack down in the youth and the opposition voices there. They will claim that these are trying to overthrow or a coup d’etat against Somali Region President Mustafa Omar Agjar. However, he was never elected or a representative of the people of the region. He is an unelected regional capo-regime of the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali” (Minbane, 15.02.2022).
It was just like scheduled programming and the Prosperity Party imposed government is doing exactly what we could expect in the Ogaden region or Somali Region of Ethiopia. That is very evident by the recent arrests in Ogaden. This just shows what the state does and how it cracks down on civil society, opposition and dissidents in general.
We are now seeing a clear picture and regional president Mustafa Omar Ajar is clearly doing his bidding of the Addis Ababa regime. He is serving the same sort of vicious tricks, which we have seen in other regions during the Medemer Terror era. Therefore, the acts in Ogaden follows a pattern.
Nobody should be shocked by this, but this a reflection of how the Federal Government of Ethiopia is operating these days. The same is now happening in Ogaden, as it has happened in other parts of the Federal Republic.
Now, the reports are out and the speculations earlier in the month was right. The state has now started to use all means to silence and shut down the opposition there. Peace.
















