Okkat
1/1//2020
Lately, I feel as if I am behind the two-way glass looking at a line of suspects trying to identify the perpetrator. This is an important stage of a criminal proceeding which needs to be done accurately so that the guilty party is identified and those who have not committed the crime can go free. I am looking at bunch of suspects, and I am asked to identify the one bastard responsible for inflicting so much pain upon his victims. I have a confession to make; I have lately felt that there is definitely a criminal or two in there, but again, I also have some concern that the criminal might not even be one of these poor bastards that I am looking at. I ask you, my esteemed readers to help me ID the right man.Keep in mind that there is a strong possibility that the man we are looking for might suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder), which would obviously meanwe could be at a high risk of misidentifying the bastard. There are three individuals standing against the wall in front of me with a very similar futures and I can’t seem to identify which one of them isthe true Ethiopian prime minister. Here are the three personalities I am looking at: An inspirational young visionary reformist with some of the qualities of Gandhi, Mandela, Lech Walesa and few other dreamers that I will not mention here. naïve and foolish academic who have no idea what he is up against similar to that of Gorbachev and again few others around the world who tried but failed. A much more interesting, mischievous intelligence officer who exaggerated his academic achievements and whoseplans are devilish withan unthinkable level of cruelty that may resemble at bestthat of Putin or Ghaddafi. In his first speech, the one I assumed was the new prime minister of Ethiopia talked about some great stuff; promising to free all political prisoners, ensuring gender equity, allowing freedom of expression, and creating a strong and sustainable democratic system. He seemed to have been a product of three politically dominant ethnic groups as he spoke all three language; Afan Oromo, Amharic and Tigrigna.He spoke to all three dominant ethnic groups in their language and praised them for what they bring to the table. He also hinted that it was time that the Oromos, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia who have been sidelined from national leadership for centuries will now have an opportunity to lead Ethiopia; reasonable, fair and pragmatic political act. He expressed his dismay to the public about corruption at all levels of Ethiopian society. He talked about mercy and forgiveness; putting people in prison is a sign of weakness and killing people is a clear sign of defeat and that the nation must be at peace with itself and its neighbors. This gentleman that I was looking at had the wisdom to praise God in public in a country where the mere mentioning God was seen as a sign of weakness by the leadership of his party whose background was more in tune with the other trinity; Marx, Angels and Lenin than the trinity of the faithful. To show he was serious about peace making, he announced peace with one of the cruelest human beings in the horn of Africa, the president of Eritrea and they stood together and told us that they will no longer fight. They admitted that the border was not the cause of their fight.This was all good and I was sure this was actually the prime minister but then some other person surfaced. This new person I was learning aboutlikes to recite what he calls the “philosophy of Medemer” to a nation with a 25% illiteracy rate thinking that he was actually conversing with all the 110 million Ethiopians,forgetting that he was speaking to only a very few elite urbanites who incidentally, also happen to think that they equal the 110 million Ethiopians. He published his philosophy book and made a big deal and a big day out of it and invited Ethiopians to read and practice the book as a sole remedy to all the challenges the nation is facing. I am not talking about Muamar Gadhafi’s Green Bookhere. Let’s not forget that “Dear Leader Gadhafi was killed just few years ago by those very people he forced to read and practice his green book ( nothing to see here… move along ). Now, I thought I’d finally figured out whothe prime minister of Ethiopia is. Or had I? In his effort to release all prisoners, he went ahead and “let the dogs out”, releasing prisoners that included killers and terrorists,a few who even attempted to overthrow the government while our prime minister was still an upcoming assistant director of the intelligence agency. He also invited and brought back from his trip to some of the most unfriendly Arab countries and the west, military commanders who deserted their platoon in the middle of the most recent war. There were also people among the returnees who openly advocated extermination of the people of Tigray through their mass media. Remember the Rwandan RTLM radio hosts who incited the genocide of Tutsis by calling them cockroaches and snakes? Yeah. Guys like that. Just like in Rwanda, this station had many listeners around the world. Now, this is a modern media outlet in the United States that advocated similar actions against Tigray people in Ethiopia. Now I think I’ve figured out who this new Prime minister of Ethiopia is… Or have I?
