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Most of you will see a meeting between a PP General and a renegade TPLF General.

But that’s a boring surface level observation. This is a handshake between the southern Bareentuma and the northern Bareentuma.

It’s deep…

Well all know you can’t vote the government out of office. But what’s the point of discussing an event with somebody who is not participating in that event?

There are so many young vibrant candidates participating in debates on a variety of important topics. Give them a chance to speak on the event that they are actually participating in.

Prof Marara had his time as opposition leader since 1995. He’s hiriyyaa Meles Zenawi as far as opposition goes. How can we criticize the govt for not opening political space, when 30+ year opposition don’t want to open up space for the next generation who are participating?

I haven’t got a copy yet but from online sources of course the readers are fast forwarding to the Baaroo Tumsa part:

Leenco says when Damshoo brought him to the OLA camp at Maaya Qallo, east Hararge…he was greeted by Jaarraa, Mullis, and Baaroo. After the first general meeting, Baaroo privately told him “Leenco, there’s no place here for us.”

Not long after that Baaroo was killed by Badhoo Dachaasaa.

When everyone came to investigate, Jaarraa asked Leenco what happened. Leenco replied Badhoo shot Baaroo. Jaarraa replied “ifumaaf wal fixxanii!?”

Leenco says his blood boiled when Jaarraa said that.

My opinion:

The OLF in Finfinne and the OLF in the field were two different organizations. Badhoo went to the field with Mullis and Jaarraa in ‘76 when they first started building an army. They recruited him from Finfinne when they returned from Somalia where Jaarraa was imprisoned for 5 years.

Badhoo, Baaroo and Leenco knew each other from Finfinne. So when Jaarraa said ifumaaf wal fixxani, he probably meant the Finfinne group.

Whats clear is Leenco never trusted Jaarraa from the jump. And the feeling became mutual. And Badhoo didn’t trust Leenco and Baaro for whatever reason.

The early OLF was two organizations with intermixing memberships that eventually fell out over a foggy leadership dispute.

Maybe I’ll get the book and it will answer some questions but I doubt it.

Jawar recently did a presentation on investment groups scamming investors in Oromia. This was also partly covered by Caayaa on the government broadcast.

Basically you will have a board that uses known figures to advertise their brand, telling people to pool their money in with their investment group by purchasing shares, which are supposed to be used to invest in different business projects that will earn the investors a return over time.

But the board is just taking the money and running away with it. Their shareholders can’t reach them and don’t know how to get in contact with them years later. Let alone earn a return, they won’t get back their initial investment. A lot of elders lost their retirement savings.

Accountability seems to be an issue in business. These boards often appeal to feelings of sabboonummaa, amantii, gosummaa…whatever makes people emotionally throw their money in. But lack basic professionalism, transparency, or even business skills.

The system in Ethiopia doesn’t protect investors from fraud and lack of accountability, so be careful who you pool your money with.

Some of these investment groups actually do start with the right intentions, but for example one mentioned on OBN couldn’t pay back taxes levied on them by the govt, so they couldn’t renew their license. Instead of calling a shareholders meeting and communicating with them, they apparently dissolved the group unofficially and ran away. Sometimes business gets hard, funds get mismanaged…and instead of being accountable they just poof. Disappear. The problem will eventually go away.

Reminds me of a minibus driver in the countryside who got in a car wreck I saw a few years back. He crashed his vehicle and caused some damage, killed somebodies harree. Of course he had no insurance so he just ran away from the wreckage and hid out in a nearby village. I guess that’s what some of these aksiyoona boards are doing.