ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (AFP) – Ethiopia’s state minister for communication affairs [who works under the propaganda chief Bereket Simon] has refused to return home from the United Sates after an official visit, a top government official told AFP Wednesday.
Ermias Legesse was issued with an 11-day visa and left for the US in the second week of June, but has not returned.
“He didn’t report back, but there is nothing political in that,” said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“He has chosen to stay there. It seems he has dreamt about going to the US,” he added. “Sometimes strange things happen.”
Ermias, who is in his thirties, was appointed to the position earlier this year.
The US embassy in Addis Ababa declined to comment on the matter, but a diplomatic source said Ermias “has not been reachable for several days.”
29 thoughts on “Bereket Simon’s assistant defected in the U.S.”
Good. no serv tyranny forever. i hope other follow like Ermias. god bless mama Ethiopia.
He did well and good. No more serevant for meles weyane and bereket aramu. god bless mama ethiopia.
no more serevant for weyane. god bless mama Ethiopia.
Ye-bereket melas tekoretech!!!
Take him back like that guy Kelebesa Negeo
So what. He has got to do what he has got to do.
Ermias Legasee took smart decision, instead of weapon of wayne it is better to stay here. He is very young. I personally forgive him, his recent comment about Bulchaa Demksaa. Let him with ethiopian people.
The guy was vocal and laud…this tells u all the hodams will be used and thrown like cheap “made in India” condom! Hodamoch where ever you are learn a lesson and abandon they tyrant!
Oh well,…nothing earth shattering, countless others before Ermias Legesse (including your’s truely) have done the same for this or that reason. Othes will step in and life goes on ….Ces est la vie!!
Defecting is one thing and keeping quiet is another thing. If indeed this gentleman defects he has to expose the regime as insider. We have not seen like Tesfaye Gebrab who expose TPLF armed with many facts on his hand.
Ato Ermias speak up and I hope you will not be a converted preacher like Tamerat Layne. By speaking up you will save another human being and please contact VOA and tell the truth.
Yechalal !!
I wish him luck in his life.
I was the first person to angry at his interview with VOA few months ago regarding Ato Bulcha. But,I now realized that,he did everything just for servival.
So,we have to support him. We have to understand that,what would be happened on him,If he weren’t responed for VOA like that at that time.You can imagine that Bereket or Meles will sent him to jail for fabricated reason,If he was ok with the idea of Mr.Bulcha at that time.
Any ways,I would like to encourage and give him a moral support.God job brother!!!
Please guys,show him your support.He is not Meles or Bereket who ate the flash of Ethiopian kid in 2005.
We expect to listen from him a lot of stories about woyanne
Hagos: Only under Woyane regime can somebody (who can’t express himself ) be minister of communication & propoganda. The important matter is he should have a quality of brutality to press the poor Ethiopians. Mefred kelibe new; How ca a ” GEMED AF ” be a propaganda Minister?
We don’t need any Woyanne servants to come to the United States with the stolen money from the Ethiopian tax payers. We want them to stay there in Ethiopia till the judgment day. We will then decide who will be qualified to come to the United States or who will go to the Qaliti Jail.
I was thinking when Meles was in Rome for few days, the army at home will over throw him as the bodyguard tried to overthrow Emperor Haile Selassie while he was visiting South America. But in those days the bodyguards understood each other because they all speak Amharic, a unifying language to overthrow or to support a regime; however, today’s Ethiopian army, I think, is composed of different ethnic groups with different languages: the Amhara soldiers do not understand what the Tigrean soldiers say, and the Tigrean soldiers do not understand what the Oromo soldiers are saying. If these soldiers do not understand or trust each other, then Meles Seitanawi can stay more than one week in any country without fear that his army of the Babel would overthrow him. What a lucky guy!
Good for him. It is never too late to abandon the sinking ship.
he did not return in the date he was suppoed to return, so we are not sure yet if he has defected. If he really defected, he will speak out to the media.
Let us just wait to hear from himself.
Elias, you can hunt him in washington where he is hiding and get him for interview. kkk
I am a little bit skeptical about his defection.Woyanes usually make tricks.He might have been sent to do something that is politically important for woyanes.
Let us wait and see.
He did nice. I think he suffered a lot by the weyane (bada group) for the past years he served. Weyane is against his mother lnad. He thought that weyane is a son but he found out that weyane is a banda against mother Ethiopia.
What we get from weyane?
Noting. Only backward movement. Ethiopia is with out port. Ethiopia is giving her land to Sudan, Jibuti, ….because of the banda group, WEYANE.
DOWN WITH WEYANE.
I hope mastawesha no 2 come soon
Ato Ermias Legesse,
congratulation for deciding to leave the sinking TPLF ship rather than to go down with it. A very wise decision.
MAFiA rule will end soon in Ethiopia. The days of Woyanes is numbered. The END is coming !!!!!!!
If Ermias has defected, we must be wary of his intention. It may be spy on us pretending to be an opponent of the regime. Watch out Elias Kifle.
better late than never. Ermiyas’s decision is smart. but I need more from him to do. he need to come forward and tell Ethiopians the tplf’s crime against the country and its people.
thanks.
Don’t forget about these tyranny strategy. They have already sent lot of cadres abroad so that they can integrate and work with the Diaspora. If needed to kill people, who worked for them and knew their deep secret.
Hi Ethiopians, this is not surprising.If he did like the Generals, we believe him. Otherwise, we have to suspect him, perhaps, woyane send him to penetrate Ginbot7 like Lidetu ‘bandaw’. Becareful,guys!!!! We are not bitten twice by snake. That was enough because we did not know where was hidden snake.Now, golden Ethiopians made their nest (G7) to protect themselves from such kind of hidden snakes. But if he did truly, I appreciate and thank him. Let me say one Ethiopian proverb for g7 leaders,”Lebilih ainegrum, Lanbesam aimetrum.” I love you, really, I am telling yo yhe truth. Be I believed Kinjit, as a role model to lead and organize people for the strugle of liberty. According to Dr. Birhanu, it did not have organizational strength to lead the people.Thank syou.
Non-woyane Ethiopians who support the killer machine Meles are as guilty as the rest of woyanes for supporting a man that have killed their own people. Shame on these idiots! They have sold their soul for the mighty dollar. The non-woyane Ethiopians must have proved to Woyanes to be trustworthy in order to be a member of this brutal regime. May be they have to go through some kind of initiation to join the gangster woyanes.
There is a part of me that hopes and believes may be this man joined woyanes as a young naïve man, and now as a mature adult man recognized the brutality of woyanes and his conscience bothered him to continue working for a dictator. Anyhow, I hope and pray that all the non-woyane Ethiopians who work for Meles get out of there one by one and stand with soldierty with the rest of Ethiopians.
very timely move by the person named above who I have no knowledge about until now. I suggest he watches his back because USA is not clean of the mercinaries, incase you were not aware things happened to many defectors right here in the USA
Good job Ermi, I know Ermias very well as I worked with him for 2 years before he joined EPRDF. He is a very nice and smart guy. As far as I know, he wasnot a real politician even if after he assumed a position in Kilil 14. Anyways, welcome to the USA and the land of the free.
Hope to meet you one day