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Solomon Bekele quits; EPRP is debating with itself

Posted on , Updated on by Elias Kifle

Millionaire businessman Solomon Bekele seems to have ran out of patience with Ato Hailu Shawel and the crooks he has surrounded himself with. He is now ready to go on the air waves to inform the public what the Shaleqa group is about.

Ato Solomon is a close friend of Kinijit chairman Hailu Shawel. When Ato Hailu started to disregard Kinijit leadership’s decisions in order to protect the corrupt Shaleqa group, Ato Solomon became worried that Hailu Shawel’s name will be tarnished. So as a friend he tried to convince him to distance himself from the Shaleqa group (Yoseph Yazew, Moges Brook and their crooked friends).

Solomon Bekele has also worked hard to persuade Ato Hailu to join the Kinijit delegation that is currently visiting the U.S. But things got too complicated when Shaleqa Yoseph invited (hired) the former chairman of Ethiopian Teachers Association (ETA), Dr Taye Woldesemayat, to join him. Dr Taye has recently been fired by the ETA for misappropriating the association’s funds, among other misconducts.

The unemployed Taye has enthusiastically jumped into the Kinijit internal dispute on the side of the Shaleqa group backed by the Iyasu Alemayehu wing of the EPRP leadership and its media. Iyasu Alemayehu is a top leader of EPRP and son-in-law of the Woyanne-installed President Girma Woldegiorgis.

The rest, as you all know, is history.

This week, after several elders and long-time friends of Ato Hailu have failed to persuade him to sit down and talk with the Kinijit delegation, Solomon Bekele has decided to end his effort and take the matter to the public. On Saturday, Ato Solomon will be interviewed by Addis Dimts Radio.

What individuals like Ato Solomon, who had tried to persuade Ato Hailu to reconcile his differences with the executive committee, have failed to see is that Ato Hailu is being blackmailed by the Shaleqa group. Shaleqa Yoseph has let it be known that if he goes down, Hailu Shawel will also go down over the corruption issue. If a thorough investigation is conducted, Ato Hailu himself MAY BE implicated in Kinijit’s missing funds, according to ER sources.

Regarding the EPRP, the ER Intelligence Unit (EIU) has discovered that not every one in the EPRP leadership approves of what some of the leaders are doing to exacerbate the problem inside Kinijit through their agent Taye. A heated debate is currently underway on this matter within the EPRP hierarchy. The person who is spearheading the attack on Kinijit is Ato Iyasu Alemayehu (nom de guerre Hama Tuma) over the objection of other EPRP leaders. It is also Iyasu Alemayehu who is feeding insidious misinformation about Kinijit to the Indian Ocean Newsletter.

UPDATE
After this article is posted, Ato Solomon Bekele spoke with Ethiopian Review. He said that he did not quit. When asked to elaborate, Ato Solomon said the only thing he wants said for now is that he did not quit. He also said that he will give interviews on this matter when he feels that the time is right.

ER believes that not only Ato Solomon, but every one who is involved in trying to persuade Ato Hailu to sit down and talk with the Kinijit leadership have the obligation to inform the public about their effort and the conclusion they reached.

23 thoughts on “Solomon Bekele quits; EPRP is debating with itself”

  1. Ato Selemon Bekele is a truly son of Ethiopia.He is helping his country strongly.He is smart I don’t think he will waste his time pampering Ato Shawel. Selemon I wish you the best!

  2. It is time to hit the snake on the head. With such an adamance, it is hard to predict good leadership. Whoever has to go must go, and let the struggle take its new course. Such disdain to sincere call for dialogue cannot be acceptable and gives the impression that some beleive they were indispensable.

  4. Congratulation all Ethiopians about HR2003

    Dear Elias

    I can not thank you enough for what you are doing for mother Ethiopia. I am saying this not out of the blue. Look all pro-democracy website and its webmasters. Have they say anything other than reporting news?! To me, journalist needs to comment on current issues. This has been practiced only by Elias Kifle.

    Let alone commenting on factual news, look what Aiga forum has to say regarding HR2003. Last time when HR2003 postponed, they were singing and dancing while drinking Ethiopians blood. Today, they try to clover up with false propaganda there failure by undermine there upsetting news. Fortunately, next to there false propaganda, you can read Ato Samuel’s 3- pages-long full of anger text.

    Whether about Ato Hailu’s dictatorial moves or HR2003s, no one gave us detail and fresh analyst than great brother Elias.

    Regarding Ato Solomon, I can not wait until he comes forward and tells it as it is. By the way, for the successful individual like Ato Solomon, such kind of honest move should not be considered as unusual. Shaleqa Yosef like people who fails to achieve any goal in there life might have nothing to loose. Therefore they might go extra mile to destroy Ethiopians struggle with there corrupted footage. But, people like Ato Solomon needs nothing from Ethiopians and Ethiopia rather than giving.

    Please Ato Solomon, give us some truth about recent crises with in Kinjit. We knew that, since he joined Shaleqa and Dr Taye, Ato Hailu is becoming more and more dictator, but your analyst will be more helpful.

    Elias, keep up the great job; I really am proud of you
    Belew

  5. Elias:

    Thank you for your report. I applaud the courage of Ato Selemon Bekele. Though I had serious disagreement with him for his close association with the Shaleka folks, and his unwillingness to work with the majority Kinijit Support groups in North America, his latest efforts to spoil the evil and unkinijitawi ploys of the Shaleka groupies are surely noticed. Again this demand courage and integrity.

    I thank him again for coming out from where he has been for the last 2 years. I am sure the thousands Kinijit Supporters will welcome him with open arm and give him a second chance.

    Regarding EPRP,I think EPRP members and activits must hold accountable Ato Eyassu. The best thing for EPRP is to work with Kinijit. A strong and winning Kinijit will end the exile politics of EPRP. Ato Eyassu, his controlled websites like Debteraw and his controlled radio Finot Radio must be told that what they are doing is only lifting up the power of the EPRDF.

    Ato Iyassy et others hvae the right to criticize Kinijit. However, they hvae no right to fabricate stories and deceive.

    The EPRP is an organization that paid heavy sacrifices for teh struggle. DO EPRP MEMBERS WANT THE LEGACY OF EPRP BE WHAT ATO IYASSU IS DOING ? DO THEY WANT TO BE KNOWN AS THOSE GROUPS WHO STAND WITH EMBEZZLERS AND AGAINST THE POPULAR TIDE ??????

    I Hope note; and am very confident that EPRP will come out as a strong, open, transparent and democratic organization that works with KINIJIT and possibly be a strong opponent of Kinijit in a democratic Ethiopia.

    GK

  6. GK,
    I don’t know why you have such fixation with Solomon Bekele. You know full well that he is the architect of all this mess. Wait until you hear from Shaleka Yosef Yazew.

  7. thanks ,ato solomon for pulling yourself through at last .you still have to gather yourself and declare about the kinijit money status that you personally admitted to have deposited it in the CD account .this public fund and must be returned .you have indeed played a significant role from day one and must take that responsibility to repair what you have destroyed .you should appologise to the diaspora and true kinijitians for letting them down in denial of the truth . tell us more and thanks

  8. I had an opportunity to work briefly with Solomon Bekele – Well, he is an Ethiopian and he loves his country. Solomon believes he is doing the right think for his people. But he lost truck of the bigger enchilada.
    He shouldn’t compromise his friendship of Hailu with the struggle to free our people. Friendship and political struggle is two different things. I would rather choose to free my people and then, approach my friend afterwards because this is really irrelevant compared to what EPRDF is doing. For example, prior to the millennium, Melese invited several hundred students from different killil (oromo, south and gambela) and lectured them in Amharic but this kid never allowed learning Amharic while in elementary or high school. This type of police would have a devastating effect for the country we call Ethiopia.
    In a nation-state, there should be an official language that every citizens should speak. That sould be what we should fight together. Why EPRP all of a sudden supported you, Shaleqa and KIC?
    This is a quick turn and perhaps they want to bring down the popular movement. Sorry! That will never happen. Of course it’s a political calculation. They knows EPRP can’t compete with the future political system they are the party of the past. believe me, when it comes down to it, it is a political calculation.

  9. Elias,

    We have too many enemies. Blood sucker woyanes, EPRPs,and Feudals. We will break their unholy alliance into pieces and win against all these evils.

  11. i think elias is perfect in one thing which no one else has not yet been even close to .he can correctly anticipate what can happen even if it is not popular with some of us.he is good at taking the risk of being blamed for breaking news .he is bold to call spade a spade.but i am not sure if he can be consistent at breaking the looming disaster of the demise of the diaspora political leadership in ethiopia altogether with kinijit itself. now we better set about future talks about keste demena,allethiopian poeples party,ethiopian democratic league etc.please elias donot block this message becouse it is going to happen .amen

  12. EPRP was the cause for all massacre of the youngsters in Ethiopia’s history during the Durg era.
    And now they are trying to disrupt the struggle by true Ethiopians by hiring mercenaries and tugs.
    They are good for nothing esp. the shaleqa group. However, there are realy true Ethiopians who will die for truth and for Ethiopia still with in EPRP.
    please join the struggle with Kinijit delegation. I was a member of EPRP.
    I can not handle it any more with their corruption. They are good for nothing again. Lidetu the traitor is better undifitunu.

    I applaud Ato Solomon for his courage to distance from these cronies.

    Ethiopia will shine …

  13. Ato Solomon coming out should not mean so much . Kinijit strugle is, to convince and win all those on the wrong side of the fence “even woyana”. Because not all people are where they are intentionaly aiming to distroy, but some who are not easily noticed have always sniked inn…

    BY THE WAY…DEAR ELIAS DID YOU SAY THE FOLLOWING????
    “”””Shaleqa Yoseph has let it be known that if he goes down, Hailu Shawel will also go down over the corruption issue. If a thorough investigation is conducted, Ato Hailu himself MAY BE implicated in Kinijit’s missing funds, according to ER sources.””””

    I hope you are wrong, I pray! all the above comments should have noticed and say something about what I pointed out of your article.

    LETS HOPE FOR THE BEST…

  14. አቶ ኤሊያስ፡

    አቶ ሰለሞን ወስደዋል የተባለዉን እርምጃ እንዳልወሰዱ መናገራቸዉን ጠቁመሃል። ታዲያ ለምንድን ነዉ የዘገብከዉን እንደካዱ ከላይ የማትጠቅሰዉ ?

    አቶ ሰለሞን በቀለ መጡ አልመጡ የራሳቸዉ ጉዳይ ነው። “ጨዉ ለራስህ ስትል ጣፍት፤ አለበለዚያ ድንጋይ ነው ብለዉ ይጥሉሃል” ተበሎ እንደተተረተዉ አቶ ሰለሞን ለራሳቸዉ ሲሉ ነዉ። ትግሉ እርሳቸዉ በተቃራኒዉ ቦታ ሆነዉ ቀጥሏል። ወደፊትም ይቀጥላል። እራሳቸዉም ያዉቁታል …..ቅንጅት ማን እንደሆነ …

    ስለዚህ የእርሳቸዉ ነገር ብዙም አያሳስበን።

  15. Here we go again. You are trying to save the “millionaire” from himself by separating him from the corrupt group. Face it, he is part and parcel of the group. Elias, I cannot understand how a smart person like you fails to appreciate the role Solomon played and is playing in exacebrating the so called Kinjit problem, which truth be told, is no more than a problem of an individual manifesting a dictatorial behaviour. Solomon cannot be part of solution, he is the problem. He is the brain and enabler of this corrupt group. Now that the group is getting exposed by the day, he is trying to jump the stinky sinking boat at the 11th hour. He will not deceive any one except some naive individuals like the one who wrote comment #1, perhaps the mother of what she calls “true son of Ethiopia”. Wait a minute, though. The Shaleka will have a lot to say not only about Ato Hailu but any member of the corrupt group that he feels is betraying him. Like you said, he will not go down by himself – he will piggyback some of his cohorts along on the shame ride.

  16. Ethiopia doesn’t expect any thing positive from power mongers feudalists, criminals like eprp and from jobless eprp’s agent taye.IF eng hailu is trying to bounce him self from the popular party kinijit, it is up to him. Ethiopia is not his wife or our ppl who have given their voting card are not his scattered cattle[ or sheep] . as they have voted to him, he refused to work with officially elected kinijit leaders, and started to create his own group from diaspora with eprp’s agent like taye , our ppl will take their back their votes from eng hailu by collecting a simple petition and delivere to eng hailu’s best friend melese, after that eng hailu will shut his mouth and sit in his house with his wife.

  19. I read on another website that Ato Solomon has denied what you reported here.
    The current environment has made me second guess a lot of people that I used to admire.
    I used to admire Ato Solomon for his role in “Enem le hagere” and for his contributions in Kinijit’s early days. Now I hear a lot of things about him from the same people that were praising him..
    Dr. Taye,a hero who was imprisoned for defending teachers of Ethiopia. He once flew back home knowing well that he would go to prison. Now his is in the middle of a controversy that could potentially harm democracy in Ethiopia. Even the Teachers association he once led has nothing good to say about him.
    Eng Hailu Shawel: I just don’t know what to say.

  20. this is my tought my ppl i belived EPRP organization about my 80% of my life time .i never ever disapointed like now .i am hoping EPRP is under seage of tplf or they are out of there mind they don’t give chance cdu

  21. Time will pass, but the love to Ethiopia will never pass.
    Please yehagerae sewoch techachalu, live together love each other. Tigre, ormo, amara, guragae, haderae, kembata, wolayita, anuak etc etc etc please live peacefully. EPRP please stop this kind of division and work with other group, be it EPRDF, KINIJIT, HIBRET OLF ONLF ETC. for the betterment of one Ethiopia. Please take out this person evil thought from your blood.
    Ethiopia tinoralech andd hona.

  22. Time will pass, but the love to Ethiopia will never pass.
    Please yehagerae sewoch techachalu, live together love each other. Tigre, ormo, amara, guragae, haderae, kembata, wolayita, anuak etc etc etc please live peacefully. EPRP please stop this kind of division and work with other group, be it EPRDF, KINIJIT, HIBRET OLF ONLF ETC. for the betterment of one Ethiopia. Please take out this poison and evil thought from your blood.
    Ethiopia tinoralech andd hona.

  23. in the writers mind EPRP is his problem not the issue. if there is a problem in CUD’S leadership the writer should look for a solution to resolve what ever problem there is.
    As far as i am concerned EPRP is an organisation that follows its owen principle and run the poletical show as it pleases. every one blames RPRP for it owen mess, including DURG, WOYANNIE All the poletical organisations which appeared in the name of ETHIOPIAN people. my advice for the writer is try to clean your owen mess before you jump on some one elses wagon and tryiong to act like a saint. I am sure the writer had admired the people he is accusing as thives now ones in his participation as what ever position he has. lets not to be quick to insult but appreciate what ever contribution the individuals has given.
    MAY GOD GIVE YOU A SOFT HEART AND A BIG BRAIN TO EVALUATE THE SITUATION BEFORE YOU ACT.

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