By Solomon Bekele
I just finished discussing the matter with both Abebe Belew and Elias Kifle. Elias promised he would write a disclaimer immediately. Let us wait and see. However, in the event, he is not forthcoming with his promise; the following will be my statement.
“I was surprised to read a statement in Ethiopian Review with respect to my quitting Kinijit. It is totally a fabrication of some individual or individuals trying to stir division and animosity within the Kinijit family. I did not give any kind of interview to any media outlet including Ethiopian Review or Elias Kifle indicating that I am quitting kinijit or the movement to bring about democracy in Ethiopia. I regret that my name was invoked in such smear tactic to achieve disunity and confusion in the Diaspora and further mud the struggle. I have requested Elias Kifle to have the courage and follow the ethical standard of professional journalists and to write a disclaimer indicating the article is based on unfounded story and rumor.
I trust that he would do just that for the sake of the Diaspora which deserves the truth. This is not the time to spread false and baseless rumors, that will divide us and create great distrust between the leaders and the Diaspora. I have great admiration and faith in the leadership of Engineer Hailu Shawel and the people I work with. I have no earthly idea that motivates such blatant false rumor unless it being instrument of disunity. I urge Ethiopian Review staff to adopt ethical and professional standard regarding Ethiopian political struggle. I here by request Ethiopian Review to recant the erroneous and misleading statement it distributed this morning.”
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Note from ER Publisher
It is good to finally hear from Ato Solomon Bekele himself. The conflicting information that we have been hearing about Ato Solomon’s role in the Shaleqa gang of thieves has now been cleared up. He is definitely one of them.
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No, it does not seem he is one of them. I think he is trying to be diplomatic. Anyways, it is good to know who is who.
Elias, you are funny. I have not laughed like this since I came to N.America 15 years ago. I laughed again and again because of your comment to Solomon’s response.
thank you
for the sake of the profession of jounalism .Mr.Kifle Please put aside your wishes and hopes. and report The truth always nothing but THE TRUTH …at the end of the day .you will not be ashamed of your own deeds .I hope god give ya a courage for it.I pray for you to report only THE TRUTH
Solomon Bekele was, is and will continue to be one of the thugs. Even worse, he is the Archbishop of the ills of KINIJIT Diaspora. He has to be condemned.
Elias, Please Please be patient!!!!!
Thx
Are you out of your mind? Just because someone disagrees with your or disavows your unsubstantiated rumors and innuendos that person is ‘He is definitely one of them’…whatever that means!
Listen, you have every right to disagree with whomever you wish, but please make sure you do it civily and based on facts.
BTW, I am impressed with your courage at posting Ato Solomon’s response…assuming it was not done at pain of a lawsuit.
Tazabi,
Laughter is a medicen, keep laughing!!!
ER’s satires and Intelligence Reports (IRs) are meant for fun and laugh, although they may annoy some byzentine politicians such as Taye and Yosef Yazew
Your conclusion is absolutely absurd. Ato Solomon Just said that he did not quit Kinijit. Nothing more. You should have left it there. But as always you could not help it.
Elias, It was a good response to Solmonn’s article You told who he is.
Keep it up
Damakise:
Thank you to the information about Solomon Bekele.He is one of Shliqa’s gangister.We don’t care about Leba group.We care only about our country.Solomon good for you.And go ahead for your distruction.But you have to know you never ever do any thining on the Dispora struggle.We will be strong.But shame for you.
Elias i appercite you are the new generation journalist
good job
Mr solomon bekele, to adopt ethical and professionalism? Whether you belive or not you will be one of those kinijit’s money snatchers [1.2m dollars]. ato solomon , bekele, are you talking about ethice? Do you have any human’s ethice? how could you bravely take the money of the popular party kinijit and created a fake kinijit behind the closed door? Our eng hailu is being elected by our ppl at home as a member of house representative and as aleader of kinijit to work with officially elected kinijits’ leaders to accomplish their promise for our ppl. but saddly enough eng hailu is being hijacked by shaleqa/moges brooks’ gang including you,he has laready started insulting his colleages [ kinijits’ leaders like dr birhanu and w/ro birtukan].ato solomon ,please forward my question to your hostage eng hailu, is our ppl at home voted to him to work with self assigned “kinijit’s leaders like un employed taye and eng hailu’s wife cousin shaleqa yosef or he is going to work with officially elected kinijits’ leaders? Where is our 1.2m dollars?
Elias,
I thought you were smarter than this? How could you have believed that Solomon Bekele is different than the others? Isn’t he the one who finances Tensae Radio that is currently broadcasting insults and false accusations against Birtukan Mideksa and her delegation? Without Solomon Bekele there is no Tensae Radio. I am sure you know this. How could you miss that? I think you should call your Intelligence Unit “Unintelligent Unit.” In fact let me tell you that Solomon Bekele is more of a trouble maker to Kinijit than both Taye and Yoseph.
solomon says, “i regret my name is invoked in such smear tactic to achieve disunity & confusion in the Deaspora & further mud the struggle”. Wow!! Give us a break. You are full of yourself. Do you really believe there will be confusion & disunity because a reporter uncovers your role with the shaleka’s mafia group. I guess you are not reading the news lately. Come out of your cocooned little world and see how Ethiopians are united behind the Kinjit high level delegation despite the smear campaign conducted by your group with the help of the defunct eprp. Your self serving importance has no bounds. You and your group are self appointed leaders of some confused hodam coteries who know no better. You will confuse no one. If you want to rehabilitate yourself, come out clean, apologize for your disruptive role, and even much better tell us what happened to the $250k diverted to a personal CD account.
No one said Solomon is quitting KINIJIT since he never been
one other than being the Mastermind egomanic who worked hard to weaken the people’s struggle. Solomon is a member of his own futile ego bent on being at the center stage of everything the Diaspora does. I believe that his lack of formal education may have contributed to his lack of clarity and confidence. Did I hear he said ethics? Mr. Bekele, where is your ethics when you lied that you pledged thousands of dallars for KINIJIT for the last two years? Where was your ethical behavior when you sold the 10,000 lapel pins for $10 a piece and did not account the money as the auditor, Mr. Asamnew said?
You want to be the center of attention in your little way and HERE YOU GOT IT!!!!!!!
The bigger picture here as I see it is that in Africa but specifically the current Ethiopian regime along with a few rebel gorilla movements have experimented with controlling ALL the state industries and controlling them for not only the benefit but to make sure when push comes to shove, the ruling party is sustained by these industries they control. Obviously, besides controlling the state industries or in an attempt to control the major economic sectors of the countries (Ethiopian Airlines, Mesfin Engineering, etc. etc.), the regimes need the richest business people more than even that (i.e., Al Amoudi) for the Zenawi regime. Can Mr. Solomon Bekele be a future partner of the Ethiopian government?? After all they all start the relationship early before they usually take power just like Al Amoudi did and has done.
It is interesting that this S. Bekele is soooo involved in the matters, it’s obvious he’ll be a major beneficiary in the future. I wonder if Al Amoudi is secretly helping out Kinijit!?! At any rate, the elite business people are important to the future of Ethiopia let alone of the party to keep them there just like Al Amoudi helps keep Woyane in power with his $$ especially at times of war, no wonder he gets preferencial treatment and owns 30% of ALL development projects in Ethiopia, his family or grandchildren will own a major portion of the Ethiopia economy and may not work a day in their lives!! I have a feeling Solomon Bekele will try and do the same although to a lesser degree.
My overall point is that:
1) There is nothing wrong with rich people helping out any party, after all, in a democratic society, this happens all the time, in fact, countries have gone to war for greater economic interests, too bad Woyane/Al Amoudi won’t take Asseb back! They’d make at least $500 Million at this stage of Ethiopia’s exports alone every year. But I am sure that’s a nother matter left for future leaders to ponder.
2) I think Elias Kifle is currently one of the most influential Independent Journalists ever! Especially at this critical momentum where Kinijit needs to prevent hijacking of the party and remain a party of integrity and principle. It’s sad that the whole point of this issue is Hailu Shawel obviously have decided (knowing the Ethiopians are worried about the corruption and the hijack of EPRP) Still remains on the shaleqa group! This will not seat well for a long time as Ethiopians will demand different leadership!! After all, the Shaleqa group or Hailu Shawel does not OWN Kinijit, the Ethiopian people at large do cause they’re the ones that will vote to put them in power.
3) I urge Elias Kifle and the Intelligence Unit (cute name) at large to keep doing what they do, even more so, cause ultimately, they are serving the Ethiopia people and more importantly somehow are influencing bad decisions from being made and for that they should get an award and be in Ethiopian history books!! They are doing a GREAT SERVICE to Ethiopia!! Thanks Ethiopian Review and you should be more aggressive and don’t let the games of the behind the scenes and their changing their minds about what they were about to do stur you wrongly…to say ER is doing a great job would be…an under statement!
Further, S.Bekele is not running for office, he’s only being diplomatic for his own interests and nothing more, after all, he’s only a business man. But obviously, he DOES NOT want to upset or rub the Shaleka Group the wrong way by giving the impression that ER is right…this I think is shameful of this Solomon Bekele. Otherwise, he’s not important the matter of Hailu Shawel and the alliance of the Shaleka Group is a bigger issue that Ethiopians SHOULD NOT WAIT but demand Hailu’s resignation after the facts if nothing comes of this behind the scenes in two or three weeks, these are not major issues to work out people!! Buying time on this matter only helps Shaleqa Group NOT Kinijit’s integrity.
Thanks Elias, your doing a great job buddy!
S.K.
S.K.,
You are right when you said Solomon is not running for office. However, he has been running his mouth for so long on the air and off the air as if there are no wise and educated individuals in the Diaspora. Can some one prove to all of us that Solomon has any money other than the line of credit he finances his way of life. A few weeks ago, we heared him say on Merchaw’s radio that he paid for Hailu Shawl’s medical bill while he was being treated during his incarceration.
It is not a secret for many of us in D.C. that Solomon Bekete is the father of all the corruptions in the shaleqa gang. I was wondering why you were covering up for him. I was starting to think that he may be related to you or pay for your web site expenses. I am sorry to think that. But I still want to know why you spared him while mercilessly exposing Yoseph Yazew and Moges Brook. Any way, thanks for finally dragging him out and put the bright sunshine of truth on him. Actually he did it himself with a little provokation from you.
Those of us who are buying auto insurance from Crown Insurance for a taxicab coverage should boycot Mr Solomon Bekele.He does not deserve our money because he is a crook businessman & an enemy for thoes of us who are united. We all know what he did in Atlanta and trying ver hard to do the same thing in DC…