For the Woyanne tribal thugs, it seems every solution comes from the barrel of the gun. If they want to bring down the price of commodities, they go out and arrest vendors. The irony here is that most business activities in Ethiopia are controlled by Woyanne. Most major industries, from trucking to food distrubution are owned by officials and members of the Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne), including Meles Zenawi’s wife Azeb Mesfin, who is becoming the richest Women in Africa using her status as the wife of a brutal dictator.
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Ethiopia Police Arrests Over 30 Over Price Hike
(APA) – Ethiopian police have arrested over 30 traders for allegedly making a 600 percent increase on the price of salt on the market. The wholesale traders were arrested at the weekend while attempting to stock the commodity so as to make it scarce on the market.
One kilogram of salt was on sale in Addis Ababa for 10 Birr (one USD) up from 1 Birr and 25 cents over night.
Ethiopian Federal Police accused the arrested people of trying to make salt scarce in the country, which has a huge salt resource.
Ethiopian Ministry of Trade and Industry said it will act in collaboration with the police against the “illegal” traders.
It is the first time that government has taken such a tough stance against traders who make high profits on basic food commodities.
17 thoughts on “Woyanne’s solution for inflation: Arrest businessmen!”
weyane worring for those pooor ethiopians not to see them eating food that has no salt. probably they want this bisness also being monopolised by azeb mesfin. nothing more.
As much as I condemn Weyane for their all previous ill deeds, I am surprised by what you wrote here! Do you want them to sit with their hands crossed while few greedy people rob people by creating the dumbest artificial scarcity? Le’s come to our senses.
I think this is worthconsidering issue. The traders in ethiopia are not ethics and profit bound. They do not stand for what is right. Even if the gov’t is the main cause of the problem, the trader themselves are part of it. That is actually why we have a big discrepancy in the lives of people in Ethiopia. Any one who tries to make unacceptable profit deserves a watch.
damed if you do damned if you do not–the editorial policy of ER towards the ethiopian government…chir sil alewedem hulu
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How could arresting poor vendors and retailers bring prices down? The problem is the woyanne economic policy.
History repeats itself.
Yigermal
03.10.2008.
Again and again, the main problems that have been existing in the past and those of that will exist in the future as long the crime family is existing are outlawness and greediness.
first and foremost, the present regime is illegal and undemocratic that kills and arrests citizens who are suspected of aginst the regime.
Nearly 95.41% of all manufacturing and service sectors are owned and run by the crimefamilies. isn’t this illegal?
How could these crimefamilies become good role model for the rest of the citizens while they lead the people by illegal means?
The arrest is simple and clear, saying it is only the crimefamily that does all sorts of illegal activities and the rest of you must simply be living qirh what we are offering you. Period.
What the crimefamily made available for the rest of Ethiopians is misery and suffering. Don’t Ethiopians have to stop this crimefamily from pushing the more than 78 million Ethiopians into a total breadown and disintigerations?
Weyane animals are going to run away like Mengistu. At least Mengistu was honest till the end, but these tribal thugs are raping the country in a broad-day light. They are essentially controling all the income holes in the country and making it their own. I am sure that the Weyanes are exchanging all the Ethiopian currency to US$ at the end of the day they will get up and leave with their money. Azeb (Meles’ wife) has paid over $4 Million to buy a house in DC area where rich people reside. They have also sent their kids to UK, at the end of the day all they have to do is get up and leave. Their money is already in off-shore account.
zenawi with his ugly wife “azeb” will be accountable for all the crimes they committed. The ethiopian people inaddition with HR2003
will hunt them down. Justice will be justified.
Allen
To “AZEB” and Crime minister (Meles)
One day all ethiopian women(mothers) will
questioned you and crime minister (Melese) for sending millions of children/women/mothers and ung girls selling themselvs to ARABS and to starvetion. Count on it. Death to you!!
History repeat it self. DERG did the same thing too. GOD help us to get rid of this devil Meles and all Tigrians from Ethiopia. Because They are part of it no daught about it. Why don’t stand for Ethiopianisim than Tigranism.Leboch.
Victimizing innocents part of their old tricks
Dorze
the woyane’s will use the salt and gold issues to put the hard working Gurages in to their HIV infested jail’s to take the market for themselves remember what happen 10 years ago during the sugar corraption era they used it to put that banda Tamerat Layene and the Star Business Group all of which ars from Gogam to jail and take all the business to Guna Treading a busines that belong to TPLF Woyane. God help Ethiopia from this tugs and murderers!!!
Don’t you know this is called price fixing and against the law. Why are we so blind and quick to hate ever action that is taken to prevent illegal actions.
From among the members of the crime family the most uncontrollable wastful creature found even by the crime family is Azeb. she is so mindless that she wastes a great amount of money that is being stolen from the poor on her personal desires and has she now thinks money is like water going down into her apacious belly.
The greatest problem with her is the lack of sense for the value of money and the consequence of her complete ignorance on nearly every thing that is associated with money.
this tiny draqula is so stone-heart that she doesn’t even think the money she is wasting is the money that is being stolen from millions of Ethiopians.
Is she a fit mother to takecare of her own children let alone she could for the toher children she claimed she has to takecare?
The solution to avoid inflation is not arresting individual traders as Elias Kifle hinted in the title of this piece-news.It is to produce and import enough commodities to the people.In fact there must be price control even in a free market economy.The regime didn’t do
that before.If Meles Zenawi was a person that can learn from his mistake,he could have formed a council of Economic Advisors By appointing The seasoned economist Dr. Berhanu Nega.However,Meles doesn’t trust other Ethiopians except his tribesmen or women.
Anyhow,although it is not the solution, I support the arrest of the traders, for they were engeged in Harming the welfare of the sociated.
Of course Woyane is one of the most corrupted governments in the world. But some of our so-called business men are also very much corrupted and greedy. They make money not through honest business but at the expense of consumers. Yet, a sustainable war on inflation can only be successful if the supply is sustainably balanced with the demand. In Ethiopia of today everything seems to be in a dire supply shortage, including good governance.
where do you people get your facts? Really, why can’t we ever have balanced views Your interest in Ethiopian politics seems to rise from wanting to tell yourselfs that there is more to your life than meet the eye. I wonder how many of you have even been to Ethiopia in the past 10 years. Please i beg of you – get your facts straight. And rise above your biases. You’re doing the same thing that we accuse the current government of doing. I wonder how most people on this site will act, if they ever got a chance at power. I’m very pessimistic to say the least. Why do we love to hate and to point fingures all the time. Hate can blind logic and understanding. Please let us not die blind. Or could it be true what one person said ” it angers us that Ethiopia seems to be doing a bit well, and we’re not there to be apart of it. I’ve been working like a dog for the past 10 years and returned home this summer to find, most of my friends in a much better place than i could have possibly imagined.” At least this guy was honest. In fact he concluded by saying the diaspora’s opinion of current Ethiopia is based on a psycological aim at making oneself believe that he/she is in a position much better than people in Ethiopa. It does make the day go by in a much better fashion. don’t you think. Hate is not the way to helping our country. It’s education, understanding and good heart. Let us be better than the goverment which we are so quick to judge. If any one of us where in that shoes of power ( thank goodness we’re not – it is clear most are far from ready) only God knows what could be the setuation.