EDITOR’S NOTE: Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Addisu Legese says figure of needy is deliberate exaggeration by some institutions. There are only 4.5 million people who are hungry, according to Addisu. Read more about what this sick heartless Woyanne says below as reported by WIC (Walta Woyanne information Center).
Addis Ababa, June 13 (WIC) – Institutions that exaggerate the food shortage in Ethiopia and report inflated figures of the needy are intent on belittling the economic growth of the country and calculating their interests, Deputy Prime Minister Addisu Legesse said.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development told journalists yesterday that some institutions engaged in relief work consider the decline in the number of the needy as a threat to their existence.They therefore have been suggesting to report inflated figures so as to get huge assistance, he added.
According to Addisu, the number of people facing food shortage due to the shortage of Belg rains in some areas of the country stands at 4.6 million and the government has been providing assistance for them.
The food shortage has occurred in some woredas of SNNP, Oromia, Somali, Amhara and Tigray states, it was indicated.
Though various institutions have been reporting exaggerated figures of needy people, a study carried out by the government has ascertained that the number stands at only 4.6 million, he reiterated.
The figure includes people living belg growing regions as well as households embraced under the safety net program of the government, the Deputy Prime Minister added.
Of the stated figure, the number of children under the age of five and in need of follow up and support is just 75,000, it was pointed out.
Some 775,000 quintals of food has so far been apportioned to the people since last February, he said, adding that medical care was also given by earmarking 50 million birr budget, according to him.
The government would further enhance the support it has been rendering to the people needy in collaboration with partners, the Deputy Premier concluded.
14 thoughts on “Addisu Legese says food shortage in Ethiopia is exaggerated”
what good do you expect from an Adgi?
Addisu Legesse is a donkey!
OK,
I will give it to you Mr. Weyane want be that most NGO do indeed exaggerate some catastrophe for that is how they make their living. But, could you explain to me then, Mr. Weyane kiss ass, how is it just yesterday your Ambassador to great Britain was begging for the same amount of aid be given to Ethiopia, for “Ethiopia will make good use” of the donations – adding as you know, Ethiopia is sitting in the volatile Horn region and “We need that food aid to help stabilize the region.” Actually, we know why the Weyanes beg, beg and beg it seems for ever. They use or I should say misuse the money for buying armaments so they can have a huge standing army which is ready to go to hell, as it were, in a moment’s notice. Hey being subservient to foreign interests doesn’t come that cheaply. When the Legesses’ dine and wine on that alms, the poor rank and file of the Weyane army get decimated everywhere they stick their nose in. That is a shame and that is the reality Ato Lidetu.
Addisu it was true that our CRIME MINSTER meles said that any ordinary peasant farmer is a whole lot better than you. However one thing that our Crime Minster didnt realize that Hitler was a whole lot better than meles, since Hiter had killed more outsiders than his own citizens, but meles and his TPLF idiot party has been killing many of thier citizens than outsiders. By the way Elias what do you expect from Addisu, he is just a messager( DEDEB AKATARI) for major weyane members, interms of power a chairman of any kebele who is ethinically tigrian has more power than addisu, tefera and others who are not ethinically tigrians but work for weyane. The major elements in weyane are those tigrians weyane who are memebers and part of weyane. The others are just ACHAFARI,ACHEFECHAFI AND ACHEBECHABI NACHEW
I am embarrassed that such ignorance would come out an ETHIOPIAN’S mouth. Although there are intelligent people in ethiopia, ADDISU is not one of them.the ones that are NOT smart are always blaming the countries problems and failures on SOME ONE ELSE. addisu must be a serial rapist who celebrated last Ginbot 17 year of stealing and murdering peace loving ethiopians. Addisu, zenawi, abay, are all rotten apple..
The sad part about this suffering is that the poor people who are the victims of Woyanne’s evil economic agenda are the people, sadder even is that Woyanne and their masters actually believe the “11%” economic growth, as per the World bank and the IMF Woyanne is following their prescription to the tee, their numbers say Woyanne’s economy is growing, this is what happens when you blindly follow your master’s economic prescriptions which ultimately lead to disaster after disaster and famine after famine because the economic prescription is not designed to benefit the people of Ethiopia, its design is the opposite, to benefit the bankers who lend the money, the corporations who exploit Ethiopia’s natural resources and of course the crumbs that the Woyanne cadres and their puppet business men who make money off the backs of the Ethiopian people. All those I mentioned above are doing fine, their income has grown year by year while the people of Ethiopia are suffering and going hungry.
Look at Eritrea, it gets less rain than Ethiopia, for the most part has seasonal rivers and less arable land than Ethiopia yet the people don’t go hungry, the government rejected the World bank and IMF prescribed economic prescription and embarked on self reliance and food self sufficiency, as a result it is well on its way in achieving food self sufficiency by transforming rain fed agriculture to irrigation based agriculture, built hundreds of medium and small dams, water reservoirs, embankments, roads and other infrastructure without a penny from the World bank and IMF. over 60% of Eritrea’s population has access to clean water, all of the population has access to medical care and reduced malaria mortality by 80%.
The reason I wrote the above paragraph is to illustrate that the only way to improve Ethiopia’s economy is through self reliance and getting rid of the NGOs and other organizations like USAID who are nothing but viceroys of poverty, hunger and neo-colonial economic structure. For Ethiopians to do so first order of business is to get rid of Woyanne and any other so called intellectuals who think kissing up to western neo-colonialists is the only way to progress.
Elias
We shouldn’t expect honey from mosquto. addisu leggesse is one of the speaking tools of serpent woyanne and apart from what he did with ex-aheya neji,seyum mesfen, by going to Sudan to sell our land just because he is told to do so by his boss and now he is trying to tell us the crime against humanity is really exaggerated I call it crime against humanity because southern part of the country has never been starved and yes, this crime against humanity is well orchestrated by mr headless addisu, his boss, and there sinister co. Ethiopia needs real and radical change. Blood suckers from tigry must go to hell once and for all. Our motherland needs major clean up from top to bottom for that we must stund up together in one.
The more hungry people there are in Ethiopia, the more donated money Meles gets, and so why is Addisu Legese afraid of telling the truth that there are 8 or 11 million Ethiopians without adequate food and medical supplies? The Ogaden and the Oromo people have been fighting the Woyanne soldiers for many, many years, so whenever they try to work on their farms, the Woyanne soldiers burn and destroy their farm crops; therefore, these innocent people deserve to have world attention; they must be helped and fed by the UN, if not by Meles regime.
This fascist does not understand even one hungry man is too many. Does he think those 4.5 million (by his own estimate) should be let go starving. According to him,does this mean the gov’t can only respond when the figure is more than 4.5 million? Well I have news for this dumb ass, the entire Ethiopian people are starved for food and most importantly starved for the day these parasites go off their back. This guy is the one who gave the firtile lands of Quara to Sudan. What do we expect from such moron.
To add to what Eritrawi stated above, if one doesn’t care about his country or people, NGOs are great. They will spend usually about 20% of their allocated budget on the country or system they are supposedly helping. So if aid for Ethiopia is advertised, say, $10,000.000. In reality the $800,000 is spent as “Overhead” to the ferenjis. Of course, they are not going to live in city slams, eat little and less expensive food (or go hungry) like the locals are condemned to do, they are not going to take public busses and gari like the locals (if they are lucky) do. Unlike the local population which believes going to Ambo from Addis is such entertainment from heaven, the NGO people will go visit their family members, spouses and boy friends and girl friends by flying abroad at least twice a year. They normally will have a four wheel drive vehicles so they may visit the “Needy in the remote part of the county”. They actually do that mainly for “shirishr”! They will have to rent expensive villas, not a plain tukul or downtrodden dwelling where many Ethiopian families languish. Oh yes, they have to have at least two gered or slaves. Many of them have a zebegna, a gardener and a cook. So, you see my friends, these poor NGOs need every bit of the money that is collected in the name of poor and starving people like we have in Ethiopia.
What do u expect from Woyannes?
All Woyannes and their kids have every thing inhand.
Only poor Ethiopians are starving.
Clearly, the robber is not telling the truth; and shall be taken accountable for every single lie he told the public and the world.
Well, you robber, you shall be taken responsible for driving the citizens into such mess leading to starvation of millions of people.
The Second Hidden Hunger.The first one was the 1983 Great Famine Filmed by Jonatan Dimbilby.That famine resulted in the overthrow of the Emperors’regime.We expect the same would happen to Woyanne’s regime.The days of treachery and manuvearing are over.No body lends ear to Woyannes’habitual lie.
Yes, Life isn’t fair when the poor get hungry, the WEYANES and NGOS pockets get fatter.