The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) has taken a positive step on Thursday to correct its blunder by accepting $300,000 in donation from Woyanne businessman Ato Al Amoudi, a drunkard womanizer and a thief who calls himself “sheik.” (DLA Piper, take that to the court.)
ESFNA president Dawit Agonafer and public relation officer Fassil Abebe had called a press conference at the RFK Stadium in Washington DC on Thursday afternoon to answer questions about the controversy surrounding the donation from Al Amoudi.
Over 20 representatives of the media, including EthiopianReview.com associates, went to the press conference. The two top ESFNA officials have admitted that it was a mistake to receive the donation and that in the future they will be careful NOT to make such a mistake.
Both Ato Dawit and Ato Fassil have presented themselves in a professional and humble manner, and answered all questions with apparent sincerity. Their professional approach and admitting mistake from the outset disarmed all members of the media who went to the press conference to strongly challenge and confront them. Our arrogant, stupid, self-destructive politicians should learn from these two ESFNA officials how to handle crisis and address concerns of the public.
Al Amoudi’s photo was also removed from the stadium on Thursday after disgracing the annual event since Sunday.
The ESFNA officials explained that the money was received without the knowledge of the majority of the Federation’s executives. They said that an interview with one of the Federation’s officials on the VOA Radio broadcast to Ethiopia where he thanked Al Amoudi was uncalled.
Regarding questions about financial corruption, Ato Dawit said from now on the Federation’s financial books will be open to the public for inspection.
ER congratulates the Federation for taking these first positives steps, even though they are a little too late to save this week’s event since only two days (Friday and Saturday) left before it’s concluded.
The Federation needs to take further step and expel from the Federation the culprits, vice president Eyaya Arega, Secretary Samuel Abate, and board member Sebsibe Assefa, who have brought shame to the organization by trying to associate it with a criminal who is helping the Meles dictatorship to brutalize and terrorize the people of Ethiopia and Somalia.
The Federation needs to also keep its promise that it will root out corruption from its midst by instituting a transparent financial accounting system that is open for public inspection.
This is a victory for patriotic Ethiopians in the Diaspora, and a defeat for Woyanne and its hodam servants like Eyaya, Sebsibe and gang.
59 thoughts on “ESFNA takes steps to correct its mistakes”
Congratulations To ER through ER to Tegbar for marvelous job done! Keep the heat on Woyane bandas!!!
That is not good enough.They have to give back the money!!
YES, YES, YES…. VIVIA ESFNA !!!!
BRAVO Ato Dawit and Ato Fassil !!!
Long live ESFN and ETHIOPIA !!!!!!!!!!!
Death to tplf !!!!!!!!!
First of all, the $300,000.00 comes from the blood of poor Ethiopian and it should be donated to the starving people (because of the corrupt tplf regime) of Ethiopia.
Elias you are ambesa. Akafan akafa kalalut…..well I am inspired by that. Selezhe abhune demo yewyoane salayoche ena weyane joro tebioche kemehakelachen enagalte. Hulatcehnem enawkalen ma joro eyeteba enedhone. Eyandandu ye esfna team wouste ye wyenae selaochen ezehu enagalte. Ena mesale kezehu enegemer. Eskemeche zeme belem. Ye eliasen melasle eneketel.
IT’s about time to aknowledge their error of judjement,…that was done in a good manner,…so the money should be sent back where it came from to restore the image of the organisation,…without that it will be very difficult to know how serious they are about their apology.
Well done send the money back show us some courage as a good patriotic Ethiopian the organisation cradebility worth more than the donation.
I have to say Elias (ER) is a hero working so hard to protect the interest of Ethiopia!!! We thank you for all braves ethiopians working so hard to expose the woyane and alamudi dirty trick to buy out the Ethiopians abroad!!!
Our fight will continue till we destroyed the woyane’s bands abroad and in side Ethiopia.
I ask my brave brother elias one thing. See if you creat a data base of the name and pictures of woyanes bandas, that way we need all murderers of this so called woyane goverment. We need to have a good look of all the bandas pictures with the description of what they did and where also when. This including all the ambassaders every where around the world. All the woreda and killel representative of parlament. It is very important to ask all Ethiopians to fort ward thier pictures from local woyane’s news papers. For instant, there is one…http://www.ethiopianreporter.com/content/view/2162/54/
When they come out off Ethiopia, all around the world our people should automatically should recognize them imedateley!!! They will not be any country or town they should hidde!!!
Folks cool down, still the Sheraton Addis Advert is there, and by the way it is an internal deal with the shek. Believe me do u think ESFNA officials wait to this day cuz they didn’t recognize the shek’s photo on display.But at this last moment they come to run for press briefing blah blah …. What a Show! Give a break!
Dear Elias:
Ethiopian review was the first website that broke the news with its powerful condemnation. Therefore, this should be one of ER’s greatest jobs in its existence. For the ESFANA’s officials, I am proud of you for coming clean.
Tonight, I will sleep like a baby.
Belew
every thing must be transmitted again by VOA because Ato Dawit has said thx for Alamudin on VOA when Addisu Abebe Asked him about the donation
good this is the first step and they have to follow the feeling of majority. they should strugle woyane as a citizen and as a leader . it is not a question of politics
rather a question of being Ethiopian.
for sure I will be or go there tomorow. I went only monday.
No, they should not return the donation to the donor. They should donate it to the Ethiopian Famine Relief Organization. After all, it is Ethiopians’ people money.
This is good job Elias just continue this way.
This is should be an experience and we should learn to amicably settle disputies/differences amoung groups in such manner.
God job ER and much appreciation to Ato Dawit and Ato Fasil
What ESFNA has done will be appreciated.
But, I would have said the same to finish what started. Both , Dawit and Facil must resign, quicly. They are already infected by Al Amoudi’s anti-Ethiopian virus.
Watch out !
“Dere Biaber Anbesa Yasir”, Now, it is time to think about our people back home to end their suffering. You made them proud by showing SHEIK phedophil how they feel.He is worse than Meles. When i see their greed for money and the wide open back door for stealing, i start to wonder how bad they are striping Ethiopia that we have no idea of. Let’s stop the crime against humanity. We Can do it,(i’m not Obama’s fan) but We Ethiopians can. Lets unit.
Regards
These guys might remove it but it doesn’t mean they won’t accept the money or thank the TPLF Fat Dog behind the public view.
no no dont giv ethe money back it is our money
it is robbed from the mouth of Hungry ethiopians
good job ER ( Shebru) zare kum neger sera
Ewnetu says,
It is a good start for ESFNA, however admitting the blunder and apologising for the error is not enough. As we have repeateldy indicated, ESFNA makes surplus monies from these evetns and has suffcient resources at its disposal to cover its costs and beyond. THERE IS NO NEED TO KEEP TEH ADDITIONAL £300,000 SO GIVE IT THE CHILDREN OF ETHIOPIA.
04/07/08
Well done ESFNA!!!
That “MAN” said”the only thing which I know is I don’t know.”You did good but not good enough.
There are asmesaye woyane jor tebioche amongst us in ESFNA temas. Lets expose them. That is the lesson from this espisode. Once again ocngratualation to ER for it fearless zeal for truth. Maynot agree with Elias in everything he says, but we have to respect this man who puts himself in harms way for the cause he belives in.
The money should be donated to organizations in Ethiopia working hard to improve the life of the poor. One such organization is Hiwot HIV/AIDS Support and Care organization (HAPCSO).
They care for over 7000 AIDS patients and take care of some 6000 orphans on a shoestring budget. You go to their website at http://www.hapcso.org to see the kind of work they do.
Well done ESFNA if you admitte your mistake why don’t you donate the money to the most needed people back home surlely the organisation can live with out the donation.
so is it enough to accept their mistakes ,even to return
the pedophiler’s money back to him,to heal the wound they caused to the biggest org. outside of ethiopia that brings ethiopian together from all walk of life,because of their blunder-taking all decisions that affect these great community in their own hands?what if this is the usual “bilitablit ” woyane type game to calm down the the public anger-watch out!
To me accepting mistake(a big one) is good step in a sense they have opened the door for a major change for restructuring the org.The whole org. could have collapsed due to either intentional or just blunder mistake so there is no way they will be allowed to get away with it ,with out some one taking responsibility.
viva tegbar!
Elias
Thankyou for this news but,that is not at all enough. If they(ESFNA) have the gut, they have to return the junk to the collaborator of killers of our country. Today’s things are not staying as they are. What is the guarantee these people are not going to make the same mistake tomorrow? Return it and I am sure he is not going to knock your door anymore and that is going to be a lesson to the blood sucker sheik.
1. The money should be turned back to the Shek or donate to Ethiopian humanitarian organizations.
2. The officials should go public on VOA and explain their mistake and ask the apology of the Ethiopian people.
3. They should draw a line between being non-profit and for profit organization.
4. The perpetrators should be disciplined and the organizational structural of the Federation should revised.
5. They should promise for the public that such a mistake will never be repeated.
the money should donated to the starving people in our country
Ato elias kifle:thank you for rescuing our community one more time.we need more of you,Having said that i grew up with dawit agonafer,on a personal note he is the most intelligent,humble and Godly man. I am not surprised he took full responsibilty for the assosiation mistake.we need people like him that are humble and also informed to hundle the situation the way he did.elias,there is one thing you left out on your dynamic article,you need to encourage tegabr to lift the boycott and motivate people to go to the events esnf organized then they can make their numbers().If they are with us they are not againt us.I personally will go out today for the 1st time with my family and celebrate ethiopian day and july 4th and have fun and make the best ou of it . God bless you all and may God bless our beutiful country ethiopia and may God also bless America.
Elias, really you deserve deeply, heart felt thanks from the Ethiopian population. I thank you with my family for all you did in this regard.
“Abo Egizer Kanite gar yihum”
On some Woyane festival, Al Amoudi said: “Thank you Woyane for handing Ethiopia so that I can ride on her as much as I wish. I give my life for the cause of Woyane.”
I think Al Amoudi’s hand is in Teddy Afro’s incarceration in Woyane dungeons. Al Amoudi must have been angry at double affronts by Teddy, one time for his refusal to play at the Sheraton and another time during the Millenium, when Teddy called city residents at the Stadium to celebrate the millenium and his Best Song of the Millenium turned everyone crazy including Beyonce.
Woane and Al Amoudi must have gone mad that this guy who loved Ethiopia and Ethiopians so much was willing to sacrifice anything for his Motherland.
ESFNA should have recalled how the presence of Teddy in a previous ESFNA event electrified Ethiopians.
Now they received money from dirty Al Amoudi ignoring all that history!!
But anyway it is good they admitted their mistakes and are learning it the hard way that you cannot avoid Ethiopians in an event where you expect Ethiopians to attend!
We will come Saturday to appreciate ESFNA for not being a knucklhead like Woyane and Al Amoudi and admitting their mistakes.
May the end of Woyane be near!
May God show the way for Al Amoudi to be with the people of Ethiopia than with the criminal organization called TPLF/Woyane!!
God Bless Ethiopia
elias,you know one thing about you, no body is safe with you.you tell it the way it is.Let God of Ethiopia bless you and yours.
I hope it is not lip-service. We need to see/witness their seriousness in the action/practice they would take sooner, not later. We have a legitimate reason to have the benefit of the doubt about ESFNA as we are not short of people who play with words of mouths to calm down the very anger of the people. So, let’s help them to get out of this very terrible mistake by making consistent and constructive ideas/remarks/opinions.
they have to retun the 300 000.they have to show to the people that they return the money.admiting is not enough.
WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THE MONEY? THEY SHOULD GIVE IT TO THE HUNGRY PEOPLE IN ETHIOPIA TO SHOW THAT ALMOUDI SHOULD HELP THE PEOPLE RUTHER THAN INVOLVING IN POLITICS
The money belong to Ethiopian people the Sheik stole it from our people so ,it need to go to the people of Ethiopia. Sheik whate ever his name is owe Ethiopian people Nine Billon US dollers every thing he own stole it from our people.
ONE ETHIOPIA
ONE PEOPLE
ONE NATION
one thing which i don’t understand is that who elected the so called ESFNA predidents,and how long is their term? they have made a lot of mistakes. one of them is receiving money from a person who supports 100% TPLF regime.where is our dignity and integrity. alamode could go to hell with his money,we rather be a poor but proud ethiopian than hodam.we should remove the president of ESFNA and replace all the members. i don’t trust them at all they should be replaced.
Well done Elias. No wonder, the Woyannie slaves and their hodam followers hate you too much.
You are one of the few Ethiopian heroes who knows how to make Woyannies cry laud for all Ethiopia to hear.
I urge again every Ethiopian to keep on supporting Elias and the Tegbar Foundation.
Ethiopians, you are the best and will do better in the future. The steps taken by ESFNA’s the few committee members is essential but not good enough yet.
There has been a lack professional collaborative of doing things in the ESFNA, and as a restult, the few Al Amoud’s agents and followers made a blunder in accepting the bloodmoney form the corrupt,scandalous,crook, stupid,and the looter that mafaia Dr.Sheikh.
When that mafia Sheikh has been a known anti-Ethiopia woyanaetplf agent and a looter, accepting money is like is not only untehical and immoral, it is being partners with a mafia sheikh and being against Ethiopians.
A. A complete and through investigation must be conducting on how the whole scandal started and caused chaois on nearly everything.
B. The backgrounf of those chief official members of the ESFNA must be reviewed and investigated.
C. A new accountable, responsible and professional commitee must be chosen and selected from among the best and assume the role of public severvice with greater integrity.
D. A letter of appology must be sent by the members who made this ourtages scandal at the back of Ethiopians to the entire global Ethiopian communities.
E. A letter must be sent to the corrupt and mafia the Sheikh that he must not dare doing the same thing in the future by telling him that he has nothing in common with the commandable Ethiopians whatsoever, and must also he refrain from trying spying on Ethiopians diaspora for which he shall taken responsibility with the possibility receiving a well-desrved punishment should he ignore the warning and the consequence of his action.
LATE IS BETTER THAN NEVER. Ato dawit and Ato fassil should know that an arab’s agent[ who was a gate keepr in arab}who came in ethiopia with millions od dollars , now became one of the billionaries in the world is the an enemy of ethiopia. He is the collabolator of weyanes , The money which he has inested in ethiopia is being snatched by TPLF from ethiopia’s national bank, TPLF had snatched 17bn ethio birrs from ethiopia’s national bank and gave to this bloody fandeya arabs to invest and steal ethiopia’s wealthy like gold, selite and others. sheraton addis belongs toTPLF also too. IT is ethiopia’s ppl property. so Ato DAWIT and Ato fassil should stand by their country and do their share in the struggle instead of saling their conscience for that arab’s thief. THANk for your positive move to correct mistakes,
It is a double, triple victory for ethiopians. A warning for this gready and moralless alamudi as he is not able to stay being masked with his money comitting crime in colaboration with weyane officials against our innocent people.
ESFNA Is a powerful organization and can be used as a poletical tool again. We can’t afford to take chances. Dismantle it and choose new ones and reorganize ESFNA.
Regards,
Look your fake meeting!!!
The ESFNA POSTED back Alamoudin’s ” thank you” message on thier website.
So boycoting is the only temporary action to defeat hodam’s like Eyaya and etal.
The following actions must be taken ASAP
1- Ayaaya, Sebsbe, Samuel have to rsign from their post if they indeed took the money without consulting the rest.
2- The ESFNA officials have to post their admitted mistake on their web, have to publish flyer and circulate, they have to transmit their part of the story on VOA and via other public radios.
3- The Sheik’s money, all of it, has to be donated to our starving people ASAP.
Yes,Yes,Yes!!! This is great news!!! We have to show the Woyane who we are!!!!
NOw folks, lets go to the game and have fun with ESFNA!!!
Great!!!Great!!!Great!!
Dear Elias, how are you? Here I want to ask you a question about what you have written about ESFANA above. Here you wrote that the ESFANA leaders have promised to jornaliats and web sites like ethiopian review that they will open the finnancial statement of the organiztion for the public and they also said that they have lifted the poster of the womenizer and drnker “sheik” in thier web site. However, the reality is the reverse. go and check the web site of ESFNA. why they didn’t remove thier appreciation about the hated sheik? why they removed the sheik picture in the stadium? As for me the reason why they didn’t remove the picture of alamody in their website indicates still they have the affection for the sheik. so please examine their hidden motive throughly and take actions as what you did before those “Asamoch or Hodamoch” fool us.
ethiopiachinin Ka hodamoch neketen entebekat.
Great job DAWIT and FASSIL It is a big relife for me when I read your news confrance and admiting the mistake of ESFNA. Good start admiting mitake. Taking money from alamudi is the same as taking money from woyanni. woyannis are killin Etiopians,giving our land for forigne countris and our enemys. in general they hate Ethiopia. alamudi is one of them and supporting woyanni in all possible way.His money is blood money.
TAgean the actin taken by ESFNA
Don’t fall to the trap of TPLF’s mafia leadership. They deliberately antagonize the Billioner Business Man with the opposition and Ethiopian people. We have to be proud of him, as Ethiopian and as person who overcame all odds to be the richest black man. Let us learn from his enterpranuership, and his wisdom of how he used the ‘windows’ of TPLF’s ‘investment hunger’ to creat jobs in Ethiopia and helping the poor, even if they are few, lets not forget he is a private investor( business man). Lets respect this gentleman and his Ethiopianess. If his mistakes are just working with the government – I don’t think that is strong argument. Being together does not necessarily mean being one. His association with politicians is a normal prerequisites to investment. I don’t know Shiek Mohammed Ala Mudin, but I appereciate his achievements as a humanbieng and I can imagine that he has love for his country and wants to benifit from her and benifit her also. TPLF is happy that – the dillusioned people in Ethiopia attack the Shiek, that is blessing for Meles and his groups, they controll him by scaring and sending letters of ‘defamations’ by their secret agents on the enternet to diecredit both the Ethiopian people and the
oppostion so as to woo this wonderful gentleman of great caliber and achievement.
I wish somebody would calm the Sheik to understand the true nature of TPLF’s survilliance machinery and all this
negative talks about the respectable Ethiopian is just manuplation of the political elit in power and has nothing to do with Ethiopian people and the oppositions.
Alamudin You are blessed and we want
our Ethiopia could give birth to Millions
like you are.
I suggesst any political discourse on the internet, should keep itself away from this kind of unhelpful personal attacks. That is not Ethiopian culture. Stop such rubish and close this ugly ‘paparatse’ about the person.