This was how Sunshine Construction owner Samuel Tafesse, one of the richest men in Ethiopia, was received by Lalibela Restaurant in Virginia last Saturday. Samuel is a business partner and close friend of Meles Zenawi’s wife Azeb Mesfin, the richest woman in Africa.
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Folks,
Don’t be decieved by this false story. This is not a welcoming party for anyone. This video is Washington DC Unity Soccer Club’s celebration of victory at the 25th ESFNA tournament. DC Unity has been “the ugly duckling” of the five teams in that area every since its inception. Now, after languishing in second division for a long time and after good showings in the past 3 tournaments (excluding Dallas), the team won its first Division I championship. If you look closely, in the first part of the video you can see two trophies hoisted. Elias, don’t lose credibility by posting something that is not true!!!
Redeat: Why do you lie? I was there in person. When Samuel Tafesse came, they put chairs and tables on the dance stage for him and his entourage and the owner, Taye, was drooling all over the place, in a buttkissing frenzy along with the musicians. You all are hodams, including the soccer team that Samuel is sponsoring. Asafariwoch.
Shmeless people. AzeTZach Hulu. 10 million of our people are starving to death. And you are wining and dancing with this criminal HODAM ye-Woyane Kit-Lash. Ye-Woyane TeLaLaKi.
No wonder Woyanes and their supporters, who number only three (3) million, are ruling Ethiopia without any fear of confronting any kind of credible oppostion.
EWENTCHEWEN NAWW WOYANEWOCH — AMARA HODUN YEWODAL – SE’T ENA WUSKI KAGEGNE ENATUNEM YE-SHETAL EYALU YEMITRITUBIN. It is because of shmeless (ZER-ASEDABI) people like you.
MAY THE ALMIGHTY GOD DESTORY YOU ALL.
YE-ETHIOPIA AMLAK ZER-MANZERACHEHUN YATFAW.
#3, Ewnetu Ashebir,You are so sweet,you really are worried about the starved people.I felt your concern.If all the Ethiopian people had been thinking like you,the country would have been grouped under the list of developed countries.I share your value, buddy.Thank you.
Thank you ER samuel KE AZEB GARE HONO ETHIOPIAN EYATEFA NEWE YE LALIBEL BALEBETEM TAYE TERU HODAME NEWE. BE MELASY YEMENORE ENDET SAMUEL YETEBAL BANDA AMTETO.SPONCER YADERGAL.AYE HODEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Elias: This grand fenaly (wellcoming party for Weyanee Tycoon Samual by Lalibela Resturant happened on Sunday not friday.Anyway, it matter not what day of the week that Laibela reusturant entertain its Weeyanee Kaderay!). Guess what ,I was there when it happened . I did not know that lalibela resturant is hosting killer Weyanee Samual. I was there with a few friends to have some drink and to listen some good ole ethiopian music. Instade I was shawerd with anger , anger that I would want to be a part of Weyanee Celibration , anger that I did not pay my hard eraned money to see VIP Weyanee Kaderay dance with the Owener of Laibela resuturant!. If anybody reconized me from this video clip , I apoligize cencerly , believe me when I say that I did not know what was going on untill the last minute . But I will pomise you that I would never returen that resturant again,never!!!!!!
This man became rich by bribing the top people like Kasu Ilala, Meles, Zyad (ERA boss), and the likes. As a graduate in accounting, I was employed by him for about two years. He called me one day to his office to inform me not to fear any high ranking official because he has a means to convience them. One day, I saw him talking with one official as if they are friends. The irony thing was that they were drinking wine in the office. As an employer, I can tell you that he has never paid VAT. I doubt also if settles his tax arreras regularly. The man is awarded contracts without even finishing what he was given before. He is milking the resources of the poor. I am waiting for a day when he is told that it is over. If he reads this message, Samuel remember me very well. I want to tell him that I am now free and work for a NGO where transparency is high. No repeated call and no abuse.
First of all, Samuel the owner of Sunshine Construction is a hodam Gurage, who has sold his soul for money. He is one of few business owners who attended the TPLF Ginbot 20 celebration in Sheraton Addis, a few days after the killing of over 200 inocent citizins, and contributed a vast amount of money to Weyane. Samuel in a one of a few billionairs in Ethiopia at the moment, due to his loyality to Weyane. He is a man wich his fate is sealed with Weyane. He can only survive in Ethiopia if Weyane is in power. The entire population of at least Addis Abeba knows of who he is?, what he does? and how he supports the enemies of Ethiopia. Samuel has many private partnership deals with hight ranking weyane ministers, including meles zenawi and his wife. This indirectly puts blood in your hand.
Allthough the event in the video is to celebrate the wining of the ESFNA tournament, it still dosent change the fact that at a time when Weyane is cedeing land to Sudan, at a time when there are 6 million Ethiopians starved puposely, at a time when the entire population of Ethiopia can even aford to eat twice a day, Lalibela Restaurant had organised and is entertaining a well known and fully fledged Weyane, with blood on their hand. I though Lalibela Restaurant was owned by a patriotic Ethiopian? But i guess not, I guess the owner of Lalibela has betrayed the trust of the Ethiopia people living in VA, DC, MD. He is now sleeping with the devil Weyane. Shame on you LALIBELA RESTAURANT.
The ‘Tensae’ of Ethiopia is not very far, and the Ethiopian people will never forget BANDA’s like Sunshine construction’s Samuel and the Owner of Lalibela Restaurant in DC and Virginia.
The one thing patriotic Ethiopians can do at this time, is to BOYCOT the Lalibela restaurant, and make sur not to contribute your hard earned dollar to Weyane.
I think people are blaming others for their own miserable failure. Samuel, who is a gurage, was a royal and had a successful construction business way before azeb stepped here feet in addis.
eliase good job as usall
Mr. Elias so called “publisher” let me just tell you this in plane english. you are a lier and looser. you have an anger on rich pepole. YOU CAN”T RESIST HARD WORKING AND SUCCESSFULL PEOPLE. the reason of your anger is you been in the state the past 20 something years and there is no improvment in your life. ALL DO RESPECT, all you know is running a cable wire in peoples house . little sugestion if you beccome hopeless you have an easy acsess to cable wire just go and hung your self. YOU ARE MENACE TO THE SOCIETY. by the way, i was there with him in lalibela. the all cermony was the championship winng for DC UNITY SOCCER TEAM. wether you like or not a copule of years from now you will see him on FORBES megazine the richest people’s list then you will ZIPUP YOUR STINKY MOUTH .
LONG LIVE TO MR. SAMUEL !!! AM PROUD OF HIM
Redeat (weyane) if you hear well,they were mentioning samuel name in that dance.That tells you they were not singing about footboal team.As asheber said it.weyane understod very well the mentality of us that we have short memory.We are fast to forget and easy to kiss enemy as long us there is music,food and money in it.This kinds of people discourage any form of racistance by saying “man mongne alle keweyane gar yemigafetew”.This kinds of people not only bad,but they are devils good for nothing.
Sunshine Construction is not a Private Company. It is one of the “endowment” companies owned by TPLF. To fool the Ethiopian people, TPLF organizes its companies in a manner that enable them to seem like a private company. It gives them names that make them appear private comapnies. It assigns persons that are loyal to the party and controlled by the party as Excutive Directors and owners. Most of the contracts from the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Education have been awarded to Sunshine Construction by the order coming from the Prime Minister’s Office. Look at the list of “Woyane” owned companies, and you will find Sunshine Construction among them.
I been there and I heard taye argue with some one b/s of the gentleman was upset about what they are doing. I shared his feeling. i was not happy too! we went there to have fun and nobody told us they have that kind of program if they want to do they should let know the customers if the want to participate. This is not fair at all so for me I decided that last night to not go any more to lalibela restaurant. like taye selfish men not thinking and disrespecting his own customers and the people suffering by TPLF regime.
Ewnetu whatever..
Jelousy is not the way to fight hunger. We all including the now starving dream of being rich. Nothing wrong in it. The more rich people we have the more employemnt and the more chances we get to feed hungry mouths.
cheers
Is this gossip or polotics? People let’s attack real issues not characters.
Ethiopians, BOYCOT all WEYANE dogs,like Lailbel restaurant any body who does busines with the killers.Eli you are the man tell as more & more about the killers doges we Ethiopians who live in US will show them who realy we are.
ONE PEOPLE
ONE NATION
ONE ETHIOPIA FOR EVER !!
To know that Samuel is a Gurage is a news to me.
One thing i can’t understand is why is everybody saying all bad things about this man?????? what did he do?. me being in different (as i don’t know a lot about the guy) Just let me know 2 or 3 things that he had done bad then that will help me to make up my mind. I don’t know the man from Adam. all i know is he is a successfull business person, fair play to him, and admire him.
What’s wrong with Taye Wogderes (Lalibela Restaurant Owner) he become pro Woyane. As treasurer of ESFNA, he accept donation from Mohammed. As owner of the restaurant special music for former kibiad (kiray betoch) painter, zemen ametash billionar. I think the people leave around DC, specially the cab drivers has to boycott the restaurant like they did to Abonesh restaurant.
Enjoy your happiness till it last….One thing you don’t have to forget is whatever goes up must come down….
wey emmama Ethiopia. Those bastards weyane loyals are sucking your blood.
Glory to ER Intelegence Unit and its research department for showing this classified information to the public. They say, “le Habtam deha qitu hulu yachebechibal”. The DC soccer team are full of mucos heads including the lalibala owner to forget their poor brothren and sisters who have nothing to eat now.
Comon guys, we live in a land where food is thrown to the garbage in a daily basis in each household. So why kissing some stupid ass like this? Where is our pride?
ER Research Unit, keep doing the best job :)
Haile says:( # 9 above)
“I think people are blaming others for their own miserable failure. Samuel, who is a gurage, was a royal and had a successful construction business way before azeb stepped here feet in addis.”
Haile,
That is not true…….Samuel on his interview with one of the newspapers in Addis admitted that he only had around 13,000ETB when he started the construction business around 1980 Ethiopian calander………..
Senzero
No body will be rich at the expense of 4 millions hungery people.
Samuel Tafesse, ESFNA, Al Moudin, Legesse Zenawi, Azeb Mesfin are going to the hell, like Mengistu Haile Mariam, Fekre Sellasie Wogderes, Legesse Asfaw. Lehulum Geze Alew. Everything is in our and GOD’s hand.
God Bless Ethiopia.
this samuel sunshine who during Derg’s time was an ordinary paint man {kelem kebi} can’t be a billionaire just by working hard no matter what.This guy is well connected,has some gov’t backing,and well known to all that he is affiliated with Meles’s wife…Kassu Illalas wife…and may be who knows ppl who r sell outs in ethiopia.When 4 million ppl r starving to death this guy was having a huge party at his house with fireworks…booze..dance by the swimming pool…Imagine when half of addis is running out of water this guy has a sodore type of swimming pool at his house …what an irony for us ethiopians…well i wonder if he is going to enjoy life after the death of weyanne….His fortune will be cleaned by his wife and of course by the ethiopian ppl when we get our own legitimate gov’t…In the mean time let him enjoy lalibela va restaurant.
Good job Elias!!!
All you other pigs and woyane boot lickers who are lying about this mafia foot soldier being gurage burn in hell.
Sunshine Construction is aprt of the agame blood sucking
enterprise that is looting Ethiopia to the bare bones.
Put the woyane alekalakis out of business!!! Have the spine not to spend a single cent in LALIBELA.
YES, BOYCOT the Lalibela restaurant, and make sur not to contribute OUR hard earned dollar to Weyane.
aby this is jovani i like your feedback elias he westing his time in the website *elias ‘what you do for your country nothing(zero000)do something men?
ATO ELIAS youre a good liar. the dvd you posted on the website does not show anything bad that is not related to ethiopian politics/weyane. You want to talk about bad things about good people in the ethiopian community.We know well ato Taye and Ato Samuel they are hard workers.At esfna event ato Taye was D.C unity’s team leader and Ato samuel was sponsoring D.C unity.So after victory they celebrated together by music what is wrong with that.How is related to weyane please stop talking about ethiopians I know you are Ertierian.After this give a comment about youre uncle Esayas afwoerki. OUR COMMUNITY IS NOT READY TO RECIEVE YOUR LIE. TAYE AND SAMI KEEP UP THE GOOD JOB MOTE LESSHABIA AND LELIAS KEFELE.
You see the problem with us juice drinking, cake eating, ice cream licking, kitfo eating,beer drinking and materialistic generation is, we don’t have confidence in our selves.
We worship empty heads like Alamuddin and Samuel just because they have got the money. We belittle ourselves to make them feel bigger and more intelligent than us.
Samuel was a simple painter who lived in a two-room flat the derg built on bole road with his 4 kids some 20 years ago. He was shrewd enough to partner Azeb Mesfin and Abba Gebremedhin (the pappas) to expand his business empire. His mentor is the jemala, Alamuddin.
All businesses that are flourishing in Ethiopia have all links to the weyane regime. Not everybody can do clean business and prosper if you do not contribute to the weyane coffers in today’s Ethiopia. The son of the no. 1 weyane Sebhat Nega is running flower and other business and drives the latest american luxury car hammer, am not sure of the spelling of the brand name.
As much as we condemn people who are doing business with weyane, we should also celebrate the ones who are striving to do clean business in Ethiopia and in the diaspora.
Weyane is not doing business in Ethiopia alone, they are all over the world. They partner restaurant owners, money changers, airline agents, hairdressers etc. to penetrate the diaspora. So we have to open our eyes and ears to what is going on around us.
Boycott all the aleklaki asedabi business owners and places! There is nothing painful than being ignored in this life, ignore them, beka.
Gobez, let us also discipline ourselves by minimizing ‘asiresh mitchew’life style and save that money to use it for a more important national cause!
Our people are dying of starvation and similar causes, our country is in big labour ‘mit’
Endeeh! maan yingeren? Hulgize hod molto chifera yibka. Yeweyane mesakia anhun enji gobez. History teaches us that all freedom fighters who won their freedom and independence did not live the kind of lifestyles we are now living. If we want to free ourselves and our country from weyane regime let us do the following
The Ethiopian New Year is just around the corner. Let us observe the day by putting aside the money that is meant for kito, beer and chifera on the eve and sending or giving the money to the Ethiopian opposition party or movement of your choice. You will see the kind of satisfaction you will get by doing that. Not everybody is required to go to the war front to topple the illegitimate fascist regime in our country. The little things that each of us will do will go a long way in bringing change. Let us start doing that now!!
Lastly, thank you Elias for the video.
Good luck to all of us and stand up and be counted to save Emama Ethiopia!
‘Egezehooooooo’ i don’t have word more than this :), for those most funny comment’s,… ” BOYCOT” ? kkkkkk
don’t waste your time with these bandas who are now the majoirty thanks to Meles – he is sending them over in all shapes and colors – they come as political refugees to work for the banda – they join opposition groups and ask for recommendation which the so called Kinijit DC the Berhanu Mewas charge $150.00 they don’t who applies. As for SUNSHINE constructions – It is one of the business ventures of the TPLF gang the person is just a cover –
Senzero,
Why do we have to lie to make a cheap shot? He was a very rich man in 1990 owning a big house in Bole area and a construction company. I am telling you something I know for sure. btw he was one of the biggest contributors of the construction of Bole Medhanialem church since the early 90s.
I am still looking for the royal treatment. After all, if needs needs a royal treatment, Lalibela is not the place to do. Redet is right, it was a celebration of the champions. Just look and hear carefully. The name called are the names of players and founders of the team, Unityoccer team. If you have a better video card, you can see the playres. A better sound card als let you hears names of the coach, Mulugeta W/Yes, Zerihun, Taye..etc
Boycotting business of hard working people is a struggle of yesterday: fruiless…..if you still want boycott Lalibela, go ahead try, ain’t nobody will follow you.
Taye Wogderes (the owner of Lalibela) is a true Ethiopian who loves his country and help a lot of Ethiopian heroes. People who played for our national team but became very poor, were helped by Taye. Players like Mulugeta Berrhane, Mulualem Ejigu, Engdawork Tariku (Sebeta), Mulugeta Kebede were all forgotten until Taye brought them here and help them to help themselves.
Wonderful Samuel keep it up you good work Let others talk. Like Elias
Ato Elias
I believe Ethiopia need successful businessman like Ato Samuel. We need to encourage our business people to contribute for the country. This person has over 6000 employees. If you calculate times by 5 he is supporting 30000 people under his roof. He is contributing more than you who are writing this article and misleading people telling wrong information . When I read your article your credibility is getting down day to day. It’s not a big deal he is in an Ethiopian restaurant. From your article I understood most of the time you are against the Ethiopian businessman who is contributing for the country and you are trying to associate with wyenie. Don’t get me wrong I don’t like the current government policy but life has to move on. Abby
Yichala what are you talking about? “Don’t get me wrong I don’t like the current government policy but life has to move on.” what? you are here eating kitfo and drinking beer when people in Ethiopia are starving with weyane made hunger.I can tell you don’t care like some one commented you might be one of those who would sale their mom for blood money ,go back to your deep sleep.
Mechale says: Is this gossip or polotics? People let’s attack real issues not characters.
Mecchale, enlighten us. Tell us what you know about the characters, integrity, honesty of these people you appear to defend.
Also tell us please what you think the “real issues” we should attach are.
wow as usual some of us …..still cannot resist knowing or hearing about someone who work hard and become rich.i know mr. samuel has been a very hard worker and through time he became one of the richest people in Ethiopia and i have no doubt he will be at forbes as one of my friend said.So stop the rumor and try to work hard and appreciate.
Other thing i read one of the person who comment,” this guy was having a huge party at his house with fireworks…booze..dance by the swimming pool…Imagine when half of addis is running out of water this guy has a sodore type of swimming pool at his house …what an irony for us ethiopians…” wow most of then spend what we have in really very silly things parting ,credit and the like ,so don’t you know still there are people who start when we do that.atleast he helped a lot of people by creating a job ..there are about 10,000 employees under him so don’t you think he is doing his part already. is any of you ask yourself ,did i contribut even 10 dollar for this people ,did you pay a tution for one student in Ethiopia which you can afford.
So please before you enter into blame game ,atleast appreciate what he is doing…..personally i respect and admire him and i don’t think treating him as a royal if (there is any)isnot to much…..rememeber if we get the oppportunity we all know how we react if we meet one of the celebrities that do nothing for our people.
God bless him and all of us
God bless our Ethiopia
good job elias keep it up