Skip to content

Meles sacks head of Somali regional state

Posted on , Updated on by Elias Kifle

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIIOPIA (APA) – Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship in Ethiopia has sacked the president of the Somali regional state, which is one of the country’s nine regional states bordering Somalia, APA learns here Sunday.

Abdulahi Hassen was fired by the regional governing party (Somali People’s Democratic Party) after it held an evaluation forum on regional good governance and development activities.

The sacking of the president comes on the heels of the recent explosion in the regional state capital of Jijiga where four people were killed while another ten sustained serious injuries.

According to Ethiopian state television, the regional president was fired from his post for failing to undertake what the people of the region needed in terms of good governance, development and fighting insurgents in the region.

President Hassen himself was injured in an explosion two years ago by insurgents, which the government claims to have been carried out by the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF).

Since the ONLF killed 65 Ethiopians and nine Chinese oil workers last year April, the government has undertaken a crack down against the movement, which claims to be fighting for the secession of the Somali region of Ethiopia.

The Somali region, one of the nine regional states of Ethiopia, is inhabited mainly by ethnic Somalis, which is also bordering Somalia.

The regional president was on his post for the past four years, so far no one has been appointed to replace him.

2 thoughts on “Meles sacks head of Somali regional state”

  1. Why did he do that? Was the president of the the region an accomplice of the separatist group, the so-called Ogaden Liberation Front? If he were then the measure is correct.If not the administrative measure taken by the Jackboot dictator, Meles Zenawi,is wrong.
    Though I support the war being made against this separatist group, a stooge of anti-Ethiopian forces,the dictator is duty bound to make ” Carrot and Stick Policy” to solve the problem in Ogaden region.After all Meles Zenawi is the architect of Separatism.He fought for the freedom of Eritrea and his region, Tigrai, which was good, the net result is freedom and equality…Why not the same for Ogaden and Oromia within the frame work of national unity?
    Have a good day falks!

Leave a Reply