A court in Arba Minch, Ethiopia, sentenced Ato Assefa Chabo, former head of the Pubic Organization Affairs “to 16 years prison terms starting from the day of his arrest,” a government media reported today.

The court also handed down ten year imprisonment on the former Deputy Administrator of the Gamo-Gofa province, Captain Paulos Bogale and the Gamo-Gofa province Special Police Force Commander, Captain Gebremikael Gebremariam.