EPRDF/aka/Eden,
Do you think it's fair that thousands of Ethiopian college graduates are unable to find jobs and cannot even afford to buy a newspaper that they have to rent one from street vendors, while another Adwa-born graduate can become an overnight millionaire straight out of college, without having to lift a finger?

Dear Rev,

in my view these idle men are the creators of their own misery, they hate to work with their hands, ythey prefer an office job, that is at the root of their problem. Why in the hell did they waste their time in college knowing they could never get jobs, how many political scientists can Ethiopia employ? Why didn't they go to vocational school which would have taught them to work with their hands. Then they would be productive today rather than wasting their days in idleness. This is a lost generation that doesn't even know the true value of the soil.

Look at the Eritrean farm workers who actually like to work with their hand, that is true dignity.

EPRDF/aka/Eden,
Do you think it's fair that thousands of Ethiopian college graduates are unable to find jobs and cannot even afford to buy a newspaper that they have to rent one from street vendors, while another Adwa-born graduate can become an overnight millionaire straight out of college, without having to lift a finger?

Dear Rev,

in my view these idle men are the creators of their own misery, they hate to work with their hands, ythey prefer an office job, that is at the root of their problem. Why in the hell did they waste their time in college knowing they could never get jobs, how many political scientists can Ethiopia employ? Why didn't they go to vocational school which would have taught them to work with their hands. Then they would be productive today rather than wasting their days in idleness. This is a lost generation that doesn't even know the true value of the soil.

Look at the Eritrean farm workers who actually like to work with their hand, that is true dignity.

I don't think the students were able to make a judgment about what the future holds for them before enrolling in college. Unfortunately, fate always has a different plan for people than they have for themselves, and the graduates met their fate on the receiving end of Woyane's apartheid policy that favors the Adwans over the rest of Ethiopians. The prevalent discrimination against the overwhelming majority of students in the country would have been unthinkable under normal circumstances, with a responsible government and leadership. In my humble opinion, afraid to call a spade a spade and blaming the victims is the same as validating the injustices suffered by the victims.

Ayte Eden/aka/EPRDF,
Do you have any more videos to be reviewed before you lock this thread ?

Eden/aka/EPRDF,

How do you explain that the Adwa-born Kinfu Dagnew, a Brigadier General in your woyane's mercenary army, is also the owner of Metal & Engineering Corporation (MetEC) ?

Is it by coincidence that all major contracts are awarded to selected companies owned by people from Adwa ? I think I already know the answer to that. If a company is not owned by Al-amoudi, it is most likely owned by someone from Adwa.


Ethiopia: Metal & Eng Corp Subcontracts Major National Works

By Mahlet Mesfin, 25 March 2012

Metal & Engineering Corporation (MetEC) is trying to ease its burden in steering the nation's drive to an industrial economy by subcontracting various projects to domestic construction firms, although three of the 20 selected turned down offers.

MetEC is a state owned military industrial complex established a year ago and entrusted with several government projects worth billions of Birr. Run by a high ranking military officer, Brigadier general Kinfu Dagnew, its projects include the electromechanical work of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and erecting turnkey fertiliser and sugar plants, the latter numbering 10, in various parts of the country.


Abay Tsehaye (right), director general of Sugar Corporation under the ministerial portfolio; and Brigadier general Kinfu Dagnew, managing director of Metal and Engineering Corporation (MetEC); sign the contractual agreement for the latter to construct three sugar factories


In what the Corporation described as a move intended to encourage local contractors, invitations were sent to all 82 contractors with Grade One licenses in the country four months ago, to participate in its projects, according to anonymous sources at the Corporation. Of the 82 companies, seven were selected, including Sur Construction Plc, Sunshine Construction Plc, and Teklebrehan Ambaye Construction Plc, forming a consortium that is hoped will advise the Corporation on the processes.

SUR Construction P.L.C owned by the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT)
Sunshine construction plc owned by Samuel Tafesse partnered with Azeb Mesfin,
Teklebrehan Ambaye Construction Plc, owned by the the guy from Adwa
GELILLA INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, owned by Ato Gebrehiwot Gebrezabiher from Adwa
Zamra Construction PIC, owned by another guy from Adwa


Out of the 82, only 44 responded, delivering their company profiles to MetEC. These 44 were evaluated with a menu of 15 requirements, including track record, audit reports, number and type of projects at hand, machinery, and human resources.

Less than half scored 70 or above during evaluation for technical qualifications, according to sources at the Corporation.

Teklebrehan Ambaye, Sunshine, Sur, and Zamra Construction were, thus, selected to undertake projects on their own, while Equatorial Engineering, Radar Engineering, Deta Engineering, Sahle Mariam Construction, and Yoteck Construction were listed as having to share projects among themselves.

However, Sunshine, Giga, and Sur relinquished their share of the projects, citing overload, claiming to be tied up with various projects already at hand, while Zamra chose to take projects which it could do in partnership with others.

Some of those selected accepted the projects and signed contract agreements. These included Teklebrehan Ambaye Construction (TbAC), a domestic company that has emerged over the past two decades and has built several landmarks across the nation.

Registered with a capital of two billion Br, the construction firm built and owns Edna Mall and is currently undertaking the tallest branch office of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) on Equatorial Guinea Street. It is also building a stadium in the town of Mekele, the capital of Tigray Regional State, 780km north of Addis Abeba.

MetEC signed a 792 million Br contract with TbAC on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, for the earthwork of Yayu One, covering 60,000sqm. Yayu, 600km west of the capital in Illubabor Zone, Oromia Regional State, is one of the two fertiliser factories that the federal government wants built at a total cost of 2.8 billion Br. The second factory is planned for erection in West Wellega Zone of the same region.

The factory in Yayu could produce 300,000tn of urea, 20,000tn of methanol, and 90MW of electricity from the vast deposits of coal in the area, earlier studies projected.

The projects given to domestic firms include earthwork for the fertiliser factory in Yayu, Illubabor Zone, Oromia Regional State, where five contractors, including TbAC and NKH, will participate. TbAC will do the excavating and covering of the project site with concrete, which will have to be completed within seven months.

"We are going to level ground of up to 24 metres in height," Seifu Ambaye, deputy general manager of the company, told Fortune.

Nonetheless, the deadline set for the completion of the project has been a source of worry for the company.

"We do not have any experience with this kind of work," Seifu told Fortune. "We are building contractors; it is going to be tough."

Such were the concerns echoed by managers of Giga, which declined to participate. The project is new and unique, and it demands new forms of contract administration, human resources management, and mobilisation of machinery, an engineer at Giga told Fortune.

Giga Construction Plc was originally established in 2000, but recapitalised in April 2005 with 1.6 million Br that was equally contributed by Gebrehiwot Girmay, also a managing director, and Meheret Getachew, a shareholder.

"It is such a big national project that we do not want to mess it up," he told Fortune. "We have many projects at hand."

The 10 sugar factories to be constructed nationwide include six in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples (SNNP) Regional State, and one each in Afar, Amahra, Oromia, and Tigray regional states. Four contractors have been hired to do the earthworks for Beles in Amhara, six for similar projects in Omo, SNNP, while Sur has been subcontracted for the Walquite Factory in Tigray, according to sources.

SIMILAR TO MY GRAND PA, GRAND MA, MY DAD AND MOM AND ALL MY ANSECESTORS, I AM WOYANE TO BONE! GOD BLESSES THE SELFLESS WOYANE WHO’S ENDURING VISION IS ETERNAL

PEOPLE DIE THE PROGRESSIVE, DEMOCRATIC, INLUSIVE AND PRINCIPLED CHARACTERS OF WOYANE ENDURES!
IF YOU CAN NOT BE ONE - LIVE BY WISHING!

SIMILAR TO MY GRAND PA, GRAND MA, MY DAD AND MOM AND ALL MY ANSECESTORS, I AM WOYANE TO BONE! GOD BLESSES THE SELFLESS WOYANE WHO’S ENDURING VISION IS ETERNAL

PEOPLE DIE THE PROGRESSIVE, DEMOCRATIC, INLUSIVE AND PRINCIPLED CHARACTERS OF WOYANE ENDURES!
IF YOU CAN NOT BE ONE - LIVE BY WISHING!

ጭፍራ ወያነ፡ ብውፁዓት ተሓብሒቡ ዓብዩን ሥልጣን ሒዙን ንውፁዓት ሕዝቢ ትግራይ ዝጠለመ ሥርዓት እዩ።

Ayte Eden/aka/EPRDF,
What did you do with the $11.7 billion dollars ?


"The People of Ethiopia are Being Bled Dry," says Economist Sarah Freitas



Ethiopia and 2011 Global Financial Integrity Report

The Washington, D.C.-based organization, Global Financial Integrity (GFI), released on 15 December 2011 its report on Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries over the Decade Ending 2009.

The co-authors of this carefully designed study were Dev Kar and Sarah Freitas. You can access the report on the GFI website at http://www.gfintegrity.org. In a separate statement dated 5 December, which you can access atwww.financialtaskforce.org/2011/12/05/illegal-ethiopian-capital-flight-skyrocketed-in-2009-to-us3-26-billion/ , co-author Sarah Freitas singled out Ethiopia for criticism. The piece by Freitas states:

“Ethiopia, which has a per capita GDP of just US$365, lost US$11.7 billion to illicit financial outflows between 2000 and 2009. More worrying is that the study shows Ethiopia’s losses due to illicit capital flows are on the rise. In 2009, illicit money leaving the economy totaled US$3.26 billion, which is double the amount in each of the two previous years.”

The commentary by Freitas concludes that “the people of Ethiopia are being bled dry” and notes that Ethiopia is a country “plagued by famine.”

I agree with Freitas that the increase in 2009 in Ethiopian illicit financial outflows is a serious problem that the government of Ethiopia must confront. There is no excuse for this. According to the GFI report, Ethiopia’s cumulative (2000-2009) illicit financial flows(IFF) based on conservative estimates were $7.9 billion. Ethiopia’s cumulative (2000-2009) IFF based on high-end estimates was $11.7 billion. Using the conservative GFI estimates, Ethiopia AVERAGED for the years 2000-2009 $794 million annually in IFF.

FREE KEDIR AMAN ! FREE KEDIR AMAN !

I don't think the students were able to make a judgment about what the future holds for them before enrolling in college. Unfortunately, fate always has a different plan for people than they have for themselves, and the graduates met their fate on the receiving end of Woyane's apartheid policy that favors the Adwans over the rest of Ethiopians. The prevalent discrimination against the overwhelming majority of students in the country would have been unthinkable under normal circumstances, with a responsible government and leadership. In my humble opinion, afraid to call a spade a spade and blaming the victims is the same as validating the injustices suffered by the victims.

Dear Rev,

Unfortunately this ethnic discrimation by Woyane is nothing new, except in Derg and imperial times the discremination was not according to tribe, but according to your loyalty to the regime. I am old enough to remember the resentment of the AA University graduates during Janhoy times who were full of rage for being kept out of the loop. That was actually one of the causes of the revolution. During Derg times if you were unwilling to become a member of ኢሰፓአኮ no job for you. So in all fairness discimination is nothing new, except that now it has reached an unreasonable magnitude.

On the other hand both during imperial times and Derg times, those youngsters who were dignified and wise enough to seek vocational training never had to beg for a job. Every ትግባረ እድ graduate either had an instant employment or started his own business. It is the same today, in Ethiopia there is no unemployed carpenter, bricklayer, metal worker or auto mechanic. They all have secure and well paying jobs. The ones who are unemployed are the fools who wasted their years on useless academic pursuits such as political science, history and other useless tripe you can teach yourself by reading the appropriate books you can download off the internet.

I understand you a Tigrayan, so perhaps you may not have had a lot of experience with the degraded thinking of the parents of Addis Ababa who would be horrified if their son aspires to become a farmer, or desires to be a day laborer to earn extra cash when school's out. The people of Addis Ababa have been infected with some kind of virus that makes them despise manual labor. They have no idea of how ennobling it can be to the soul to work with your hand and to sweat from labor.

Those youngsters who rent newspapers seeking nonexistent office jobs would be horrified if they were to be offered jobs to clean the city. They would think of it below their dignity to get their hands dirty.

I AM WOYANE TO BONE!

One the day Woyane is smashed to pieces, imagine what will happen to your bones.