Meles Zenawi and his Woyanne junta in Ethiopia have been flooding the state-controlled media with ‘news’ and discussion about the so-called “renaissance dam” (Hidasse Gidib) and is asking Ethiopians to contribute money, some times forcibly confiscating one-month salary from employees. The junta has also been sending delegates to Diaspora to sell government bonds to “finance” the project. Since almost every thing that comes out of the Woyanne progapanda machine headed by Bereket Simon is a lie, to find out if there is really a construction project going, Ethiopian Review recently dispatched members of its Intelligence Unit to Benishangul-Gumuz, western Ethiopia.
Woyannes say that the construction started 2 and half years ago in secrecy under the name “Project X.” In April 2011, they renamed the project “Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.” In the previous month, March 2011, Salini Construttori was awarded $4.8 billion to construct the dam. However, as the photos below show, two and half years after the construction is said to have started, there is no major activity at the site where Woyanne media is telling us that the dam is being constructed 24/7. The few hundred construction workers spend most of their day chewing khat and fighting off mosquitoes. They get busy only when visitors and camera crew arrive. No Wonder Egyptians are quite. (Photo: Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit)
