Millionaire businessman Solomon Bekele seems to have ran out of patience with Ato Hailu Shawel and the crooks he has surrounded himself with. He is now ready to go on the air waves to inform the public what the Shaleqa group is about.
Ato Solomon is a close friend of Kinijit chairman Hailu Shawel. When Ato Hailu started to disregard Kinijit leadership’s decisions in order to protect the corrupt Shaleqa group, Ato Solomon became worried that Hailu Shawel’s name will be tarnished. So as a friend he tried to convince him to distance himself from the Shaleqa group (Yoseph Yazew, Moges Brook and their crooked friends).
Solomon Bekele has also worked hard to persuade Ato Hailu to join the Kinijit delegation that is currently visiting the U.S. But things got too complicated when Shaleqa Yoseph invited (hired) the former chairman of Ethiopian Teachers Association (ETA), Dr Taye Woldesemayat, to join him. Dr Taye has recently been fired by the ETA for misappropriating the association’s funds, among other misconducts.
The unemployed Taye has enthusiastically jumped into the Kinijit internal dispute on the side of the Shaleqa group backed by the Iyasu Alemayehu wing of the EPRP leadership and its media. Iyasu Alemayehu is a top leader of EPRP and son-in-law of the Woyanne-installed President Girma Woldegiorgis.
The rest, as you all know, is history.
This week, after several elders and long-time friends of Ato Hailu have failed to persuade him to sit down and talk with the Kinijit delegation, Solomon Bekele has decided to end his effort and take the matter to the public. On Saturday, Ato Solomon will be interviewed by Addis Dimts Radio.
What individuals like Ato Solomon, who had tried to persuade Ato Hailu to reconcile his differences with the executive committee, have failed to see is that Ato Hailu is being blackmailed by the Shaleqa group. Shaleqa Yoseph has let it be known that if he goes down, Hailu Shawel will also go down over the corruption issue. If a thorough investigation is conducted, Ato Hailu himself MAY BE implicated in Kinijit’s missing funds, according to ER sources.
Regarding the EPRP, the ER Intelligence Unit (EIU) has discovered that not every one in the EPRP leadership approves of what some of the leaders are doing to exacerbate the problem inside Kinijit through their agent Taye. A heated debate is currently underway on this matter within the EPRP hierarchy. The person who is spearheading the attack on Kinijit is Ato Iyasu Alemayehu (nom de guerre Hama Tuma) over the objection of other EPRP leaders. It is also Iyasu Alemayehu who is feeding insidious misinformation about Kinijit to the Indian Ocean Newsletter.
UPDATE
After this article is posted, Ato Solomon Bekele spoke with Ethiopian Review. He said that he did not quit. When asked to elaborate, Ato Solomon said the only thing he wants said for now is that he did not quit. He also said that he will give interviews on this matter when he feels that the time is right.
ER believes that not only Ato Solomon, but every one who is involved in trying to persuade Ato Hailu to sit down and talk with the Kinijit leadership have the obligation to inform the public about their effort and the conclusion they reached.