Members of the controversial Kinijit International Council (K.I.C.) held a meeting yesterday to discuss their group’s status after receiving a letter from the main leadership in Addis Ababa informing them that it is taking back the political leadership of the party.
The 23-member K.I.C. had 17 active members. Out of those 12 were present at the meeting. Some of them said that the K.I.C. must now dissolve itself as required in the instruction that came from the main leadership.
But with Dr Taye Woldesemayat’s insistence that Kinijit chairman Ato Hailu Shawel wants the K.I.C. to continue as a support group, the majority of those who were present voted against disollving it.
There is also a press conference with the Kinijit North America auditor Ato Tesfaye Asmamaw tonight. Reportedly, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has launched an investigation into the financial impropriety by the Shaleqa Yoseph group.