Expired, Decadent, and Violent: Abiy Ahmed has to be Removed Urgently!
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Tsegaye R Ararssa
)After the 5th of October, Abiy Ahmed's regime has expired. Literally.
The expiry of his tenure (his legally sanctioned term of office) was only preceded by a complete loss of political support among the vast majority of the people across the country. In Oromia, Tigray, Wolaita, and in all the areas where people sought, and still serk, self-rule and democratic election, he does not just lack popular support but exudes public anger. To these people, he is--and shall remain-- anathema.
In Oromia, there has never been a person who became as famous as Abiy Ahmed so fast only to become as infamous as he is today--again--so fast. Today, he is public enemy number 1.
Surely, when all this is over, Oromia wants Abiy to account for his atrocities. The nation hopes that he will, one day--hopefully soon--stand trial for his unspeakable crimes (if at all he comes out of the palace alive).
Most certainly, he can't escape responsibility, even long after he goes into the dustbin of history (for his crimes are not barred even by a statute of limitation).
His temporally brief tenure will be remembered, above all, as the time when the dignity of public office was utterly degraded by lies, deceptions, and grand corruption. For all the bigoted religious (at times, messianic) language used to invoke morality as a way of doing politics [which in itself is wrong!], the notion of ethical-moral integrity is rendered completely alien to his regime.
There seems to be no limit to the corruption, the embezzlement, the doling out of public resources (eg., land, bank loans, investment leases, permits, etc) for buying support or 'political clients' (in an intricate system of client-patron relationship). The cover ups of crimes, political assassinations, and brutal tortures were all funded by finances whose sources 'no one knows' or are obtained from criminal 'business' embedded within the regime. The lies, deception tactics, the corruption, the bribes, and the suppression of the public's truth points to the moral decadence of Abiy and his team.
As far as integrity needed for serving in a public office is concerned, they have decomposed, and they did so way before their tenure legally expired. The expiry of the term of parliamentary tenure only made it more complete.
So was the violence. Political assassinations, terror tactics by state security forces (such as burning houses, indiscriminate shootings and massacres, tortures, political rape, killing and giving the bodies of their victims to wild beasts, mass detentions, denial of access to health to political prisoners, etc etc) had become become the hallmark of Abiy's rule way before the 5th of October.
At the time of this writing, Abiy's regime is politically despised (by the public), legally expired, morally decadent, and psycho-physically violent.
In short, it has become a perfect criminal. And its criminality is total.
It's time for responsible constitutional bodies to take urgent action in order to control, remove, and punish this group of gangsters--and restore much needed peace and stability in the country.
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