OPDO says NO to TPLF’s interference, for the second time in post Meles Ethiopia
By Jawar Mohammed
September 26, 2012 (Gulele Post) – The OPDO central committee that met this past week failed to elect a replacement for its ailing party chairman and president of Oromia, Alemayehu Atomsa. It is the second time that such an attempt to elect a new leader has been adjourned without success. During the first round that took place mid-August in Adama, the TPLF attempted to impose Aster Mamo. But she failed to garner even one third of the vote. The boiling confrontation was halted when Meles’ death was announced.
Still, the TPLF brought Mamo to sit in the EPRDF executive committee meeting with the aim of boosting her stature, even though she is not one of the nine that represent the OPDO in the 36 member EPRDF executive committee. Her and Workneh Gebeyehu’s ( Federal police commissioner) presence at that meeting without been officially delegated by OPDO , was seen as a direct affront to the leadership for their resistance two weeks earlier. The TPLF has often masterminded who could represent the OPDO in the coalition, but never has directly promoted someone to the EPRDF CC without at least symbolic and official endorsement by the parent party. Therefore, this blatant act was seen as deeply offensive, even by those in the OPDO who held reconciliatory tone towards the TPLF during the previous meeting in Adama.
The attack on the OPDO was intensified during the runup to the election to fill the seats vacated by Meles. Bereket Simon’s office purposely spread rumors alleging that the OPDO had been withholding Hailemariam’s appointment, while the truth was that the OPDO raised no objection because they were quite certain that appointment of Hailemariam Desalegn and Demeke Mekonnen was a done deal, as it has been a plan in place since 2010. Moreover, the TPLF men began encouraging selected individuals, particularly Kuma, to compete against Hailemariam – which is contrary to the OPDO’s collective decision to stay out. Having convinced members of the rest of the coalition to vote for the two, the TPLF was setting up the OPDO for sure defeat and the humiliation of its key leaders (the EPRDF CC is made up of 180 members, therefore even had all of the OPDO voted in favour of their candidate and won over some sympathizers from other parties, they would still have been outvoted).
Nevertheless, after Kuma was forced to withdraw due to intense protest by the OPDO, Azeb Mesfin , Meles’ widow, suddenly nominated Sufian Ahmed, who had no clue what was happening. Although Bereket Simon refrained from publicly naming the third candidate that lost to Hailemariam and Demeke, he immediately ‘leaked’ it to his friends, who announced to the world that Sufian was the loser with a mere five votes out of 180.
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Mormiin itti fufuun suta sutaas haa ta’u ni dhufa. Kan ta’u qabu, WBO akn gargaaranis haa ta’u Qerroo kan jabeessaa jirus haa ta’u, maalif Kumaa Damaqasaa achi keessa hin baasne naaf galu dide. Kan saboontoota irratti dhibbaa godhan tarkaanfin jalqabamu qaba, kesattu kan Finfine jiran. Humni namaa ramaduutu rakkise???. OPDOn akka lukaan dhaabattu hojatamu qaba. Yeroo murasaa kessatti kuni hojatamee halgaatti gargalu ni danda’ama. Halagaa qofaa xiyyefachuun sirri miti. Kan halgaaf saboontoota kennu baadiyaa Oromiyaadha kessaa qofaa kaasun gahaa miti. Finfinnee kan jiranis saganataa guddaan itti adeemu barbaachisaadha. Inumti TPLF tajaajilu kan rifatus adeemsa isas kan sirressu yoo kessa kaasan qofaadha.
Karaa dhugaa yoo ta’ee warraa Oromootu warraa tigrootaaf harkaa duuban keessaa seenani namaa Oromootif tolaa filuu qabuu malee tigrooni xiqqoon Oromoo keessa seenani namaa isaanif halkaniif guyyaa garbumaadhaan daaddisuu filachuu hinqaban matumaa. Ojjiin isaanii yerroo hundaa tuffii irratti ijaarama. Mirga ofiitif mormuun ojii dhalotaa namummaati.
Miseensi DhDUO/OPDO duri, Dr Nagasoo Gidada,
dhab’ni isaa durani kun waggoota 21:f Wayanneen, Waa- hinyaanneen ykn Ayyaanneen
iti rakkatee gudisuu haa yaaltuyuu malee, ammallee akka da’imurra tar’kanfatee ka’ee deemu hindandeenyeetu yeroo dubbatu “DhDUO keessa biyyaa bulchuuf kaan ga’ee hinjirru” jeedhe radio sagalee Ameerika saganta afaan Oromoorrati.
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Yeroo ammaa kana Oromoon hundumtuu Oromummudhaan harka walirra qabuu malaa malee ololaa wal irratti oofuun tokkumaa Saba oromotiif gatii tokko iyu hinqabuu. Kanaaf hundumtuu mataisaan jijjiruu qabu.
Yero amatana Oromo kanibakabuu.u qabu oromotahuqaba
Yaa Warra OPDO,
Durumaayyuu dubbin “Waraabessatu Harree firoomfatee Gaangee nyaatee booda immoo hareeu Irbaattaaf godhate jedhan. Harreen garuu nan oole seetee gowwoomtee.
Ammas yaa jara keenyaa diinni Uummata Oromoo fi Jaarmolee isaaf safuu dhabe, biyya Itiophia jedhamu keessatti Lammiin Oromoo iddoo inni itti Kabajamee hin beekne keessatti OPDOn iddoo argataan soba. (Abyssinians. Always look for and turn to Oromos for help and to use them as safe haven only and only if/when they are in severe political and other crises, and also when they want access to divide, penetrate Oromo mind and exploit the human and material wealth/resources of Oromo nation. That was what the Atses’, the derge’s and the Tigreans’ regimes did and are doing.Therefore, it is no wonder that OPDO is beginning to feel pain by facing the historically verified reality of anything Purely Oromo VS Abyssinian/Ethiopian. Hence, we say Better late than never to OPDO. And advise to make informed historic decision to be for and with the Oromos and part of the struggle for liberation. OPDO, never compromise the interest and will of your constituents. Good luck.) Uummata keessanitti amanaa, ofitti amanaa, dhugaaf falmaa du’aa mallee halgaaf gabroomaa, ergamma, garuu lammii fi seenaan abaaramaa hin darbinaa. Waaqnii fi Uummanni Oromoo isin haa gargaaru.
Abdi
OPDOs are like Kids TOYS. Kids like toys to play with it, humilate it, make it dirty and finally wenn it has no use , throw it to the garbage.
This time the oromo people must rally behind OPDO and change the organization into a liberation front. Let’s manipulate and use it. It is time to counter act what TPLF did 21 years ago to the Oromo people when formed a fake political organization for us.
Yaa obboloota kiyya, waanni isin jettan kun hundinu heddu bayeessa. Garuu, OPDO jedhamee maqaa ilmaan Oromootin socha’ee Tigroota gargaaraa jiru aangorra taa’us waan ofitti hin amanneefuu bu’aa buusa jedheen hin amanu. Otoo OPDO-n dhuguma Oromoof dhaabatee ilmaan Oromoo hardha mana hidhaati dhumtu akka hiikkattu taasisuuyyu. Toftaafi tarsiimoo jijjiiraniiti rakkina jiruuf fala isaa barbaaduyyu ture. Obboo Mallas Zenawii waan Tigrootan wal dhabeef, waan Oromoota amanuu dadhabeef yookaa tuffateef yeroo sana yeroodhaf H/maram Dasalany ofitti sikse. Obbo Barakat Simoonis toftaadhuma/ tarsiimodhuma sanatti fayyadameeti Oromoota tuffatee muummicha isa taasise. Maalif H/mariam mummicha ta’e jechuuf otoo hin taane, maalif Oromoon jala kaattuu taatee hafte? Kun tokkummaa dhabuudha. Sodaattuu tawuudha.
Rakkina jiru kana furuuf, yoo dhuguma namni hundinuu waan bilisummaa Oromootif dhaabatu taye OPDO, ABO, kongreessii, federaalii isa jedhan dhiisanii maqaa uummata Oromootin tokko ta’anii filmaata dhufu irratti dhorgomuudha.
Yaada kee ni kabajina. Garu, karaa nagaa (peaceful struggle) yoo ta’e biyyaa gahaa qabna. Jabeesudha. OPDOs mormitootis humna isaani akka itti fayadaman hojachuudha. Kan isaan kessa taa’e saboontota irratti dhibbaa godhu, akka saboontoni fulduratti hin dhufne godhan kan akka Kumaa kessaa kaasun barbaachisaadha. Dhaba TPLF nan kuffisa jedhee morni tattaafatu namoota akkanaa baleessan malee OPDO kessatti jijjramni kan dhufu miti. Anaaf, qerroon abdi oromooti kan jennu taanaan namoota akkanaa kessaaa kaasan malee abdii ta’un hin jiru. Kumaa kessa kaasu hin dandeeenyu taanan akkamitti humna waraanna TPLF kufisu yaadna???. OPDO gati hin qabu jenne tufachu dhisne bubuleess haa ta’e TPLF jala dhaabachuu kan oolu miti. Dhaabilee hidhannoon socho’an biyyatti galchine karaa nagaa yaa dorgoman kan jettu kun-yaada akkanaa irraa osoo of fageesite gaaridha. Namni biyyatti galu fedhu kana ofuuf yaalu danda’a. Yaada oromoo jabeessu osoo hin ta’in yaada humna oromoo dadhabsisutti kuni.
No question that the genuine Oromo in OPDO can be an alterntive force to lead us to the bilisummaa, for which we are still striving. This news of Oromo movement in OPDO is good for neither DiGa nor FiGo. DiGa is simply Diina Gamna, a Woyane cadre, who is payed and doing his job of antagonizing the Oromo liberation camp for the sake of his own advantage, whereas FiGo is Fira Gowwaa, a fool Oromo, doing the same job of Woyane without any payment.
When we look at the authors and commentators in the Oromo websites, we just do observe two groups of Oromo nationalists: the ANTAGONIZERS and the INTEGRATORS. The antagonizers do pray the mantra of polarizing the Oromo liberation forces presenting such Oromo nationals as if they are irreconcilable enemies being divided into two camps: pro-union and pro-independence. Usually the antagonizers cry as if the pro-union Oromo are collaborators to the Abyssinian camp. On the other hand, the integrators do see the two post-bilisummaa Oromo goals (independence/walabummaa and union/walfaanummaa) of the Oromo people as two sides of the same coin (two sides of bilisummaa). They try to assert that both the pro-independence and the pro-union Oromo nationalists are de facto pro-bilisummaa (freedom fighters), who do have two reconcilable alternative objectives.
As we see, Woyane foot soldiers do camouflage as pro-independent Oromo and curse the pro-union nationalists or vice versa just for the sake of sawing a discord in Oromo liberation camp. Their motive is clear: Oromo should be divided, antagonized and polarized in order to be kept weak and ruled. What is really pity here is that some Oromo nationalists and scholars simply fall in this trap of the Woyane cadres and do bidding of the enemy without any payment. Actually Woyane has hired a lot of cadres doing the antagonizing job with the millions of dollars being invested on this project. May God open the eyes of our fool antagonizer Oromo nationalists, who are still doing the job of Woyane without payment!
Otherwise, to comprehend the political difference we do observe in the Oromo liberation journey you mentioned in your article, let us look at the four current political blocs in the empire:
- andinet hayiloch (unity forces): those forces, whom I can designate as Abyssinian Centralist Forces (ACF) are still trying to bring back the unitary empire as it had been before 1991, with the pretext of Ethiopian unity, still nostalgically longing for the empire, which was dominated by Amhara (old-Nefxenyaa) and Amharinya. This group wants to re-achieve the past & obsolete ‘Oromian extinction within Amhara empire;’
- abiyotawi hayiloch (revolutionary forces): the current ruling fascist regime of Woyane’s (neo-Nefxenya’s) revolutionary democratic forces, which also can be named as Abyssinian Bantustanist Fronts (ABF) are striving to keep the evil status quo of the temporary ‘Oromian occupation within Tigrean empire’;
- abironet hayiloch (unionist forces): those federalists, who try to achieve both national autonomy for all oppressed nations and regional union for common benefit, be it in the name of Ethiopia or the Horn of Africa. This group includes the forces of oppressed nations including Oromian Democratic Federalists (ODF), which want to realize a tactical ‘Oromian autonomy within Ethiopian union’ as a transitional solution;
- arinet hayiloch (independence forces): those oppressed nations fighting for an independence of their respective nations, like the Ogadenian and Oromian Liberation Forces (OLF), are freedom fighters, who seem to be determinedin order to push further for an ‘Oromian independence within African union’ as a lasting solution with more citizens’ liberty and national security.
This way or that way, fact on the ground tells us that old-Nefxenya’s Ethiopia of andinet hayiloch belongs to the past; the neo-Nefxenya’s Ethiopia of abiyotawi hayiloch is only temporary; a NEW oppressed-Nations’ Ethiopia of abironet hayiloch will be transitional; and an independent Oromia of arinet hayiloch is the realistically anticipated future! Gltm again!
Integrator:
You seem to be very insistent on your philosophy because I see copies of this article almost on every Oromo-related website. Please enlighten us on your theory. How much research have you conducted? And what social theory is your idea based on? What are your references?
Thank you
Thank you for your comment about Integrator.
I also do not understand this guy why he repeats 10000x. He should be…..
Intrgrater pls not disturb us.I Tired to saw this comment pls remove it.why are u comment the some on the every oromo speech?????Are u among Figa Or Diga????i think u’r describing ur self.Thank u!
“….The foes of the Oromo liberation movement, who are now trying to pour benzine on the conflict, do differ from the genuine Oromo nationalists in the ‘direction of their gun;’ they do direct their gun (verbal bullet) on Oromo nationalists, who do have different approaches towards bilisummaa Oromo and walabummaa Oromia, whereas the genuine Oromo nationalists, consequently and consciously, try to direct their gun unto the current tormenting enemy, unto the colonizers now ruling in Finfinne palace. Our foes do shoot continuously the Oromo nationalists, who do have different approach, whereas the genuine Oromo nationalists try to tolerate all Oromo political groups, which are having different tactics and strategies towards both bilisummaa and walabummaa. So, let all Oromo nationalists check the direction of our gun; we do have no problem with the different positions of our gut; we can love independence or union as some of us do claim, but just let’s wake up and see how many Oromo nationalists we sometimes mistakenly kill with our verbal bullet. Accordingly, both the pro-independence Oromo nationalists and the pro-union ones need to refrain from unnecessary orgy of throwing stones at each other, and to better concentrate on the feasible methods we can use to shoot in unison at the main current enemy, at the Woyane….”
Jarana maal wacaa jirtu? Namni sammuun ojjetu waan isini (commentators)hasoftan kana kessaa waan qabatamu tokkollee arguu danda’a natti hinfakaatu. Rakinni keyssani waan hasoftani wallaalu qofaa otoo hinta’in maaliif akka hasoftani (maal akka barbaadani) wallaalu irraa kan ka’e dha. Mirga Oromoon falmachaa jiruuf qabsoo godhaa jirra jettu ta’a. Mee itti yaada. Sammuu dhabdaani otoo hintain otoo itti hinyaadin xeebbaru waan hinsaalfanneef dha akkas godhaa jirtu. Aja’iba!
Galaangallo,
Namatti bu’uun dirqama miti. Namichi barresses waanuma jiru barresse. Yaada kan kennus kanuma itti fakkaatu dubbataa jira. Kan nutti fakaate dubachaa jirra namana. Arabsoof maa deemta??. Rakkoon nutti qabnu tokko ilaalcha anatu jabaadha, of guddisuf kaan cabsuf, xiqqesuuf kaachu kkf. Qabsa’aa jabaa taatu dhagaa lama darbattu kaanis kan laafa ati jettu ykn “comentators” jettu dhagaa xiqqaas dinatti akka darbatu barbaadna. Arabsoon hin dhufu kuni. Wal kabajudhan. Nama arabsitu akkasumatti argatta. Deeme deeme jibba namatti umtas nama jibitas. Karaa kana irraa bu’aan takka hin jiru. Isa walitti bu’an kana oso xiqqesine gaaridha. Dhugaa dubachuuf waanta asiratti barrefame “provoke” nama godhu hin jiru. Ani akkanattan si debise, tokko garu akkuma dhaagaa darbatetti dhagaadhuma sana si deebisa.