Ethiopia: OPDO pleased with Oromo student protests

Both aster and muktar are so much corrupted and ‘dogs’ for TPLF. We dont expect much from them. We expect a lot from middle ranking OPDO officials.

Plus this is an issue of all Oromos. No single woman can decide about it. Sit and see.

this is just nonsense urbanization is nothing to do with destroying ingenious nation for new settlers from TIgray & somewhere else, no one trust the minority regime and their crack puppet , they want destroy kush nation like Oromo,sidama.Afar and Somali from their God given land >>>

Let’s not sell or lease, but make our farmers land part of an investment capital in any business!!!

For an Ethiopian farmer, his land is his birthplace and birthrights. It
is his only inheritance that passed to him from his forefathers from
generation to generation for thousands of years. It is his only capital
and livelihood. It is the only resource
and wealth that he knows how to manage. Measuring wealth in paper money
and security derivatives are alien to him. His land is his only secure
foundation to sustain his family. He has no existence outside his land.
His land is his country. His land is his home. His land is his
birthplace, the birthplace of his children, and the resting place of the
graves of his forefathers. His land is his history, his memory, his
culture, his language, his literature, and his security in life. His
land for our farmer is his whole existence and meaning in life.

Our people received this invaluable gift, a beautiful country and a
beautiful land, from God for free. But as God commanded them at
creation, they maintained and kept it for generations passing it to our
generation. They got it for free from God, but they kept and maintained
it at high price. Our forefathers defended it by their blood and
maintained it by their sweat for thousands of years. They defended it
from colonial powers in the 19th and 20th century. History and world
will not forget the heroic deeds of our forefathers at the Battle of
Adawa. Who forgets our patriots such as Ras Abebe Argai Becheree, Balcha
Aba Nafso, Belay Zeleke, Abdisaa Aga, Kebede Bezunish, Alula and many
more who defend this land and this country? Who forgets the blood of the
students of the 1960s who died to take back this land from deviant
domestic land-grabbers who made our people serfdom for 60 years under
Emperors Menelik and Hailesellassie?

Now in our generation, our
farmers land again is up for grab by unscrupulous international
land-grabbers and shortsighted domestic speculators. The code word is
development and globalization. How are we going to deal with it? Should
we just follow closed door policy by shutting our doors to global and
domestic capital? Should we just ask our government to defend us at any
cost? Can we overcome the global forces aligned against us by following
these policies? How are we going to defend and protect our farmers from
the global surplus capital and domestic land traders? It requires
national soul searching and making sound policy decision that secures a
place and economic space for our people and our country in the world. It
is not the responsibility we could just leave to our government. Coming
up with a better policy choices is the responsibility of us all. But
the government bears the primary responsibility in making the right
policy decisions.

Land policy is not like short-term fiscal
policy. It is not like crafting five years development plan. It is a
decision on birthrights and birthplace of our people. It is a national
question connected with our own survival as a nation, our language, our
culture, our history, and our future as a people. People who lost their
land in the past lost all this. Historical evidences abound for easy of
reference on this matter. Just look at how the indigenous people of
North America, South America, and Australia lost everything once they
lost their land. Close home, it took a century of struggle for the
people of South Africa to get back their country. It took more than two
millennium for Jewish people to find a place called home. I don’t think
any Ethiopian desires similar fates for our people.

It is also
ungodly and against God’s will to sell ones birthplace and birthrights.
There is a classic story in the Bible on the selling of one’s
birthrights. It is Esau’s sell of his birthrights for a meal of lentil
stew in Genesis 25:29–34. The story connotes shortsightedness and
misplaced priorities of a man who lost his birthright by failing to
overcome temporary inconvenience. A great body of literature and wisdom
was built around this classic story to teach children and even grown up
men not to fall for a lentil of stew. The advice is simple and straight
forward. Don’t sell your birthrights for something that is “immediately
attractive but of little value taken foolishly and carelessly in
exchange for something more distant and perhaps less tangible but
immensely more valuable.”

Just think of the abhorrent situation
of innocent Oromo farmers around Addis Ababa who over the last ten
years through unconscionable practice of deception and tricks made to
sign on legal document that deprive them of their ancestral land forever
by giving them a paper money that will not buy them one lentil stew at
Sheraton Addis. What better policy options could we offer these farmers
and others who are soon to be like them under the “new integrated master
plan”?

Let’s say we all agree to develop our country and our
people, and take them out of poverty. Let’s also say we all agree not to
sell the birthplace and birthrights of our people to feed them today if
we are given a better choices. Then the question is what policy options
do we have to survive in this globalized economy and pull us out of
poverty?

By all account our only two national resources are our
people and our land. Then, how could we maximize our share in the
globalized economy with what we have? As any business person will tell
you, land is the corner stone of any economy and the most important
fixed capital whose value continuously increases in any business
setting. Remember, the reason most East Asian, Arabs and Western
capitalists come to our country to buy our land today is that they know
the value our land as the world population hits 10 billion in few years
and global food supply skyrockets.

Let’s say we need the
capital and business skills of these capitalists for our development.
Let them come with their paper money and skills. We have our land and
our people. Let’s do business with them. To supply them skilled labor,
let’s invest in our people educationally and in other areas until we
become investors ourselves.

As for our land, let’s not lease or
sell to them: Let’s make our land part of the investment capital for
our farmers in those businesses. That will make our farmers shareholders
of any business that will be invested on his land with the title and
ownership to his land legally secured and permanently protected.

If the development agenda underway at the behest of the World Bank and
IMF are to benefit our people, let’s make the asset of our people, their
land, part of the investment capital and make our farmers shareholders
and stakeholders of these businesses.

Let’s stop selling or
leasing the birthplace and birthrights of our people at a price far less
than a lentil of stew or mess pottage. Let the Ethiopian government and
regional governments like the Oromia National Regional State
immediately enact policies and laws that will make our farmers
shareholders and owners of any business to be invested on their land
with their title to their ancestral land permanently protected and
secured including their succession rights. Let the hereditary rist
system customary in our country be protected by law and policy, and
refuse to sell the birthplace and birthrights of our people

This is impressive how ethiopia democracy is progressing well

Everybody should give credit to the government because in other poor countries, we see many thousand protesters killed in streets

It is incumbent on the intolerant ethnic warmongers to accommodate the right of other people to live on their ancestral land.

why killing young oromo university students, where is democracy

WHEN YOU SEE EGYPT LEAVE NAKED AND BAREFOOT KNOW THAT…GOD …SAY’S SO WILL ETHIOPIA