ESAT News
January 17, 2013
The former Minister of Communications and now the advisor of Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn, Bereket Simon, said at a recent meeting and evaluation with ministers and top leadership of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) “because farmers are happy with the works we have done for them so far, they will come to any demonstration if we call them, sleep if we order them and bear anything this government does
As 30% of our expenses is covered by foreign aid, to be clear from external dependency we have to get an income that covers our expenses, said Bereket admitting that just after the 2005 general election was held, foreign powers had stopped giving us aid because we had arrested the opposition.
He also recollected that during the drought that occurred in 1992, the Head of the American aid organisation had said that they would not give them an aid unless they changed their land policy.
EPRDF is giving training to all its members from the top to the bottom brass on how they could win the upcoming general election in 2015. The Front as well as Bereket are fully confident that they will win the election. Cadres of EPRDF are also reportedly engaged in the organisation of farmers through a one-to-five system of organisation and distributing pieces of land to disgruntled youth in rural areas.
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