Worthless oppositions

 

Ethiopian opposition parties are prone to violence and unaccustomed to peaceful political environment. They always carry two sharp knifes in each hand, one to use it against each other like CUD, EPRP and other failed parties to eliminate their own members and the other one is to be used against the governing party. Compromise, tolerance, dialogue and rapprochement are not in the vocabulary of the oppositions. Nation building, respect for oppressed nations and nationalities and poverty eliminations and development endeavors are far away from their agendas.  Conspiracy, constant bickering, endless complaints and useless arguments are the hallmark of the Ethiopian oppositions. Genuine, patriotic, developmental oriented, democratic, civilized, well-planned and principled opposition parties yet to emerge on the political landscape of Ethiopia.

 

Successive dictatorial and repressive regimes did enormous damages to the economic, political, democratic and social development of this nation. Equally, the absence of viable, vibrant, credible, genuine and patriotic opposition parties compounded the misery and the suffering of our people beyond comprehension. In fact inexperienced, shortsighted, careless, greedy and hateful oppositions and armed groups exposed and compromised the integrity and the unity of this nation several times. The total preoccupations of the oppositions to acquire power by any and violence means left this country with abject poverty and perpetual civil strive. The oppositions remain the main factors of polarizations and instability among our society. They utterly failed to understand and carryout the roles and responsibilities the people of Ethiopia and this country aspiring for. They undermined and outsold vital interests and the sovereignty of Ethiopia.

 

The despicable oppositions allied and continue to conspire on several occasions with various external forces to overthrow the government and undermine the sovereignty of our country. The incestuous lobbying and the call of the oppositions to Western governments, legislatures and U.S. congress for interventions and impositions of HR2003 is one of the most flagrant violations and treasons committed against our country.  The oppositions led by the likes of Hailu Shawel, Berhanu Nega and Bertukana Medesk openly courted and begged Americans to draft legislative bills to punish Ethiopia.  Sponsors of HR2003 include among others, the Eritrean regime, and EPPF, OLF, and ONLF, despicable and rotten members of Diaspora and supporters of CUD. This grouping also is the same one that constitutes AFD and organized under the auspicious and sponsorship of EPLF. Most of the oppositions are adopted a bad habit of sleeping and conspiring with number one Ethiopian enemy, EPLF. The offices of AFD, ONLF, OLF, and EPPF all headquartered in Asmara and take their marching orders from avid enemy of Ethiopia. The CUD whose peaceful struggle is just a cover for the consumption of their Western masters is allied with the same elements and set to see Ethiopia march to hell.

 

It is shame, saddening and hurtful to see our fellow citizens allied with Ethiopian enemies just to score a political point. In many occasions members of he oppositions including the one sitting in the parliament refused and objected to any condemnations of the terrorist act carried out by the Eritrean regimes and its mercenaries. The loss of many innocent lives by terrorist bombing in different part of our country and the brutal massacre of Chinese oil workers and Ethiopian civilians could not force the conscious of the oppositions to condemn such barbarity.  Only in Ethiopia that the oppositions are refuses to support and stand with the national defense force of the country. Regardless of the government policy, our army in Somalia must be supported and encouraged for huge and worthy sacrifices they are making for our closest kin's and national security interest. Unfortunately and sadly the opposition's rigged and immature mentality could not allow extending their support to our glorious army. Here the opposition's stand on national security is not only a total failure but also pointing toward deliberate conspiracy and sabotages.   The rotten Diaspora, which finance and provide ideological and political directions for most of the oppositions openly champions the terrorist activities of   Islamic courts, Alshabab terrorists, ONLF and Eritrean regimes against the interests of both the people of Ethiopia and Somalia. Some of their websites cheerfully displayed and carried the messages of Alshabab terrorists dragging the body of our soldiers. The crimes and conspiracies of the called Ethiopian oppositions are endless. The stand and the political positions of the oppositions over Eritrea and UNMEE are very close to the Eritrean regime than that of Ethiopia. Actually the wish and desire of most of the oppositions is to see the Eritrean regime come to their rescue and crown them on the throne. The failure of the oppositions to come on side of our country and people is a clear indication of their uselessness and worthlessness in shaping and nurturing the democratic credential of Ethiopia.

 

The struggle for power grab by any means and at any cost is the goal and the objectives of the oppositions. Now or never is the slogan and absolute zero sum game is the hallmark of the oppositions. Ethiopian interest, democracy, human rights issues are simply window dressing to cover up their dirty crimes.  The issue of reconciliation’s, development, democracy and good governance is far away from their agendas. These hooligans and modern slaves see foreign intervention and violence as a ticket to their power to rule and oppress our people once again. Moreover, these people are shown to the whole world their despotic and undemocratic nature by their inability to even tolerate and handle each other with respect and democratically. How could such people speak of democracy and human right issues? These people who preach doom and gloom and strangled by enormous hate and vengeance and desire nothing than the complete destruction of EPRDF. For them EPRDF is an align entity which must be destroyed at any cost regardless of ramifications on the unity and stability of the country.   They rejected to recognize EPRDF as legitimate force and their refusal to work with common and vial national issues denied the people of Ethiopia critical services and developments.   Moreover, the worthless opposition's ugly conspiracy and deceit as a political tool denied the people of Ethiopia peace and stability. Most of the oppositions are set to perpetuate poverty, violence and hate as political strategy. As far as hate is the driving force for opposing the present government the political space continue to shrink and disappear for these kinds of destructive forces. By their choice and design the oppositions are shrinking and closing their constitutional and natural political space on themselves.

 

By rejecting the legitimize and the rightful place of EPRDF and labeling it as enemy and anti Ethiopia, the oppositions are effectively closing and shutting down all venues for peaceful power transfer and political process.  Election is one of the means where legitimate, democratic and peaceful political parties seek a mandate to govern from the public. The base of any election is the existence of some common goals, trust and respect for the rule of law among the contending parties. In our case most of the oppositions have no common goals, mistrust each other and hate the governing party. They also reject and never recognized the constitutions of the country. Most of them are joined the parliament for political expediency rather than helping our people to overcome poverty and build democratic society. In nutshell, they are spoilers and waiting for opportune moment to undermine the system. Instead of conducting themselves as loyal and credible oppositions, they employ dirty tactics of ridiculing, insulating and embarrassing the government and member of the parliament.

 

Inflammatory rhetoric, crises escalations, polarizing the society and calls for foreign interventions and seeking cheap propaganda from defunct western media and fake human rights grouping is what they do during the elections. The oppositions know very well that they are disorganized, dejected by people and never have committed to do their homework among the people.  They do not believe in the elections and therefore go for the kill and defaming the whole process. Boycott is a political statement and instrument to deny legitimize and function of the election. When some of the parties decided to boycott the election at the last minute, they trying their best to derail and sabotage the democratic and political process of the country. They trying to show their external backers that the election is fake and this government has no mandate from the people. The oppositions are just looking for any kind of opportunity to escalate the crisis, derail the development and democratic process and create sensational and cheap propaganda for the consummation of outside world. The boycott of the election by some oppositions designed to cover their weakness and undermine the over all democratic and political process of the country.

 

In this respect, the oppositions are proven beyond doubt they are useless and worthless entities and they outlived their purpose and can be declared as spent and expired force. The people of Ethiopia deserve better and have no desire for these kinds of divisive and useless parties. Most of the present political parties did nothing and contributed zero to the betterment of the peoples of Ethiopia. The people of Ethiopia deserve and need better genuine, patriotic, developmental oriented, democratic, civilized, well-planned and principled opposition parties. All of us and the government of Ethiopia have a duty and responsibility to provide good governance and political space for peaceful and democratic loyal opposition parties. We must move on forward to build democratic country and remove poverty on the back of our people. Poverty becomes our huge liability and a source of vulnerability and means of a weapon for our enemies.  Thus, we need to focus on development and work hard in unions to elevate our people high and to the bright future.

 

Thanks

 

Abdel