This is Gilo River in #Gambella region: The “Ever Green” Land Of The “People Of The Rivers.”
This region is known to possess many untapped resources.These include large deposits of gold and other minerals,as well as fertile land,ample water,rivers,forests and abundant wildlife.
This region is known to possess many untapped resources.These include large deposits of gold and other minerals,as well as fertile land,ample water,rivers,forests and abundant wildlife.
In the past 30 years, the people of Gambella have been largely denied or otherwise illegally excluded from the utilization of these resources in their own region.
As a result, they have suffered egregious human rights abuses, forced displacement, politically based imprisonment, especially of leaders, the destruction or loss of land, property and infrastructure, as well as environmental degradation.
Resources and profits have not been equitably utilized to improve development, healthcare, education, public services, infrastructure or to stimulate the economy for the people of the region.
Instead, the region has suffered a great decline in terms of these important areas of family, civil, public, and economic life, disproportionately affecting the indigenous people of the region.
Economic opportunities are vast in the region,particularly in such areas as agriculture and minerals. Additional economic opportunities exist,some related to the great need for the construction of schools, healthcare facilities, bridges, roads and other systems of transportation.
As the region attracts new partners in these opportunities, it is time for the people of Gambella to have a voice in this development so as to ensure that the interests of the people of the region are upheld in new “win-win” ethical models of “doing business.”
Those pursuing such new models of value-based business practice, which also enhance the wellbeing of the region, will be welcomed to participate in these new market opportunities and the shared utilization of the untapped resource assets of Gambella.
I support the need for the people of Gambella to have a voice in the future development of Gambella State so that these principle-based standards of business operation—“win-win”models of “doing business”—are adopted and supported.Long live this beautiful,ancient land of #Ethiopia
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