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Obang Metho

27 Mar, 10 tweets, 3 min read

I would to send my deepest condolences to the family of Ato Bafekadu Damesse Bazabgh, the driver of the Irish aid agency, GOA Ethiopia, who was savagely killed last Friday, 23Kilometers from the town of Nedjo in the West Wallaga Zone of the Oromia region.

He left behind a wife and three children; two girls and one boy.His family said he was a selfless and giving person. All he wants was to earn money to support his three children's education. He left behind children who will never know what it’s like to grow up with their father.

I am sick and tired of seeing the horrific images and graphic videos of innocent people being massacred throughout the country and the failure of the government to protect the people.

The core responsibility of any government is the security and wellbeing of all their citizens regardless of their ethnicity; yet, it is the ethnic extremists who are doing the killing of unarmed civilians in desperate circumstances.

Those who are doing the killing or ethnic cleansing should be held accountable. The safety, security and peace among the people is a paramount issue that should be immediately addressed in every region.

Our #Ethiopian people are frustrated, tired and sick of lawlessness and chaos while our politicians are dissociating themselves from the day-to-day reality lawlessness on the ground. It is unhealthy and dangerous.

Let no one deceive you. Justice is what we all need to calm the country. We should not get used of barbaric killing of innocent people. We have a duty to speak out against ethnic based killing, lawlessness and injustice that is rooted in systemic tribalism.

We must come together as a nation, not ethnic group or fracture in lawlessness. The law is designed to protect life over death, liberty over tyranny and order over chaos. What we have today is the other way around and we must change it.

We cannot be silent about the responsibility we each have to bring about the best outcome for our country during this time of such great risk to our country.

What we all need in Ethiopia is lawfulness and fairness, NOT lawlessness and unfairness.

May the Almighty God/Allah protect all our precious people of Ethiopia and beautiful country from all kind of enemies internal and external.

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