1/7/2024 0 Comments Sisay agena![]() ![]() None of these men were of course Tigreans and their court appearance and conviction (with the exception of the latter) had nothing to do with their ethnic background. ![]() His calculated anti Tigrean slander (intended to reach Ethiopian audiences in the country and outside) only listed the names of non-Tigrean businessmen known to have failed foul of the law as evidence for the allegation.Īyat Real Estate’s Tessema Ayalew serving a prison sentence following tax related charges among others and Leikun Berhanu a former president of Awash International Bank also convicted of a foreign exchange mismanagement offence as well as Tekalign Gedamu another banker implicated in the loss of 57 million Birr at Abyssinia Bank were all names Sisay Agena bandied to justify his toxic internecine hate message. Not a single proof to justify the outrageous claim. Sisay had, of course, no quantitative or qualitative data to substantiate his hateful assertions. A comment he made in open reference to uptown Bole Medhanealem which he dubbed Region 1. The ex-army lieutenant-turned-tabloid-‘editor’-turned ‘political pundit’, all through sheer dogged ideological antagonism to the ruling party, spun on end without proof about how a whole neighbourhood in Addis Ababa has suddenly turned into an exclusive settlement for those who have hailed from Tigray. The commentator Sisay Agena responded to carefully crafted questions by the host Mesay Mekonnen who didn’t hide the bigotry of the 5 minute broadcast as he went about echoing politically charged unverifiable claims aimed at one ethnic group.Īccording to Sisay, Ermias was but the latest casualty in the state’s long term plan of driving out non-Tigrean businessmen and women who have worked their way to the top - many of them with established reputations as ‘successful’ and ‘visionary’ entrepreneurs at home and abroad. However, in what must be a dramatic twist to the story, the Washington based pro opposition ESAT radio took to the airwaves on Tuesday 19 th February claiming the arrest was proof of tacit government efforts to re-engineer in favour of ‘Tigreans’ the composition of players in the lucrative real estate sector. ![]() In fact, customers who spoke in the wake of Ermias’ one-day detention saw his arrest as the potential onset of bigger and perhaps long running lawsuits which may have been looming for quite some time. To the dismay of nearly all 2000 or so customers across 11 construction sites, the company that Ermias has founded and led since 2008, however, completely missed the tight delivery schedules it set itself relentlessly advertising to lure customers desperate to put roof over their heads. His company, ARE, had collected cash advances in many cases the full amount of the purchase price to build and deliver apartments in 12 to 18 months in some of Addis Ababa’s highly sought-after locations. When the surprise but brief arrest of Ermias Amelga, the beleaguered head of Access Real Estate was announced last month, the cause of his arrest would have been obvious to the hundreds of customers who accuse him of letting them down by failing to deliver their long awaited dreams of owning homes that they could call their own. There you see yewshet Esatoch in their so called television studio, if you can call a basement room a TV studio? This is where all the hate mongering and poisonous propaganda is cooked. ![]()
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