Ethiopia | Minister Melaku Fenta detained on corruption charges

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• It is appreciable that Ethiopian government committed to fight corruption. The struggle against corruption should have continuity and participate the people actively.

• it is a good beginning for our new prime minister. we are in confidence now by our government.on my opinion corruption will be minimized if we follow up it like this.

• This is a pace for the "next of kin" ...........follow without deceased.

• this the beginning not end 10q hailemariam. but this alarm for other minister hurry up to reach on the root and stem who are collect property

• Police seized millions of dollars and millions of birrs in cash from the private residence of Gebrewahid Woldegiorgis.

  The courts are not specifying the correct amount of cash that was seized because they are corrupt and want to steal some of it.

  The courts are corrupted through bribes , political manipulation, intimidation and domination.

  Gebrewahid is the latest fall-guy in the ongoing power struggle inside the ruling junta. He is no more corrupt than any of the other acting or retired TPLF officials who have been sucking the life blood of Ethiopia during the past 20 years.

• where the evidences for melaku's criminality.
  may be it is politics or ethnically harassment

• Klay yalew yetachun eyedefetete bhgerachen lay yerasun hager mseretwale

• This measures clearly show us how the Ethiopian government committed to fight against corruption. As most of us know this political organization was stepped up in this way so it is the culture of EPRDF. The EPRDF members and people of Ethiopia will continue to expose corrupted government officials and individuals so that our hop full beauty Ethiopia development will be continues. I think this is a yellow card for rent seekers either in government institutions or individuals in private business and delala(ደላላ). corruption is not only collecting the money and city places as arrested officials & individuals. It has also many dimension including assigning civil servants, transferring civil servants, step up and/or nominating individuals in government position with nontransparent procedures. so the government should also see in multidimensional approaches in his anti corruption program;;;

  • Please don’t get biased by this news. Melaku might have been a victim of a very complicated conspiracy planned by the government. He is a person of high character who has been very dedicated and hardworking to bring about changes he was engaged in. His great achievement in helping to develop the Afar Region and later setting up and running the Tax Revenue Administration office are a few to mention.. The Revenue office he is running is a cash cow for the country and they had to replace him with one of their own from Tigray… That is how they accuse and eliminate someone if they think he is on their way preventing them from stealing more. They chewed him like a sugar cane eating the juicy part and throwing him away the same way they do for the remain. I know it is going to be a difficult road until he clears his name and may God be with him and his family in this difficult time?

    • Melaku Fanta deserves to be behind bars. He was leading on of the least servicde-minded agencies of Ethiopia, where nothing is communicated clearly, rules are changed constantly, and the structures are replicas of the ancien regime of the Emperors, with all its nooks and crannies, and feudalism. Another agency wich is thorroughly unpolite and inefficient was Berhan Hailus old turf. And he got sacked as well! ANd dont make this into an ethnicity issue!!! Disgruntled diasporas who blame their misery on a certian ethnic group deserve utter misery!

• What's the next ??????????

• We all know that the country suffers from corruption, it could not be passed unless otherwise officials are qualified, competent, relevant and credible,,,,, it `s turning point, go a head from top to the bottom!!!!