MAIN REASONS WHY OROMO DIALOGUE FORUM SHOULD BE DISSOLVED

16 February 2013 | Oromo Press

By Observer2013

Top 10 reasons why Lenco Lata and Co. should consider dissolving Oromo Dialogue Forum (ODF) and doing something productive for themselves and the Oromo people.

1. Oromo/Oromia has too many leaders who are capable of leading the struggle other than them;
   
   
2. They have the right to create a party, but anything they establish, ODF included, is going to fail because they lack popular credibility because of unsuccessful credentials in leading the struggle for over 40 years; What changed now? Did the Lencos morph into other superhero figures all of a sudden?
   
   
3. Lack of struggle-related methodological clarity won't make them different from OPDO or Oromo Federalist Congress; they will surely lose if they go home. They will be thrown into jail like Bekele Gerba, Olabana Lelisa, Birtukan Midekssa, Andualem Arage and Eskinder Nega and so on;
   
   
4. Gracefully retire (gadamoojja'uu ykn soorata ba'uu) and write books/memoirs specific to their field experience in the Oromo national struggle so people can learn from why they failed;
   
   
5. ODF has already held way too many pointless public meetings and wasted valuable time and money. We have never seen any new party that has gone on meeting-spree in such a short time in our entire life;
   
   
6. Be around their families and prepare for personal health issues related to the last years of their lives;
   
   
7. Get over memory failure that no Abyssinian would give up power for majority or democratic rule without military + diplomatic victories;
   
   
8. Alliance with G7 and northern reactionary parties is a wrong and unsustainable path to freedom. Alliance with oppressed peoples of the South such as Oromia, Afar, Ogaden/Somali, SNNP, Gambella, Gumuz would have made much more sense given the common history of colonization and persecution. As always, ODF leaders have no plan B,C, D, E... and Z; ODF just wants to create unnecessary divisions/confusions to no avail while the Oromo camp is in the process of consolidating historic unity;
   
   
9. Western governments respect and support only those opposition groups who have demonstrated strength or real-politcal power (military strength, popular support). "Haatuu ilma dadhabaa hinjaallattu!" jedha mitiiree jechamini Oromootuu? [Even a mother does not like a weak and submissive kid.]; and
   
   
10. A party established out of personal vendetta for being fired from OLF because of disciplinary issues is a house of cards; it will fall apart if a strong pro-liberation wind blows and shuns these big losers, I don't mean weight although that is also true.