Why Dr. Abiy does not have committed constituents despite his popularity, poetic preach, and good mannerism?

May 31, 2019 | By Abbaa Ormaa, PhD

Oromo Liberation Army. On the left is one who decided not to give in the cause of the Oromo people. Those you submitted themselves to the government (right) were poisoned by the government agents. 

Xoollay is the new Qilinxoo where Oromos are tortured and poisoned.

What are the reasons for Dr. Abiy’s lack of committed constituents despite his poetic preach and good mannerism? I want his to succeed because his failure is a failure to all Ethiopians and the Horn of Africa. But I want him to succeed the right way not by violence and the old political machination.  In my opinion he is destined to fail unless he make corrective measure sooner than later!

Dr. Abiy’s real constituent has to come from the Oromo people. So why the Oromo people are not crazy about him outside a pocket of Oromos? I believe that this is his own making from day one! History tells his dance with the Amhara Nafxaas is the usual I call you when I need to use you. So, if he is to have a constituent it will be the Oromo people before anyone else. Why he is failing to secure that base?  I see two reasons.

First is history: HE was and is OPDO for God sake! This is something he and his few companions cannot shake off. For the las 27 years TPLF rode OPDO to incarcerate, torture, and massacre the Oromo people and take everything they can to enrich themselves and their people.  It is Abadula Gamada, Dr. Abiy’s architect of current Oromia police together with Leencoo Lataa, who lied in front of the world to pass the illegal “State of Emergency” that turned Oromia into Oromo killing zone. It is OPDO who turned Oromo farmers around Finfinnee into the Ekkaa, Galan, X, and Y of our time. Menilik cleared Ekkaa, Galan, X, and Y for his settler nafxaanyas. OPDO cleared what is left of their descendants from around Finfinnee in favor of Amhara Nafxaanyaa descendant settlers.

Both Dr. Abiy and Lemma are architects of EPRDF SpyNet that ruined and killed loved ones of thousands of Oromos. I don’t think the fake and false alarm for the hunt of Getachew Asafa is serious because they were in it together.

Second is what is happening today under Dr. Abiy and OPDO?

• – OPDO/EPRDF is waging war on Oromummaa and the Oromo people. An active war is going on in half of Oromia. They are working to replace Oromummaa by “Ethiopiawinet” under the slogan of being Ethiopian is an addiction.
• – Since OPDO moved into Menelik’s throne, close to three million Oromos are Internally Displaced and still counting.
• – OPDO declared war on Oromo people using the same old tactics of labeling civilian as OLF.
• – Youths are killed randomly in their work places, in their farms, some even scratching mother earth to get by the day. (8 kids killed on Wallaga while working on gravel for day’s bread.
• – Xoolay became the new Qilinxoo where thousands of Oromos from business people, Oromo youths, Oromo farmers, teachers, Doctors to former WBO’s are jailed and poisoned.
• – Part of Oromia, to be specific the South and West Oromia, is under command post worse than the TPLF era.
• – Oromo people in these areas are purposely blocked from harvesting their crops, harvest coffee, working on farms to impoverish them as a punishment of supporting the OLF.
• – OPDO is working day and night to divide the Oromo people by religion and region.
• – OPDO’s attempt to rewrite history to fight Oromummaa and promote Ethiopiawinet that the Oromo people rejected for more than a century.
• – OPDO is sabotaging Oromo traditional institution to substitute with its puppets as recently happened to Gummi Gadaa.
• – Dr. Abiy is more concerned about Finfinnee than the poor Oromo farmers that has been marginalized and impoverished for more than a century with no clinks, no schools, no running water, you name it. 25 billion promised for Finfinnee project can change the lives of millions of Oromo and other farmers in addressing these problems.
• – The Oromo people are fair and the unfair treatment of the Oromo Liberation Front and other Oromo political organizations and using government apparatus to push them.

Many Oromos hoped for new and better days but after a period of posturing life for Oromo youths, farmers, and students went to where it was under TPLF: war, kidnapping, incarceration, and displacement.

These are what I think has contributed to the rejection of ODP/OPDO by the majority of Oromos in favor of independent Oromo political organizations. The Oromo people are going back to armed struggle to change the EPRDF status quo for once and for all. If history is our guide, they will succeed!

Horaa Bulaa!