Who would have thought the political career of Abiy Ahmed Ali that opened in fraud and treachery would end in wanton violence and treason?
Abiy’s career was prosecuted, in peace, through preaching peace and unity. And in war through wanton violence and treason.
He enlisted the support of UAE’s deadly drones and Eritrean boots and tanks to fight his own people on provocations.
What he proved in the past two years and a half is his extraordinary talent for treachery and penchant for unconstrained power while peddling a peace and unity rhetoric.
Through such unparalleled talent for fraud and treachery, he secured not only the premiership and chairmanship of EPRDF, but also ended up winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, only a year shy of his declaration of the war on Tigray, a member of the Ethiopian federation.
He rode the wave of populist protests to power by giving contradictory messaging about his support for and oppostition to multinational federalism, which was anathema to most Amhara politicians, albeit supported by a vast majority of his Oromo constituency.
In doing so, he came to win the support of both unitarist and opportunist pluralist forces, which were dubbed as the OroMara. He invaded the Somali Region just a couple of months into his tenure as a prime minister, in violation of the federal principle. He went on shaking up regional administrations around the country, except for Tigray, whose turn has now come.
While we were all distracted by the Western world’s most powerful scene, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia gave the ENDF the marching order to rain bullets on Tigray region, a member of the Ethiopian federation.
Alas, when Abiy couldn’t settle a conflict at the ballot box, he chose the bullet. The war on Tigray is nothing but a continuation of his unitarist, centralist, and totalitarian ambition.
He was a mole in the EPRDF-led government where he acted as the chief saboteur-instgator of the Oromo protest movements led from Minnesota. He held a command within the Oromo First Movement while serving in the leadership of OPDO/EPRDF.
On his own admission, he passed classified information to the OLF while he was the deputy director of the Ethiopian cyber spy agency, INSA.
It didn’t take him long before he turned against his allies to sack them from positions of power or throw them in jail. Lemma Megersa was removed from his position as Defense Minister and Jawar Mohammed and Bekele Gerba are behind bars.
It took only less than 3 years for Abiy to make the civil war clock tick on Ethiopia 30 years after the termination of the 17 years war. What makes it all the more tragic is it is being prosecuted through wanton violence and treason.
The secretive, exclusionary rapprochement with Eritrea was only a preliminary stage in the joint planning of the war against Tigray. Ethiopian law is clear on treason and espionage which Abiy violated on many levels. (Articles 248-250, Criminal Code).