kinijit and its current leadership crises

Kinijit is a struggling party that is trying to build itself up from a scratch. It is expected to increase its supporter base and raise funds for the various endeavors it is about to indulge into. In light of the multifold challenges the party is faced with, one would expect the leaders to take on this task of reviving the spirit of democracy in harmony. We hoped they understand that their release from prison wasn’t the end of the struggle but the beginning of the even harder struggle to free the entire nation from the grip of dictatorship.
What we are witnessing now, unfortunately, is a more divided leadership that is arguing on very minor things instead of focusing on the issues they are in the struggle to begin with-that is to help dictatorship end and democracy prevail in Ethiopia.
The main blame here lays on the chairman, engineer Hailu Shawl. We have to call a spade a spade. The other leadership might have their own share of blame but the way they are handling the problem is much way classier that the chairman does. We have to give credit where credit is due. Since the start of this crises ato Hailu has been in a very destructive campaign against his colleagues and the party by extension. Instead of trying to solve the issues internally he chose to go on various radio stations and paltalk rooms with repetitive, incoherent, and some times contradicting arguments. He also chose to surround himself with apologists and people who are known for their anti-unity behavior. Instead of focusing on the facts he preferred to trust his personal relationships with certain individuals. Its not personal business he is trying to undertake here, it is a business of a party that is much greater and bigger than personal relationships.
It wouldn’t be a problem if he just went on every media outlets that asked for his interview. But the problem is he was more than available to some and totally unavailable for others. That isn’t the leadership we want to bring to power. Isn’t that what we hate about EPRDF? Either be available to all or available to none. Favoring medias that support him and avoiding others that he thinks might be against his stand is very undemocratic. That is really dictatorship in another form.
On another note, we listened to the October 14 meeting in D.C. It was the most disappointing meeting we ever had to witness. First of, we couldn’t quite figure out why ato Bedru and Wzo Nigist had to fly all the way from Addis, unless it is to surround ato Hailu with even more apologists. These two people were on many medias including newspapers back home and paltalk and websites here in the U.S. We haven’t heard them saying anything different in this particular meeting than what they already said before. Spending the money collected from supporters in this kind of unnecessary ways is so irresponsible.
The meeting in D.C and the speakers on that meeting, including the chairman, shattered our hope to see reconciliation among the leadership. We hope Ato hailu reevaluate his actions and come back to his senses.
Supporters of kinijit expect a much wiser leadership who is not blinded by personal ego- leaders that are willing to sacrifice their own personal interest to the well being of the party and the country as a whole. And we believe the supporters deserve that.