Recent developments around kinijit

The leadership crises in kinijit reached its climax this week when engineer hailu suspended 5 top CUD leaders who toured North America recently. In this 7 pages long letter the chairman mentions countless unfounded allegations and hearsays as the basis for his decision. He, however, mentions nowhere in the letter what section in the bylaw gives him the power to single handedly decide on such major issues (he in fact couldn’t answer this very question in his interview with journalist addisu abebe of the VOA amharic. click voa for part 1 and amharic for part 2) Most of the allegations in the suspension letter actually fit ato hailu's actions better than anyone else. What he just did is the replica of what shaleqa yosef did earlier when he suspended KIL and Andargachew and berhane. The action of ato hailu and his groups is a clear evidence that shows these people are foreign to their bylaws in particular and democratic principles in general. What they know well instead is smear campaign and spreading unfounded allegations on individuals.
The other group on the other hand released a mildly worded press release in response to the engineer’s decision. They also came on ECADF and briefed thousands of listeners regarding the situation. In this paltalk interview Dr hailu and sileshi proved once again their leadership caliber. Despite some emotionally driven suggestions from some frustrated audiences to quick fix the problem, they insisted on following what the bylaw says and responding to ato hailu’s action in kind would be hypocritical. As much as we wanted to see a quick solution to this debacle, we liked the way they are handling the situation. Instead of emotionally responding and trying to fix engineer hailu’s mistake by another mistake, they chose to put personal grudges aside and stick to following the party’s procedures. We all need to applause them for that.
On this same ECADF briefing we were baffled to hear elias kifle of Ethiopian review suggesting protest rally against the engineer and his group. We wonder why elias thinks we need to protest against them. Is it because they are not with us any more? They have every right to break away and go their own way. And we don’t think we need to have protests of any kind against these people. We have to show them that we are different breed of politicians who respect differing opinions. If we have to protest it would make sense to protest against EPRDF’s brutality in ogaden, oromia, gambella other regions of the country. Elias, please heed our advice and drop that absurd idea of organizing protests. It doesn’t help the struggle for democracy in any shape or form besides making us the laughing stack of EPRDF. If you have the time and the energy, there are millions of things you can do to help the struggle.
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On another note, its beyond our understanding to see the merits of posting this kind of articles. It is just lowering ourselves to the level of Ethiolion/EPRP and KIC owned kinijit/org. They are good at doing smear campaigns and personal attacks on any one who dares to stand against them. Let us not distract ourselves from the main agenda. Let us leave them behind and keep the fight for democracy going.