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\u201cI was very skeptical from the very beginning, and that\u2019s why I couldn\u2019t give it the benefit of the doubt, \u201d said Tona, an Ethiopian Taxi driver in DC.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn an event of heavy run or flooding, the dam would easily collapse. And communities in the upstream will be devastated, \u201c said an irrigation technology expert based in Finland.<\/p>\n
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4 billion USD by TPLF \u2013 and 0.5 billion USD by EPRDF and its value network \u2013 laundered out of Ethiopia in the last fiscal year alone,\u201d laments Gebru \u2013 a senior Financial analyst at Commercial Bank of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
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This yields 34.5 billion USD\u2013 nearly the same as the aid that Ethiopia received\u2013 as the total amount laundered out of Ethiopia since TPLF took hostage the country three decades a go.<\/p>\n
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On 31 March 2011, a day after the project was made public, a US $4.8 billion contract was awarded without any competitive bidding to Salini Costruttori \u2013 which is notorious for participating in a number of opaque deal projects in Ethiopia \u2013 and the dam\u2019s foundation stone was laid on 2 April 2011 by then tyrant Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. This mega laundering project \u2013 Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam\u2013 \u00a0of which fixed cost alone increased by 1400% is overdue by couple of years. Worth yet, the regime intercepted the mega project unofficially by firing thousands of employees on site.<\/p>\n
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\u201c The regime is so tyrant that it doesn\u2019t even care about committing tyranny openly, \u201c continued Gebru.<\/p>\n
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\u201d We are obliged to keep quite about the interception of the mega project,\u201d said a construction engineer just fired from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam construction industry complex.<\/p>\n
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\u201c A fellow construction worker and a friend of mine from Afar is thrown in to prison for sending a text message that he\u2019s redundant due to the \u2018interception of the mega project\u2019,\u201c \u00a0continued the construction engineer.<\/p>\n
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A website reporting the status of the project is reportedly shut down. The division in charge of \u2018Systematic repression and information encapsulation\u2019 at the Ethiopian intelligence has just finalized its poor holistic training of state journalists about the need for being reticent with regard.<\/p>\n
\u201cMillions of lives have been lost under the TPLF regime, and billions of USD laundered out. Worth yet, we are still counting ,\u201c continued Tona.<\/p>\n
The whereabouts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has yet got to be known ; one thing is clear that the Ethiopian regime didn\u2019t manage to secure yet another sum for laundering. Not surprisingly, no one will be held accountable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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