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[temari]

He went to the media and exposed them. We need more citizens who peacefully and legally fighting back to benefit not only themselves but the the society as a whole.

[Sam Ebalalehu]

A dozen years ago, I was in Addis for several months. The severity of corruption that I have heard among the residents of Addis was so disturbing that I almost lost hope in the country’s future.
Corruption has become prevalent, the bureaucracy seemed to have created its own power, even the government seemed reluctant to do anything to fight it off.
I grew up in Addis. While I was a teenager hearing a traffic police taking bribe was a big news. The bureaucracy was inefficient and slow, but not corrupt as of now. A democratic government cannot be operational with the degree of corruption Ethiopia is accommodating today.
It is not the right remedy once in a few years to call “ gemegama,” — the word I passionately hate — to demote some who bribe millions. It is just a show.
Any responsible government should first acknowledge corruption in Ethiopia is a crises of greater proportion. And second it should laid out policy to tackle the root cause of the problem. I am a realist. I do not expect to see a corruption free Ethiopia. Not at all. But it has to come to a point it does not entirely dominate the way the country functions.

[DefendTheTruth]

Some of the corruption practices are partly, perhaps to the most part, due to the backward way of doing business in the country.

Business process automation and digitalization could have helped curb many of these malpractices. The current way of doing business is simple prone to abuse and inefficiency.

Corruption is simply invasive.

All companies and other institutions in the country can't claim to be free from such inefficiencies, which is hurting the nation.

If we progress we can probably afford to start to modernize our businesses and then root-out the problem from its very foundation.

There is a saying which goes like ኮምፒዉተርና ሞኝ የያዘዉን አይለቀም።

This very much true. It helps to enable transparency, if there is a transparency then there is no room for a shadow businesses. I assume those on the ground are not totally unaware of this fact. They are just waiting for the right moment, I think.

[ZEMEN]

A dozen years ago, I was in Addis for several months. The severity of corruption that I have heard among the residents of Addis was so disturbing that I almost lost hope in the country’s future.
Corruption has become prevalent, the bureaucracy seemed to have created its own power, even the government seemed reluctant to do anything to fight it off.
I grew up in Addis. While I was a teenager hearing a traffic police taking bribe was a big news. The bureaucracy was inefficient and slow, but not corrupt as of now. A democratic government cannot be operational with the degree of corruption Ethiopia is accommodating today.
It is not the right remedy once in a few years to call “ gemegama,” — the word I passionately hate — to demote some who bribe millions. It is just a show.
Any responsible government should first acknowledge corruption in Ethiopia is a crises of greater proportion. And second it should laid out policy to tackle the root cause of the problem. I am a realist. I do not expect to see a corruption free Ethiopia. Not at all. But it has to come to a point it does not entirely dominate the way the country functions.

Temari it is true how bad the corruption is. it is almost becoming a system. However; people do and act as their leaders. I don't know about Abiy but everyone in that group corrupted as hell. For instance, i was in Addis and there was report that Adanech Abebe 42 million birr was transfer to her account and this was reported by Temesgen Desaleg of FITH news let. And when he reported it, he was jailed for a few days and upon the public out cry they let him out. In any other country he would have been awarded not jailed but tells you the magnitude of the corruption.