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[DefendTheTruth]

The PM has stressed during his recent address of community representatives from all parts of Oromia (the same way he did with the Amhara communities before that) saying please come never again with problems of begging and hunger, you have to abolish the two in your own respective communities. These are Un-Ethiopian, he said. Yes, no Ethiopian should be allowed to beg and to face hunger. I have shown you how to work, why are you failing yourself, there is no excuse to come up with these two issues as a cause to the central government, he explained or implied in his responses. You have to curb them in your own local communities, is his answer to such demands.

This is a good beginning, we shouldn't feel to have been entitled to beg or face hunger, the cause is simply laziness. You have to overcome your own laziness to overcome the two problems.

I would add here a third issue and beg those in the decision making positions to instruct our communities to avoid such a demand in the future: don't complain about lack of peace, while knowing only very well the fact that those disturbing your peace come from your own amidst. Government can never keep peace of every neighborhoods of the whole country, while every and each neighborhood can keep its own peace and curb the problem easily at the grassroots level. We can safely say the fact that those now begging for peace before government officials may have direct or indirect contact to those anti-peace elements and as such should have been aware of the cause of the problem, while they pretend to wish the restoration of peace from the wrong position of government structure. This is another laziness. You should first and foremost expose those anti-peace elements amidst you before begging somebody else from somewhere else.

If the cause of lack of peace is not your own neighborhood but those from the nearby neighborhoods, then expose the the problematic neighborhood to the law enforcement of the country. If they didn't act on your advise or complaints, then expose those neighborhoods as well.

We have to blame those who don't undertake anything to curb the problem more than those who are actually causing it actively taking part in the disturbance of peace.

You have to wake up and abolish laziness, to take the fate of your own destiny into your own hands.