Open Letter To Prof. Merera Gudina of former OFC and current OFD
Posted: 28 May 2024, 16:32
Dear the good Professor,
I think to have respected you for your principled stand in my view when it comes to defending justice and respect for human lives in your hitherto political engagement in our common country. People had respected you for standing for their rights and justice for all. I still remember how people of Ambo and its environs came out in droves and made a ceremonial reception after you were released from jail in the run-up to the current change. You were accorded a figure head reception by those communities.
The same communities that accorded you that kind of reception and hero’s welcome are facing today unprecedented and unparalleled destruction and man-made mayhem in their own homes and villages. I don’t think this news will come to you as a surprise or something an exaggeration. People are dying (being murdered), are robbed of their possessions, are tortured, are intimidated in their own homeland, and facing unprecedented level of suffering, as you must have also known well.
But why should be the main question, for all of us here in my view.
Did you get an answer? Don’t you think this level of suffering of the farmers and the people of the countryside has risen to unprecedented level in your own once constituency, who gave you a mandate to represent them and speak for them in the national parliament?
Granted I can’t claim to have known all the things you have personally undertaken so far in this regard in all of your public engagements. There are many times that I came across your interviews with media outlets of different kinds but missed in all of them an occasion you used to condemn such mass suffering of our people in their own homeland, except the usual use of political gimmick to label accusations against the government for not granting power to all those demanded it. The government could be blamed, but the blame must be based on a tangible reason. Do you have any tangible reason that the government is causing such a suffering?
At the same time the suffering of our mass has reached unbearable level at this time by those who claimed to liberate them and who have failed so far to effect anything meaningful against those they claimed to fight. The purpose of the “fight” has obviously shifted from fighting for the people to fighting the people. They rob, they kill, mayhem, torture, and all things evil on the innocent people they once told us to fight for.
And Prof. Merera, what are you waiting for before coming out and unequivocally condemn such practice and expose the culprits of such a savagery?
If not now, then when are you going to speak for the people? If speaking for the people is not your major concern, then what is the purpose of your political engagement for over 50 years now?
Today the poor farmer is suffering for none of its own gilt, but his suffering will come back and haunt those who are bringing on him such a mayhem and destruction on him and those who are just staying on the sideline and looking at it silently, including me and you, will pay for it, I feel.
It is high time if you care for your own political credibility in the future to use the high office you have and say enough is enough. We can’t afford to stay on the sideline and be a mere spectator anymore. This is my advice to you, the good Prof. for now.
I think to have respected you for your principled stand in my view when it comes to defending justice and respect for human lives in your hitherto political engagement in our common country. People had respected you for standing for their rights and justice for all. I still remember how people of Ambo and its environs came out in droves and made a ceremonial reception after you were released from jail in the run-up to the current change. You were accorded a figure head reception by those communities.
The same communities that accorded you that kind of reception and hero’s welcome are facing today unprecedented and unparalleled destruction and man-made mayhem in their own homes and villages. I don’t think this news will come to you as a surprise or something an exaggeration. People are dying (being murdered), are robbed of their possessions, are tortured, are intimidated in their own homeland, and facing unprecedented level of suffering, as you must have also known well.
But why should be the main question, for all of us here in my view.
Did you get an answer? Don’t you think this level of suffering of the farmers and the people of the countryside has risen to unprecedented level in your own once constituency, who gave you a mandate to represent them and speak for them in the national parliament?
Granted I can’t claim to have known all the things you have personally undertaken so far in this regard in all of your public engagements. There are many times that I came across your interviews with media outlets of different kinds but missed in all of them an occasion you used to condemn such mass suffering of our people in their own homeland, except the usual use of political gimmick to label accusations against the government for not granting power to all those demanded it. The government could be blamed, but the blame must be based on a tangible reason. Do you have any tangible reason that the government is causing such a suffering?
At the same time the suffering of our mass has reached unbearable level at this time by those who claimed to liberate them and who have failed so far to effect anything meaningful against those they claimed to fight. The purpose of the “fight” has obviously shifted from fighting for the people to fighting the people. They rob, they kill, mayhem, torture, and all things evil on the innocent people they once told us to fight for.
And Prof. Merera, what are you waiting for before coming out and unequivocally condemn such practice and expose the culprits of such a savagery?
If not now, then when are you going to speak for the people? If speaking for the people is not your major concern, then what is the purpose of your political engagement for over 50 years now?
Today the poor farmer is suffering for none of its own gilt, but his suffering will come back and haunt those who are bringing on him such a mayhem and destruction on him and those who are just staying on the sideline and looking at it silently, including me and you, will pay for it, I feel.
It is high time if you care for your own political credibility in the future to use the high office you have and say enough is enough. We can’t afford to stay on the sideline and be a mere spectator anymore. This is my advice to you, the good Prof. for now.