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[temari]

[kibramlak]

ድንቅ ስራ ለ አባ ገዳዮች

[DefendTheTruth]

Ato temari,

is there any reason why you called it "Abiy Square"?

I thought it is called "Friendship Square", isn't it?

But anyway, it is a depressingly sad sight, to put it so and put it mildly. A great deal of architectural work designed to serve people as their recreational sight but an empty space without just few people to be seen using the park. No car, no person moving around, in a city which doesn't have that much other recreational alternatives, just few and less attractive parks in the whole of the city and the country.

Why are people not using it?

People say sometimes that this country is a cursed land, may be not without a reason, I tend to say.

Someone was telling me that few people decided to visit, as a group, the newly refurbished national palace spending millions of money on it, so that people may use it to recreate themselves and also know about their history at the same time, and one of them came out and said that the person was so sad. When people asked back why so sad, simply said the money will going to help the coffer of the ruling PP and the person didn't want to "help it".

At another instance I was also told that people who are wearing masks are considered supporters of the PP and despised as such. So, if you are a good person, then you have to favor COVID-19 over PP, which is nothing more than a curse, in my view.

I know someone in the place where I live and he always talks about "love of his country" when we chat. The same person also tells me passionately about how always he sends money back home for his relatives and family support through a black market at "good price", if not he too may be not dealing with such a market.

This is not an isolated instances, many people of the Ethiopian diaspora do the same, this is a curse.

Many people do visit their homeland and could have spent a bit of their money visiting such parks and help generating more revenue for the park at the same time, so that it can sustain itself and also help in replicating such model to somewhere else in the country to move the country foreward. They don't do that, instead they will lavishly contribute their money for this or that so called opposition agendas, including buying weapons with which their own fellow citizens will be killed somewhere and at some time down the road and other efforts to sabotage the peace building effort in the country.

That is why the likes of Tamagn Beyene can raise more money for any kind of efforts than the PM himself from the diaspora community, when they ask for a fund. The PM pledged to build schools and other kinds of infrastructure, if he got the money, for the country, but the help was not so genereous. This is nothing more than a curse. Even if you don't want to give it to the PM or any other government officials in the country, you can still take an initiativ and help the community that helped you reach where you are today, by giving back. We don't do that, this is a curse in my view.

Even on this Forum there was someone who claimed passionately about demanding a double citizenship in order for him to help his country in something he can do.

Nothing can explain it better than having been cursed.

[temari]

I don't know why you are all over the place before getting your facts straight.
As far as I know the park was not or still not open for the public hence why you see no people.
This should have ended the discussion but you assumed something and went all over.
Don't rush to arrive to a conclusion before getting all the facts.

Anyway, I said Abiy Square just to remind readers what can be achieved in few years even though I agree priorities should have been put somewhere else like drinking water, electricity, transportation etc. Still the PM showed how fast a project can become reality and we should give him credit for that.

Ato temari,

is there any reason why you called it "Abiy Square"?

I thought it is called "Friendship Square", isn't it?

But anyway, it is a depressingly sad sight, to put it so and put it mildly. A great deal of architectural work designed to serve people as their recreational sight but an empty space without just few people to be seen using the park. No car, no person moving around, in a city which doesn't have that much other recreational alternatives, just few and less attractive parks in the whole of the city and the country.

Why are people not using it?

People say sometimes that this country is a cursed land, may be not without a reason, I tend to say.

Someone was telling me that few people decided to visit, as a group, the newly refurbished national palace spending millions of money on it, so that people may use it to recreate themselves and also know about their history at the same time, and one of them came out and said that the person was so sad. When people asked back why so sad, simply said the money will going to help the coffer of the ruling PP and the person didn't want to "help it".

At another instance I was also told that people who are wearing masks are considered supporters of the PP and despised as such. So, if you are a good person, then you have to favor COVID-19 over PP, which is nothing more than a curse, in my view.

I know someone in the place where I live and he always talks about "love of his country" when we chat. The same person also tells me passionately about how always he sends money back home for his relatives and family support through a black market at "good price", if not he too may be not dealing with such a market.

This is not an isolated instances, many people of the Ethiopian diaspora do the same, this is a curse.

Many people do visit their homeland and could have spent a bit of their money visiting such parks and help generating more revenue for the park at the same time, so that it can sustain itself and also help in replicating such model to somewhere else in the country to move the country foreward. They don't do that, instead they will lavishly contribute their money for this or that so called opposition agendas, including buying weapons with which their own fellow citizens will be killed somewhere and at some time down the road and other efforts to sabotage the peace building effort in the country.

That is why the likes of Tamagn Beyene can raise more money for any kind of efforts than the PM himself from the diaspora community, when they ask for a fund. The PM pledged to build schools and other kinds of infrastructure, if he got the money, for the country, but the help was not so genereous. This is nothing more than a curse. Even if you don't want to give it to the PM or any other government officials in the country, you can still take an initiativ and help the community that helped you reach where you are today, by giving back. We don't do that, this is a curse in my view.

Even on this Forum there was someone who claimed passionately about demanding a double citizenship in order for him to help his country in something he can do.

Nothing can explain it better than having been cursed.

[DefendTheTruth]

I don't know why you are all over the place before getting your facts straight.
As far as I know the park was not or still not open for the public hence why you see no people.
This should have ended the discussion but you assumed something and went all over.
Don't rush to arrive to a conclusion before getting all the facts.

Anyway, I said Abiy Square just to remind readers what can be achieved in few years even though I agree priorities should have been put somewhere else like drinking water, electricity, transportation etc. Still the PM showed how fast a project can become reality and we should give him credit for that.

Could you also say what was failing for the park to have been opened officially? You can just provide the day the park opened and the day the video was recorded.

I could be "all over the places" but could you also prove my claims were wrong? I listed a number of them, are these claims wrong?

[temari]

I really don't know why but I know for sure just few weeks ago when the PM conducted an event at the friendship square someone who was one of the organizers told me that the square will be soon open to the public. I was surprised to know that it was still not open to the public. Until now I still don't heard about the square being opened for public.

But I know also Entoto Park is a success! Many locals and tourists visit it and especially on weekends it is full of people. I can imagine the same could be the case for friendship square.

I don't know why you are all over the place before getting your facts straight.
As far as I know the park was not or still not open for the public hence why you see no people.
This should have ended the discussion but you assumed something and went all over.
Don't rush to arrive to a conclusion before getting all the facts.

Anyway, I said Abiy Square just to remind readers what can be achieved in few years even though I agree priorities should have been put somewhere else like drinking water, electricity, transportation etc. Still the PM showed how fast a project can become reality and we should give him credit for that.

Could you also say what was failing for the park to have been opened officially? You can just provide the day the park opened and the day the video was recorded.

I could be "all over the places" but could you also prove my claims were wrong? I listed a number of them, are these claims wrong?