Kinijit delegates Wzt. Bertukan Mideksa, Dr Hailu Araya and Ato Brook Kebede went to Minneapolis yesterday to meet with the party’s estranged chairman, Ato Hailu Shawel. The meeting took place at a Minneapolis hospital. The date and time of the meeting were picked to accommodate Ato Hailu’s treatment schedule.
Before flying to Minneapolis, the delegates were told by Solomon Bekele (a self-proclaimed member of the Shaleqa gang) that Ato Hailu’s son, Anteneh, would be the contact person who would take them to the hospital where Ato Hailu is receiving treatment.
On Thursday morning, upon arriving in Minneapolis, the delegates called Ato Anteneh from the airport. Anteneh told them to call him when they get closer to the hospital.
They called him when they arrived near the hospital. He gave them a number they can use to reach his father. They made several calls, but no body would answer the phone.
The delegates called Anteneh again and told him about the difficulty they are facing in reaching Ato Hailu. He promised to call them back after he talked to his father or his handlers.
A few minutes later he called them back and told them that he, too, could not reach Ato Hailu.
The delegates did not give up. They asked Anteneh to tell them the exact place where he is at. He was not willing to give that information right away.
After wasting three and half hours trying to reach Ato Hailu, finally the handlers (Dr Taye’s agents) allowed them to meet him — with only less than twenty minutes left before they had to rush back to the airport.
When the delegates entered Ato Hailu’s room, they gave him flowers, and he received them warmly. After exchanging greetings, they got right down to business.
Since they had already wasted over 3 hours trying to find Ato Hailu, they had only 15 minutes with him. But they were very important 15 minutes, for it was their first face to face meeting since they left Addis Ababa. They asked Ato Hailu to give them unrestricted and direct access to him, and told him that they want to meet with him again as soon as possible for further discussion. Ato Hailu agreed.
Both Ato Hailu and the delegates where in good spirits as they left the hospital room.
But this morning the good spirit turned into disappointment once again when the delegates saw in a web site (kinijit.org) that is controlled by Ato Mogus Brook this (click here to read).
It is clear that Taye, Mogus, Yoseph and cohorts are bent on keeping the leadership crisis in Kinijit going as long as they can. But the Kinijit delegates’ patience is slowly bearing fruit. If they some how manage to spend enough time with Ato Hailu, there is a good chance that they can bring him back to the Kinijit leadership fold.
The Shaleqa-Taye-EPRP gang has organized a fund raising event in Washington DC on Sunday, Oct. 14. We cannot wait to be there and confront this thieves who stole our money, and now took our chairman hostage.