It is to be remembered that Meles Zenawi once during a meeting told Addisu Legesse, the deputy prime minister and minister of agriculture: “an illiterate peasant is more effective than you.” The following report by the Woyanne’s web site, WIC, explains why.
Deputy Premier urges agricultural professionals, leadership to fulfill obligations in efforts to make poverty history
Addis Ababa, June 9 (WIC) – Agricultural professionals and leadership in the field are entrusted with great responsibility to realize the struggle waged to make poverty history, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development underscored.
The Minister Addisu Legesse said at the celebration of May 28 by the employees of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) that agricultural experts and officials in the field shoulder huge responsibility so as achieve the goals of martyrs who scarified their lives to bring down the oppressive regime.
Though the major target of the martyrs is to depose the tyrant Derg regime, creating a prosperous and democratic nation is also their long-term mission from the outset. Promising beginnings have been witnessed in this regard over the past years, he added.
Agricultural professionals and officials in the field need to further enhance ongoing development works in the country by coordinating farmers and pastoralists as well as helping them to make use of agricultural technologies, the Deputy Prime Minister underlined.
The rising cost of living has reportedly been affecting the lives of each and every individual in the country, Addisu said further urging employees of the ministry to play a leading role for the realization of the agricultural policies and strategies.
EPRDF Joint Committee Chairman with MoARD, Dr. Berhe Gebre-Egziabher (a Woyanne who is Addisu’s puppet master), on his part urged all staff of the ministry to be in the forefront in the realization of the Business Process Reengineering (BPR) being implemented by the ministry.