Deliberate Distortions, Misconceptions, or both ?

 

Deliberate Distortions, Misconceptions, or both ?

                                                                                      ( By Tsegaye Ararssa   )

In the discordant noises around Finfinnee and the Oromo rights there, there are distortions that recur, often riding high on popular misconceptions about some basic facts regarding the city, the federal system, the constitution, etc. Below, I will raise some of them to help enhance our clarity on the matter.

1. Finfinnee is often portrayed, wrongly, as a Federal Territory. It is not. Finfinnee, as a capital city of the Federal Government (Art 49(1)), is only the seat of the offices of the Federal Government. In other words, it is the site from which the federal government and its officials operate. It is an Oromo city in which the Head Office, as it were, of the Federal Government is located. Incidentally, it is important to remember that there is no land constitutionally designated as a federal district or territory in the Ethiopian federation. Legally speaking, there is no territory that the Federal Government claims as "naturally" its own until it is so designated by law. This means the Federal Government does not own Finfinnee or any territory anywhere in Ethiopia except those that are legally transferred to it by law.

2. Many people mistakenly think that the federal government can rightfully legislate for the city just because it is the seat of its government. This mistaken belief is the reason that the (arguably unconstitutional) Revised Family Code is imposed, by default, on Finfinnee and Dirree Dhawa (when it was realized, soon after it was passed in Parliament, that such a code cannot apply in the states because the states are not subjected to the legislative jurisdiction of the federal government on family matters). This should make it clear to all that the Federal Government can not directly issue legislations for the city, as that task belongs to the city council (and the state the city belongs to, i.e, Oromia).

3. Many people wrongly assume that Finfinnee is a (city) state. Yes, there was a time when it was a self-governing region in its own right (1991-1994). But after the country was constitutionally 'reorganized' (albeit fakely) as a federation in 1995, the city is not a self-standing state. It is an Oromo city that serves as the seat of the Federal as well as the Oromia Government. Constitutionally speaking, it is a city whose population is entitled to a measure of self-governance within the framework of its own city charter. Legally, its charter is subordinate to the constitutions of Ethiopia and of Oromia.

4. There are also people who mistakenly think that the working language of the city is (automatically) Amharic (because of the wrong assumption that it is a federal city). Such people go on to assert that making Afaan Oromoo the working language of the city violates the constitution. It is important to remember that the Federal constitution is silent about the language of the city. Given the city belongs to Oromia, the working language of wider Oromia is automatically, or naturally, the working language of the city because this is sanctioned by the Oromia Constitution. Under the Charter, be it out of ignorance or arrogance, only Amharic is made the working language of the city. This neglect of Afaan Oromo in the Charter and extra-constitutional singling out of Amharic as a working language in a state whose language is Afaan Oromoo is of course unconstitutional seen in the light of Oromia's constitution. It is this kind of unconstitutionality and illegal linguistic displacement that should be corrected through the so called "special interest" law and subsequent constitutional amendment.

5. There are many, especially in the Ethiopian(ist) right, who maintain that the people of Finfinnee are denied representation in the House of Federation (HoF). This is based on the double misconception about the HoF and the "substance" of the inhabitants of Finfinnee. The first misconception confuses the HoF with the Senate. According to the Ethiopian constitution, the HOF is not a Senate. In fact, one can refer to it as the "upper house" only as a matter of speaking (or of habit) as it is anything but an upper house of a legislative body. Its raison d^etre is representation of "nations, nationalities, and peoples" in the interpretive task of adjudicating disputes over collective rights to self-determination (political, cultural, territorial, and economic). The second misconception relates to the "nature" of the inhabitants. Finfinnee's inhabitants, being predominantly settlers that came from all corners of the country (and legally not constituting a "nation, nationality, and people" as per the definition of art 39(5)), have no ethno-national identity to be represented in the HoF (other than the ones represented by the politicians from their homelands). Nor do they have any demands of ethno-cultural justice [language, culture, identity, self-determination, secession, etc] that they aspire to process in the HoF (other than those protected for them by their representatives from their homelands).

Some of the above (and many other) distortions are caused by misunderstandings complemented by underdeveloped political culture that also doesn't comprehend federalism. (Some of it is already symptomatic of the weak legitimacy the federalism and the constitutional frame thereof command.) A large part of it is however the result of deliberate distortion by a political prejudice clouded by moral blindness. Whatever the cause, it is not an excuse to rail against a people's God-given rights to their own city and their identity therein.

#FinfinneeisOromia, #HandsoffOromia, #OromoRevolution

Why EPRDF opted for a policy of Mutual self-annihilation on Addis Ababa ?

Why EPRDF opted for a policy of Mutual self-annihilation on Addis Ababa ?

                                                                                            ( Dr Birhanemeskel Abebe Segni )

In a tragedy akin to the Treaty of Wichale of May 2, 1889, the Ethiopian federal government is repudiating the self-governance rights of the Oromo people of themselves and their territory by trying to separate Addis Ababa from Oromia.

This is very problematic and evil by design which will undermine social harmony and peaceful coexistence among Ethiopians, and maybe even might lead to Ethiopia’s disintegration as a nation.

The issue is very simple for every living human being to understand. If Oromo lands where other Ethiopian ethnic groups settle in large number and live are snatched and taken away from the Oromo people under the pretext of Oromos have become minority in their own city or land or Oromos cannot govern other Ethiopian ethnic groups (which comes only out of the heart of a group who has extreme hatred and disrespect for the Oromo people), then, why on Earth will the Oromos allow for other ethnic groups to come and live among them in the first place?

This malicious and evil policy driven by shortsighted land grab agenda by few will force the Oromo people to adopt xenophobic attitude or not to allow anymore for other Ethiopian ethnic groups to live anywhere among the Oromo people. That is natural human instinct particularly when it is clear that the policy is not to live together with the Oromo people but to slowly take Oromo people's land by eliminating the Oromo.

This is not nuclear science. All Ethiopians who really care about Ethiopia and harmony among Ethiopians should just close their eyes for a minute and think about it. It is a nightmarish situation. I don’t understand why EPRDF is doing this against the Oromo people and the Ethiopian people unless the intention is something evil and sinister.

I strongly advise EPRDF and the Ethiopian government to immediately restore the status of Addis Ababa as one of the Oromia cities under Oromia jurisdiction, and decide upon the special interest of the federal government in Addis Ababa.

Imagine what will happen if the same situation is contemplated on Gonder, Bahir Dar, Mekele or Awassa? Will the Amhara or Tigray people sit idle?

How long could the EPRDF continue disrespecting the Oromo people and for what end?! If the EPRDF as a group thinks the Oromo people will not assert their rights in their own country and on their own land? Then, the EPRDF has little understanding of the Oromo people and the Ethiopian history! I don’t know why this policy of mutual self-destruction become a top priority for the EPRDF when there are many other policy options available to it?

The Question of Finfinnee: Beyond the Language of Favor or Appeasement

The Question of Finfinnee: Beyond the Language of Favor or Appeasement

                                                                                        ( By Tsegaye Ararsa  )

With the re-emergence of the talk about the so called Oromia's "special" interest law, the debate is raging in various corners on the identity, name, administration, language(s), etc of the city. In some circles, this debate is rife with the anxiety about the relationship between the Oromo and the city in the light of the anticipated relatively weightier presence of the Oromo in the city. The anxiety also betrays a particular kind of fear informed by the history of othering ideologies, discourses, and practises that effectively distanced the Oromo from the city while they are still there.

The othering practice was materially effected through military, political, legal, and administrative measures to dispossess, dislocate, and displace the Oromo.

In 130 years since the city's incorporation into the Ethiopian empire of late 19th c, the Oromo became a minority in their own city currently constituting only 19 % of the city's total population.

The name of the city was changed into Addis Ababa. The names of the villages and suburbs that constitute what has today become the 'Greater Finfinnee area' have also been replaced by Amharic names or some disfigured versions of the original Oromo names. The sites of public religious/spiritual, legal/adjudication, and political/legislative et al proceedings were transferred to sites of the garrison forces and the various service giving institutions that followed them. This and the near total destruction of the forest and natural environment has disfigured the city beyond recognition.

With the settlement of the new forces of conquest and their accompaniments and with legal and lawless eviction of the Oromo, the demography quickly started to change. With the city becoming the capital city of the empire, more and more settlers started to dwell in the city thereby diversifying its ethnic set up and configuration. Along with the change of demography came the change of culture, language, and identity.

The official privilege of a particular culture, language, and identity and acts of variously erasing the Oromo culture, language (Afaan Oromoo), and the repositories of identity (such as history, narratives, and memory) removed the latter from the city. Soon, these aspects of Oromummaa were exiled, physically, into the peripheries of the city and, temporally, into the past of the Ethiopian modernity, alias known as "Zemenawinet." With the renaming of places and designating sites, squares, streets, buildings, bridges, and schools almost exclusively serving to memorialize and monumentalize the settlers, the displacement of the Oromo was nigh complete.

Having thus pushed out the Oromo, the city styled itself 'modern' and thus different and distant from Oromos and the wider Oromia. The current legal excision that made it outside the politico- administrative jurisdiction of Oromia (since 1991) is a continuation of the tradition of alienating the city from Oromia only signifying and dramatizing the more violent practice of othering the Oromo from the polity (thereby excluding them from the city's and the wider country's political space).

The recent practices of aggressive land grabbing and massive evictions that penetrated territories beyond the confines of the city (typified by the Master Plan) provoked a massive popular anger densely saturated with deeper historic (political) grievances caused by the trauma of dispossession, dislocation, and exile (in one's own home).

When the resistance to the Master Plan morphed into the #OromoRevolution that shook the regime to its core, the TPLF/EPRDF regime started to talk about the need to legislate on the "Special interest' of Oromia, if only to appease the resisting youth and to calm them down as it also strives to remain in power.

To anyone who pays attention, the discourse on the special interest sounds more like a favour, a preferential treatment, the regime is according to Oromia and Oromos. To speak of a list of special interest to be granted to Oromia in what is its own land by the settlers already speaks volumes about how the guest (the settlers) has turned itself into the host and made a guest out of the host (the Oromos).

Some Modest Proposals

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It has to be stated clearly to all that the "special interest" is not a favor granted to Oromia. If anything, it implicitly 'validates' the settlers as having the authority to decide what Oromia deserves to get from them (who in actual fact have nothing to give as 'usurpers' of what is actually Oromia's).

Similarly, it is imperative to state explicitly that it is not favor that Oromia is demanding when it asserts its natural and constitutional rights over the city. It is seeking restoration into what is its own.

Seen in this light, it seems to me, anything done on Oromia's right over Addis Ababa should clearly spell out, at least, the following:

1. Finfinnee is an Oromo city. It belongs to Oromia. The Oromo ownership of the city shall be recognized in official words of acknowledgement of the original owners of the land in all public proceedings.

2. Oromia is the beneficiary of the "special interest" clause of the constitution. Any "special interests" to be stipulated are primarily the interests of the State of Oromia.

3. Finfinnee is the capital city of Oromia. As such, it shall have the right to build offices as necessary for its services and construct buildings for schools, cultural centers, and community centers. It shall also build places of residence for staff. It shall have free access to land as appropriate.

4. Finfinnee shall continue to serve as the seat of the Federal Government until such time as new capital city is designated or established through negotiation among the members of the Federation.

5. The city’s indigenous name, Finfinnee, shall be the official name of the city alongside “Addis Ababa,” an appellation imposed on it by the Empire in 1886.

6. Afaan Oromoo shall be the working language of the city as it is in the wider Oromia. In addition to Afaan Oromoo, Amharic (being the language that is currently widely spoken in the city) shall also be a working language of the metropolitan city government.

7 The Finfinnee metropolitan area shall have its own democratically elected government. The city's government shall be constituted and in accordance with the country's constitution, the electoral laws, the city's charter, and other relevant laws. The operation of the government shall also be guided by the principles of the country's higher laws, Oromia's constitution, its own City Charter, Oromia's Urban Governance Laws, and other laws of urban regulation.

8. The city government shall have the duty to inform, consult, and seek advice from the Government of the State of Oromia on all matters of common concern.

9. The Government shall be accountable to the State of Oromia. On issues extending to the wider Oromia, the city government and the government of Oromia shall exercise power of co-administration. There shall also be schemes of inter-city legal cooperation on matters of crime, forest and natural eco-management.

10. The constitutional human rights of all residents of the city shall be fully respected. In particular, they shall have full measure of self-government at the municipal level.

11. The rights of non-Oromo residents to mother tongue education shall be respected. Details shall be regulated by the directives of the Education Bureau. The culture, language, and heritage of Oromos in the city shall be promoted and properly memorialized through designating buildings, squares, places, streets, Halls, statues that monumentalize important Oomo suburbs, historical events, personalities, etc.

12. The government of Oromia shall have a reasonable share of the revenues raised in the city.

Qubee jijjiiruf sababni nama amansiisuu danda’u (justifying reason) sadarkaa amma irra jirru kanas ta’ee fuulduratti jiraachuu hin danda’u

Qubee jijjiiruf sababni nama amansiisuu danda’u (justifying reason) sadarkaa amma irra jirru kanas ta’ee fuulduratti jiraachuu hin danda’u



                                                                                                   

Dabalata: Sababoota jijjiiramuun Qubee mormamuuf

Qubee jijjiiruf sababni nama amansiisuu danda’u (justifying reason) sadarkaa amma irra jirru kanas ta’ee fuulduratti jiraachuu hin danda’u. Sababoota gara garaaf sirna barnootaa (curriculum) jijjiirun ni danda’ama ta’a. Qubee jijjiirun garuu abjuu yaadamuu hin qabne. Akkuma namni hedduun deddeebisee ibse, amma kan jijjiirame sirna barnootaa osoo hin taane Qubeedha. Kanaafuu osoo sababoota jijjiiramuun qubee mormamuuf hin ilaalin wantoota jijjiiraman ilaalun misha.

Maaltu jijjiirame?

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Namoonni hedduun “tartiiba Qubeetu jijjiirame” jedhanii dubbatu. Akka kootti garuu tartiibatu jijjiirame osoo hin taane tartiia Qubeetu bade. Wanti tokko tartiiba isaatu jijjiirame jechuuf jalqaba tartiibni jiraachuu qaba; ka’uumsa fi dhuma jechuudha. Amma kan ta’e garuu Qubeen eessaa ka’ee maal irratti akka dhaabatu beekun hin danda’amu. “L” irraa eegala haa jedhamu malee achii ka’ee Qubee kam irratti akka dhumu hin beekamu. “L” irraa kan eegalu barnoota Qubeeti malee tartiiba qubee miti. Akka kitaaba kutaa 1 sanatti “L”n torban tokkoffaa semisteera 1ffaa keessatti barsiifama jedha malee Qubeewwan A/Oromoo keessa jiran “L” irraa ka’amee akka tartiibeffamu hin kaa’u. Bakki itti tartiibni Qubee kanumti jijjiirame jedhame sunillee ta’u itti barsiifamu hin jiru. Barsiisan gaafa jalqaba kutaa eegalu “L” barsiisuu eegala malee tartiiba Qubee “L” irraa ka’ee “A M G …. “ jedhee barsiisuu hin danda’u. Yoo barsiisan fedhiidhuma isaatin illee “A B C D…” nan barsiisa jedhe hin danda’u; sababni isaa “torban jalqabaa “L” barsiisi” jedhamee kitaabuma mataa isaatin sagantaan baheeraf waan ta’eef. Barsiisichis Lesson plan isaa kanarratti hundaa’ee baafata waan ta’eef. Yoo akkasitti deemuu baate immoo itti gaafatama waan ta’eef. Kanaafi Qubeen tartiibni isaa ni bade ykn wal borce kan jedhamuuf. Gama biraatin immoo amala Qubee A/Oromoo kan ta’an kan akka dubbifamaa, dubbachiiftuu, sagalee laafaa, jabaa, dheeraa, gabaabaa, hudhaa, qubee dachaa haalli itti barsiifaman hin jiru (yoo jiraates heddu wal xaxaafi cimaadha).

Dabalataan wanti namni hedduun bira darbu tokko, jijjiiramni kan godhame tartiiba Qubee irrattii fi kutaaba kutaa 1 qofa irratti osoo hin taane qabiyyee kitaaba kutaa 1-8 irratti. Erga barataan kutaa 2ffaatti dubbisuu danda’ee kitaabonni afaanii kamuu mata dureewwan gara garaa jalatti dubbisa ijoollee barsiisu jedhamee yaadama.Dubbisni (passage) sun immoo waa’ee aadaa, duudhaa, seenaa, eenyummaa fi biyya ummata afaanicha baratuu calaqqisiisa.Amma kitaabota kutaa 2 ol jiran irratti jijjiiramni raawwate qabiyyee dubbisa kanaa jijjiirus ni dabalata. Kan duriifi kan ammaa qabiyyeedhan gargari jechuudha. Kitaabonni A/Oromoo nuti kutaa gad aanatti ittiin baranne waa’ee aadaa Oromoo, seenaa, afaanii, amantaa Oromoo fi Oromiyaa akkaan nu barsiisan. Loqodoota afaan Oromoo keessa jiran illee akka waltinaa’aniif dubbisni kun gahee guddaa qaba. Kitaabota ammaa kana keessatti wantoonni kun hanga ta’uu qaban hin calaqqisan. Har’a qofa osoo hin taane kitaabni Afaan Oromoo kitaabota kam caala yeroo yeroon jijjiiramaa ture.Fakkeenyaf yeroon ani kutaa 7/8 ffaa baradhu kitaabni tokko semisteera 1 qofa ittiin barannee jijjiirame.Maalifi jennaan ijoollee “amala balleessa” nuun jedhan.

Wal borcuun tartiiba Qubee fi kitaaba A/Oromoo maalif mormama?

Sababoota heddutu jiru. Isaan keessaa muraasni:

Hidhata Qubeen Oromoo waliin 

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Qubeen “A B C D …. “Ummata Oromootif eenyummaadha.Qor-qalbii ummataatin walitti hidhamaadha.Qubeen quba keenya. Akkuma qubni keenya bakka jiruu buqqa’ee bakka biraa akka dhaabbatu hin fuune qubeen keenya bakka isaa waliin borcuun hin danda’amu; kana gochuuf yaalun immoo yakka qaama namaa hir’isuuti; nama ajjeesudhas. Qubeefi kitaabonni Afaan Oromoo nuyiif huccuudha; huccuu Oromummaa.Erga Oromoon huccuu Oromummaa isaa dhabee qullaatti hafuu eegalee Dhaloonni Qubee kan Oromummaa isaa deebisee ofitti uffate karaa Qubeefi kitaaba Afaan Oromootini. Seenaa siyaasa Oromoo keessattis bakka addaa qaba.Lubbuu beektota hedduutu itti darbe. Lubbuu Dr. Hayilee Fidaa kan gandillee akka ergamaa waaqatti yaaddutu itti darbe. Kanaafuu Qubeen siidaa wareegamtootati.

Jijjiirama amma godhameen Qubee baruufi barsiisun heddu cimaa ta’uu

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Ogeessa afaanii ta’uu dhabus biyyuma fedhettuu, afaanuma kam keessattiyyuu otoo tartiiba qubee hin barsiisin afaan barsiisun hin danda’amu.Namni kutaa tokko gaafa eegalu sagalee fi jecha barachuun dura tartiiba, maqaa fi boca qubeelee addaan baasuu qaba. Amma kun hafuun isaa A/Oromoo fuulduratti akka afaan baratamuu hin dandeenye ta’u isa taasisa. Barachuun haa hafuutiii barsiisunuu akkaan cimaadha.Odeeffannoon ani barsiisota Afaan Oromoo kitaabicha barsiisuf yaalan irraa dhagayes kanuma mirkaneessa.

Sababni dhiyaatu sirrii miti

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Jijjiirama amma godhame kanaaf warri gocha kana raawwatan sababni isaan dhiyeessan, “ijoollen qubee dubbisuu dadhabde, kanaaf immoo sababni akkaataa qubeen itti barsiifamuu fi tarreefameedha” kan jedhu. Dubbiin kun dhara qofa osoo hin ta’in arrabsoodha. Waan kana namni hedduun waan deebii itti kenneef hin dheeressu. Dhugaan jiru garuu tartiibni Qubee A/Oromoo kan Ingiliffaa waliin kan wal fakkaatudha. Addunyaan qaroome waggoota kumaatamaaf kanumaan baree barsiisa.Namoonni hedduun Qubeen barreessuu kan baran beekumsa isaanii Ingiliffa keessatti qaban fayyadamaniiti, barsisaa malee kan qubeen barreessuu baraniif. Fakkeenya qabatamaa tokko isinitti himuuf Wasiillan/Abbeerawwan 4 kan bara Dargii Amaariffaafi Ingiliffaan hanga xiqqoo baratan nan qaba. Afran isaanituu erga Dargiin kufee mana barnootatti hin deebine.Garuu beekumsa xiqqoo Qubee Ingiliffaa qabaniin gargaarsa barsisaa tokko malee Qubeen barreessuu ofiin of barsiisanii itti fayyadamaa jiru. Kuni dhugaadha, jarreen kun lubbuun jiru.

Rakkoon Ijoollen Qubee barreessufi dubbisuu dadhabdeef sababa biraa qaba: kan akka dandeettii barsiisaa, imaammata barnootaa, qulqullinaa hanqina meeshaalee barnootaa ….. Qorannoon isaan nutti himanis kanuma agarsiisa.Rakkoon dubbisuufi barreessuu dadhabuu amala Qubeefi tartiiba isaatin wal hin qabatu jechuudha.Osoo akkas ta’ee namoonni gaafa Qubeen barachuun eegalamu ittiin barachuu eegalan Qubee hin baran ture, isayyuu yeroo barsiisan A/Oromoon leenjii digrii ykn dippiloomaa fudhate hin jirretti. Akka fakkeenyatti ani bara 1987 (E.C) yeroon mana barumsaa galu kan Qubee na barsiisan namoota ji’a 2/3 leenjii fudhatani. Akkasumayyuu ta’ee Qubeen barreessuu baruuf ji’oota 4 caala natti hin fudhanne.Seeran qubeessunis hedduu keenya hin rakkisu ture.Kanaafuu, bakka rakkoon jiru dhiisanii waan biraa irratti fuulleffachuun sirrii miti.

Seera-dhabeessumaa gocha kanaa

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Jijjiiramni afaan dhalootaa irratti godhamu kan ilaallatu abbaa afaanichaati. Kara deeman fedhe itti goree namaaf tolchuu hin danda’u.Jijjiirama afaan dhalootaa irratti godhamu kamuu (yoo barbaachise) raawwachuun dura abbaan afaanichaa irratti marii’atuu qaba; beektota isaatin ilaalamuu qaba. Amma kan ta’e garuu waan rifachiisadha. Jalqabatti, qorannoo jijjiirama godhame kanaaf sababa ta’e kan gaggeesse USAID kan jedhamu kan mootummaa Ameerikaan, keessumaa immoo alkallattiinis ta’u dhaabbata basaasaa Ameericaa, CIA’n to’atamuudha. Dhaabbata kana akka ummata Oromootti amantaa irraa dhabuuf sababoota gahaatu jira. Kana bira darbees USAID’n kana kan raawwate Ministeera Barnootaa waliin ta’eeti. Sababni Ebassay’n Ameerikaa gocha kana tumseefis shakkii keenya ol dabala.Dabalataan, akka heera mootummaatti dhamma afaan dhalootaa dhiisatii imaammnni barnootaa sadarkaa 1ffaatuu naannoo ilaallata. Amma garuu kan ta’e hojichi guutummaan oggansa Ministeera barnootatiin kan gaggeeffameedha. Ministeera kana waan hin amanneef heera mootummaa cabsuu qofaaf osoo hin taane sababoota heddutu jira. BBO hanga ta’e harka keessaa qabus fedhii ummataa nieega jedhaniif guutummaatti akka itti hin amanne waan heddutu nama taasisa.

Ministeerri Barnootaa afaan dhalootaa irratti waan takka illee dubbachuuf bu’uura heerafi seeraa hin qabu.Garuu akkuma agarre abbummaadhan hojicha oggane.Qola kitaabitaas yoo ilaalle abbaan kitaabichaa Ministeera Barnootaa ta’uu isaa agarsiisa.Kuni daba.Seenaa imaammata ummata Oromoo Afaan isaa dagachiisanii “Amaaressuu” (assimilate) gochuu jedhu keessatti qoodni Ministeera Barnootaa ol aanadha. Fakkeenyaf, bara 1933tti gorsa Tedla Haile irratti hundaa’un karaa nama bara sana Ministeera Barnootaa turee, Sahile Tsedalu jedhamuutin “Afaan Oromoo dabalatee afaanotni warra ‘haramanee’ badanii Amaariffaan bakka buufamuu qabu” jedhee imaammata barnootaa kan baase Ministeera Barnootaa har’aa kana. Kanaafuu, ammas taanan ijoolen Oromoo haala amma dhiyaate kanaan Qubee barachuu gaafa dadhabde “Qubeen Laatinii rakkoo waan qabuuf kan saabatiin akka barsiifamu” jedhee USAID waliin qorannoo nuuf gaggeessuu danda’a. Kuni shakkii kooti, duuba waan kanaa yoon ilaalu. Kanaafuu, gochi kun “Maaster Pilaanii Amaariffaa” ta’uu danda’a.

Namoota BBO keessa oggansa irra jiranis yoo ta’e sababni shakkamaniif ni jira. Itti Aantota Itti gaafatmaa BBO afur jiran keessaa namoonni sadii saba biraa ta’uu isaanitu himama. Kun shakkii namaa ol kaasa.

Dhuma irratti namoonni qophii kanaa keessatti qooda fudhatan karaa dorgommiifi beekumsa Afaan Oromoo irratti qabaniin osoo hin taane wal beekumsaafi hiriyyummaan kan waamamaniidha. Akkan shakkutti namoonni kun kan filatamaniif namoota qarshiidhan Oromoo gurgurachuu danda’an jedhamaniis kan waamaman ta’uu mala. Sababni isaa namoonni waan kana keessatti qooda fudhatan qarshii ofii kiishatti naqatanii akka nama homaa hin argineetti callisuun isaanii eenyummaa isaanii waan mul’isuuf. Hojii guddoo akkasii dalaganii “ani hin beeku, kan kutaa sanaan barreesse, kan kanaan barreese” jedhanii waakkachuun waan nama amansiisu miti. Otoo isaan jiranuu dabni guddaan kun Qubee irratti haggaamamuun isaa boruu Oromootif illee nama yaaddessa. Wanti hangas jabaan ummata jalaa dhokatee turuun isaa heddu nama yaachisa. Warra qophicha keessatti qooda fudhate qofa osoo hin taane akkuma ummataattiyyuu waan kana osoo hin beekin hangas turuun nama yaaddessa. Kun waan sadii natti mul’ise.Tokko, Oromoon qarshiidhan Oromoo guutummaatti gurguru jiraachuu isaa.Lama, wanti nuti hin beekne dabni jajjabduun heddu deemaa jiraachuu akka dandeessu.Sadii, Oromoon ummataaf dhimmamu jaarmayaalee murteessoo keessa jiraachuu dhabuu isaati.

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Walumaagalatti, dubbiin qubee dubbii jabduu waan taatef oggansi OPDO haaran kitaabota qophaa’an kana fooyyessuu osoo hin taane guutummaatti hafanii ijoollen kitaabota kana dura turaniin akka baratan murteessun dirqama natti fakkaata. Sababni isaa waan namoonni isaan dura turan bukeessan defend gochuu dhiisanii waan ummanni jedhutti gurra qabuun faayidaa isaanif qaba jedheen yaada.

Horaa bulaa!!!!!

Tartiiba Qubeelee Afaan Oromoo jijjiiruudhaan kufaatii qulqullina barnootaa dandamachiisuun hin danda’amu.

Tartiiba Qubeelee Afaan Oromoo jijjiiruudhaan kufaatii qulqullina barnootaa dandamachiisuun hin danda’amu

                                                                                       ( Barreessaan : Abonketi Fayissa)

Oromiyaa keessatti sababa qulqullinni barnootaa kufeef, barattootni sadarkaa tokkoffaa Afaan Oromoo dubbisuu fi barreessuu dadhaban; kanaaf immoo furmaatni barbaachisaan tartiiba qubee afaanichaa jijjiiruudha jetti egaa warri OPDO. Kufaatiin erga uumamee booda sababa sababa hin taane tarreessuun hin barbaachisu. Duraan dursa sababoota kufaatii qulqullina barnootaa kana dhugaatti addaan baasuutu barbaachisa. Ani barnoota sadarkaa tokkoffaa Afaan Oromootiinan baradhe. Ammas mana barnootaa Oromiyaa keessa jiru tokkottin barsiisaa ta’ee hojjetaa jira. Hanqina dandeettiin dubbisuu fi barreessuu barattoota manneen barnootaa Oromiyaa keessa jiran mudateera jedhamaa jiran kanaaf sababootni dhugaa ta’an hedduun (kanneen siyaasaan hanqaaqaman dabalatee) kanneen dur yeroo aniyyu baradhu irraa eegalanii hanga ammaatti akka aadaa manneen barnoota Oromiyaa hanga fakkaataniitti wal harkisanii deemaa jiran keessa muraasa isaanii mee walumaan haa ilaallu.

1) Manneen barnootaa hedduu (kanuma ani amma keessa jiru kana dabalateeyyu) barsiisonni saayinsii barnoota Afaan Oromoo sirriitti baratanii gahumsaan eebbifaman yommuu gara manneen barnootaatti ramadaman OPDO n akka diinatti ilaalti. Kunis jalqabbiin afaan keenya, Afaan Oromootiin barachuu gumaata ABO fi hayyootni Oromoo hedduun irratti wareegamanii dhiiga isaaniitiin nuuf kennan waan ta’eef (OPDO’n ofii isheetiif gootas hayyuus hin qabdu), barsiisota kana garee ABO’tti ramaduudhaan dhugaa jiru ilmaan Oromoo barsiisu jedhanii shakku. Kanaafuu, bakkoota hedduutti barsiisota ciccimoo ta’an Afaan Oromoo akka hin barsiisne hojiirraa ari’aa; kaan immoo gosa barnoota biroo akka barsiisan dirqamaan godhamaa ture, jiras. Afaan Oromoon egaa barsiisota ( waan daree barnootaa seenaniif qofa namoota maqaaf barsiisaa jedhamaniin) fi waan ofitti amanamuummaa hin qabneef qofa OPDO’f amanamoo ta’aniin barsiifama. Namni ofiifuu sirriitti barreessuu fi dubbisuu hin dandeenye egaa afuura qulqulluu(?)tiin barataa eebbisee qulqullina barnootaa fidaaree?

2) Daree barnootaa tokko keessatti giddu-galeessaan barattoota 80 olitu barata. Kun immoo barsiisaan tokkichi/barsiistuu tokkittiin turtii wayitii tokkoo daqiiqaa 40-45 keessatti qabiyyee barnoota guyyuchaa barsiisee, hojii daree kennee, hanqina barattoota kanaa sirreessuudhaan guutuu mitiiti, maqaa isaanii hanga akaakayyuutti waamee fixuufiyyu ulfaataadha. Egaa barsiisuun akka qeesii habashaa bishaan facaasanii jamaa walitti qabame kana waliin gahuudhaaree?

3) Dhugaa dubbachuuf taanaan ofuma mataa koo irraa ka’ee yoon dubbadhe, ani barsiisaa ta’uuf hawwiis fedhiis hin qabun ture. Hiriyoonni koo hedduun amma waliin jirrus ta’e kanneen ani bakka biraatti beekus akkasuma. Garuu, biyya kana keessatti namni hunduu waan fedhii isaa barachuuf carraa waan hin arganneef barsiisummaa akka riqichaatti itti fayyadamee har’umaaf taatus mataa koo danda’ee jiraachaa gara biraatti ce’uuf qofan itti seene. Kanumaaf egaa barsiisaan hedduun yeroo ammaa kana kan inni barsiisummaa lagatee keessaa baqataa jiruuf. Ergan Oromiyaa keessatti barsiisaa ta’ee asis fedhii ijoolleen Oromoo waa beekuuf qabdu ilaalee dheebuu isaanii kana baasuuf hammamuu yoon carraaqe, bu’aa barbaachisaa buusee hin beeku. Namni waan fedhii fi jaalalaan hojjetu irratti bu’a-qabeessa ta’akaa!

4) Dareewwan barnootaa manneen barnootaa Oromiyaa keenyaas ta’an; kan Itoophiyaa martuu galma wal gahii beeloftootaati jedheen hiika ani. Maaliif jennaan, barsiisaan mindaa gahaa waan hin arganneef ni beela’a, barattoonni isaas tarsiimoo misooma baadiyyaa dadhabaa mootummaan dadhabaan miidiyaa irratti qofa odeessuuf baafateen maatiin isaanii waan hiyyoomaniif ni beela’u. Namni dhimma baruu-barsiisuu qabu hin jiru jechuu kooti. Waa’ee barnootaa odeessuun qofti manneen barnootaa fi hojmaata isaa irratti jijjiirama waaraa fidaaree?

5) Yeroo ammaa kana egaa hanqinni barsiisaa Oromiyaa qofa osoo hin taane guutummaa impaayerittii Ixoobiyaa kanayyu mudateera. Kafaaf immoo sababni ijoon isa gareen sobdootaa (mootummaan) manneen barnootaa heddumminaan ijaarree waan babal’isneefi tarsiimoo barnootaa daree tokko keessatti yoo baay’ate barsiisaan tokko barattoota afurtamaaf (1:40), jedhu qabannee hojjechaa waan jirruuf jedhu miti. Hojmaatni manneen barnootaa keessatti dura-taa’ota manneen barnootaa utuu gahumsa hooggansa mana barnootaa hin qabaatiin malaammaltummaa fi ergama OPDO galmaan gahuuf kaa’amaniin waan laamsha’ee fi yaada ani qabxii sadaffaa irratti eeruuf yaaleen barsiisaan garbummaa mana barumsaarraa hurii of baasuutti kutate. Isa kanaaf immoo mootummaan akka furmaataatti barattoota ofiifuu kutaa 10ffaatti kufan ganda keessaa barbaadee miindeffamanii akka isaan barsiisan godhe. Haala kana keessatti egaa qulqullinni barnootaa ergamaa waaqaatiin gara daree barnootaa haa dhufuuree?

6) Dubbiin garagaltoo taanaan tajaajilaa hawaasaa (civil-servant) biyya kana keessa jiru keessaa barsiisaan isa akka malee tuffatamaa ta’aa dhufeera. Dhawaatuma kanaatiin, hojiin barsiisummaa immoo jibbamaa dhufeera. Kun immoo sadarkaan ofitti amanamummaa barsiisotaa akka quucaruuf shoora mataa isaa taphateera. Hangamuu sabboonaa yoon ta’e; ijoollee Oromoo barsiisuuf yoon kutadhe, nama na tuffatu daree seenee dhugaatti barsiisuun ni ulfaata. Utuuma anuu barsiiseetii, hammi hubannaa barataa koo isiniin haa tilmaamamukaa!

7) Yeroo ammaa kanayyu, jechuun jaarraa qaroome kana keessattillee, maatiin ijoollee Oromoo hedduun aadaadhumaaf barataa mana barnootaatti ergaa jiru. Mee kanumti ilmi/intaalli isaa/ishee kutaa meeqa akka baratan hin beekneyyu haa dhibukaa! Barataan maatii isaatiin hin hordofamu; hin deeggaramu taanaan barsiisaa qofti qulqullinaa fi bu’aa barnoota irraa argamu gonkumaa fiduu hin danda’u.

Sababni inni biraan dhimma daree dhuunfaa jedhamu kanadha. Daree dhuunfaa jechuun kutaa tokkoo hanga afuriitti barsiisaan tokkichi/tokkittiin haa barsiisu isa jedhu. Barsiisaan sun ijoollee barnoota A,B,C,D… 0.1,2,3… jedhanii reefuu eegalan egaa akkuma mataa isaa/isheetti qaree doomsa jechuudha mitiiree? "Sa'a abbaan gaafa cabse, ormi ija jaamsa" jedha Oromoon. Kanaafuu, waa'een afaanii waa'ee eenyummaati. Abbaan argite lafumaa kaatee akka barbaadde gochuu hin qabdu; hin dandeessus.

Itti fufa…

Aboonkeeti Fayyisaati 

Caamsaa 6, 2017

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