![]() ![]() ![]() Hordofa Demissie, another resident in Lemi Kura, has expressed his concern regarding the matter. Another interviewee, raising the same concerns, stated that when she was seeking services, the city administration and the Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finnfine had discrepancies. ” They both have been giving us controversial replies when it comes to the boundaries and we would have been able to know who to ask had they delimited the boundaries clearly,” he added. Zewdu Megera, a resident of Lemi Kura Sub-City told this media outlet that they have consistently been asking both the city administration and the Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finnfine to clearly delimit the administrative boundaries, either by using bridges or such signs. In this regard, a state-sponsored local broadcasting media interviewed some residents affected by the decision. The same holds true for residents of the Special Zone who have built their own unique lifestyle and who are forced to be administered under the city administration,” he speculated the tension. “Taking into account that Addis Abeba is the capital and the seat for the African Union, I am afraid residents of the city who will be delineated under the Special Zone will not be happy. He further expressed that the government officials from the said areas of Addis Abeba and Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finnfine will hold discussions with the residents that will be affected by the decisions. “There should be divisions of wealth and property, including condominiums built by both the city administration and the Oromia region surrounding Addis Abeba have been, among others, the major issues we, the leaders, had heated debate on the how part of the implementation.” He added. Reinforcing this, the unnamed government official, who spoke with Addis Standard stated that despite some consensus, even among the said officials, the full agreement has not arrived yet. The people living in the areas affected by the decisions are “obliged to accept the government’s decisions as a citizen, it should be known that the right to know and participate in the process should be respected,” the party stressed. Indicating the importance of demarcating administrative boundaries to handle the problems on the ground, EZEMA underlined that the residents in the said areas should get involved and be the owners of the process. “It is absolutely wrong to pass such a grand decision while neglecting the residents who are directly affected by it,” adding, “discussions have been held among Addis Abeba City Administration, Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finnfine, and higher officials at the federal level,” he said. According to him, the public should have been the prime target of the decision, and discussion should have commenced from them. Speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, he stated that the administrative boundary decision has been set by top governmental bodies and was delivered to the bottom instead of what was supposed to be the inverse. “Bottom-up” approach should have been implemented to delineate the administrative boundary boundaries between Addis Abeba city and Oromia region, a confidential, high-ranking official working at the Ministry of Justice told Addis Standard. In the same meeting, the Executive Committee stated that it understood that the Addis Ababa City Administration and the Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finnfine had reached an agreement to demarcate the administrative boundaries. Getahun Tsegaye Abeba: The Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (EZEMA) Party said that the decision to delimit the administrative boundaries between Addis Abeba city and the Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finnfine is a “big mistake” and also called it an “attempt to forcefully impose” whereby the disadvantage would outweigh the advantages.įollowing the emergency meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee today, it issued a statement denouncing the administrative boundary work and said it is an untimely decision. ![]()
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