The vice-chair and an executive committee member of the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), Fetlework Gebregziabher (known as Monjorino) said she was fired not because of poor performance but solely for her dissenting political stance. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed Fetlework a few weeks ago, naming the former Minister of Trade Melaku Alebel as her replacement.” Thanking you for the contribution you have made as Minister of Trade and Industry since October 16, 2018, I would like to inform you that you are being terminated from your post as of January 15,” reads the short letter signed by the Prime Minister.
The Prosperity Party (PP) spokesperson Awolu Abdi later suggested that the minister had been replaced because of unsatisfactory performance and for deliberately obstructing the execution of public services. Fetlework said in an interview Monday with the VOA Mekele reporter the claim is way off the mark and an excuse to cover the real motive.
She said until her dismissal she received no bad performance evaluation either from the Prime Minister or the Cabinet.
The comments marked the first time Fetlework has opened up about the discord that led to her dismissal. ‘I was fired because my party TPLF refused to join the Prosperity Parity. I am entitled to my conviction but the current government does not obey legal rules. There is nothing else, my firing was motivated by that,» she said.
In December 2019, the ruling coalition announced a historic merger among the constitutive parties in the EPRDF (except the TPLF) that led to the founding of the PP. «I and my party believe that this is not the time to implement the Prosperity party’s policy because people have voted for EPRDF’s policy and program. This is how it should be until the next election,» Fetlewok said.
Asked if the constant antagonistic statements coming from TPLF have been exacerbating the already tense relationship with Abiy administration, she argued that by doing that TPLF was not trying to achieve anything other than communicating its stances to the public and government.
Whether the reason for her dismissal was poor performance or political dissent will not make any difference. Both ways she was a hindrance to what the new leadership is trying to accomplish. All one has to do is go back and check her words and actions over the past 20 years in government. In fact Abiy’s government is way to lax in allowing her to hold such a high office for so long. We advise she be thoroughly investigated and held accountable for any corruption she may have engaged in as Minister of Trade and Industry.
“Monjorino” should be grateful she had a job at our expense. I say at “our expense” because she could live a very comfortable life without working going forward. You understand what I mean. Sebhat Nega could fly to Dubai for medical check up any day. Berhane Gebrekristos could live in expensive Shanghai. Azeb Mesfin (Meles’s wife) recently said she is so broken she will be forever indebted to anyone initiating go-fund me! Not the exact words. Rather something like baking injera and begging on the streets of Mekelle just to make it day to day. Do you still not get it?
Fetlework smart and strong fighter everfound in Africa .in my views The dismissal is not because of performance but continued politics .
A reminder of a fat cat tegadalit with gray stretched pant from another era! One doesn’t feel sorry for her given the twisted fate that has befallen the country under Weyane for the last 28 years. She has a good time while it lasts. Now her career flushed down to the toilet once and forever. Does one have to say more. It sufficed to say good-riddance and goodbye.
The fact of the matter is not about her terminating from her job but the lame excuse given by the so called “government”. Call a spade spade, The reason she got fired is obvios. The fact says for itself, she doesn’t belong to PP. At least the regime should have a courage to tell the truth. Anyway come September,things will be different for sure, who knows maybe Jawar mohammed , Daud ibsa , Proffesor Merara or Obo Bekele and others will be the king makers. Then we will say ” guess who is back” stay tuned.
These disgusting old tplf leaders still at duty ? It surprises me. Ye leba ayne Derek alu…. .