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Ethiopia: CUD Executive Committee Accuses Hailu of Overstepping Authority
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The Reporter (Addis Ababa)
15 December 2007
Posted to the web 17 December 2007
Bruck Shewareged
The executive committee of the former CUD yesterday countered the party chairman's decision to suspend five of its member by issuing a statement that the former chairman's "illegal" measure will be referred to the party's Supreme Council for a final decision.
The executive committee members, led by the party's deputy chairwoman Birtukan Mideksa, issued a press release which detail's Chairman Hailu Shawel's numerous activities which do transgressed the party's rules and regulations.
The committee's statement says that the chairman's decision to suspend the five members violated the party's bylaw which details the procedure for suspending a party member. The statement pointed out that Hailu's measure was not in line with Article 25 of the bylaw which defines the duties and responsibilities of the chairman. It was also stated that Hailu's decision did not take into account the procedures laid out in Article 10/3 of the bylaw.
The committee also accused some CUD Supreme Council members, who belonged to the AEUP (one of the four CUD constituting parties) of preventing the committee from holding meeting within the secretariat.
Hailu Shawel also committed acts of intransigence when he decided to set up CUD's International Council while in prison contrary to the decision by the majority members of the executive committee, according to the press statement.
The statement concluded that this and other activities of Hailu showed that he was not willing to submit to majority rule and warned him and others to refrain from committing acts of sabotage aimed at "destroying" the party.
Meanwhile, CUD's executive committee members were barred from holding press conference in three different hotels, and were forced to deliver the press statement only to journalists in front of Yordanos Hotel.
They first tried give press conference at Motera Hotel followed by Kings Hotel.
Birtukan said that the managements of the two hotels gave them lame excuses for refusing to let their facilities be used by the executive committee members.
Only the management of the Yordanos Hotel told them explicitly that they were warned by the police. According to Birtukan, the Yordanos Hotel management told them that they had received calls from the Kirkos sub-city police command and Woreda 15 police office that the press conference was illegal and that the hotel cannot accommodate any such gathering.
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Around 15 journalists were waiting for the arrival of Birtukan and her colleagues when at 4:00 pm a policeman came to inquire about the gathering and explicitly asked for a man called Sileshi. Apparently Sileshi was not there and a short while later Birtukan, accompanied by other committee members, including Dr. Hailu Araya and Muluneh Eyuel, former party secretary, handed over the press statement.
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