The statement that came out of the office of the ruling EPRDF last week was different from the usual ones. An outcome of the permanent monthly meeting of the executive committee of the ruling party, held on Monday and Tuesday, at the Prime Minister's Office, located off Lorenzo Liezaz Street, the statement dwells much on what the party is doing to solve governance problems. Highlighting the significance of the problem, it goes on to state that "a national good governance movement" is being initiated, in which the general public is "placed at the center."
Two of the other subjects dealt in the statement are natural resource management and containment of the protests in Oromia. The inimitability of the statement comes not from the elements it embraces, but the ones that it ignores. It looks like the ruling elite is more overwhelmed by fractures within its administration than the structural snags of the system it is entrusted to govern. In a way, this seems to be coming at the expense of the economy.
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