In a bid to ease the tensions, Kenya and Ethiopia have over the past couple of years held a series of high level meetings to discuss border security and particularly the OLF issue. We cannot afford to mar the good relationship we have with Kenya, which did not start yesterday. Elders from both sides accuse the local administation of failing to implement and fortify resolutions made during the North Eastern Province Leaders Peace Conference held last year at Wajir Girls Secondary School which recommended solutions to the wrangles between the two communities. Commenting on the Gurar attack during a baraza immediately after the attack, North Eastern PC Maurice Makhanu assured the residents that the government would investigate those behind the attacks and stamp out the raids once and for all. He made a veiled reference to the Garri as the aggressors in the lastest attack.
Local residents view the local administration with a jaundiced eye.
Mahat Mohammed, from Bute, said that government officials have come in for a great deal of criticism over their handling of the bandit situation over the past 30 years. They serve as a grim reminder of the constant threat of external aggression. They said they know the government sends enough fund for development to the entire province. Every year our government dutifully allocate enough funds for development of the region, but the top civil servants divert the fund under the pretext of security operation. Oromia Online is an independent Web site that does not endorse any single idea or represent any entity or group.