Tigray region of Ethiopia to be the first where the new legislation will be implemented
Borkena
Toronto – The Ethiopian parliament is expected to approve a new legislation on Tuesday, according to a report by BBC Amharic. If approved, the Federal government will be able to extend interim regional administrations by up to two years. Existing constitutional provision allows extension of only six months.
Based on precedents under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government, there is little or no doubt that the new legislation will be approved.
Apart from extension of terms, the legislation is also shifting authority from the House of Federation to the House of People’s Representatives. Extending terms of regional interim administrations used to be the jurisdiction of the House of Federation. The draft proposal that is set to be approved transfers power to the speaker of the House of People’s Representative.
Normally, new legislations were required to appear on Federal Negarit Gazeta before they are applied. That seems to have changed now. The new legislation is said to be effective as of the day it is approved in the parliament.
The Ethiopian constitution allows the intervention of the Federal governments in regional states under three circumstances. A security situation that is beyond the capacity of the regional government is a justification to intervene. Yet, regional states will have to make a formal request to the Federal government. Abiy Ahmed’s administration has exploited the provision to deploy massive troops, including mechanized units, to the Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Another ground for Federal government intervention in regions ( Ethiopia’s Federal regions are based on ethnic identities) is under circumstances of “human rights violations.” Yet, it appears there are cases where the Federal government itself was involved in rights abuse. This has happened in the Amhara, Oromo and Tigray regions. Human Rights organizations have been reporting extensive human rights abuse (including extrajudicial killings and rape) in regional states by Federal government forces.
The third condition for Federal government intervention in the region is an instance of armed rebellion.
It was the situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia – where an Interim Regional Administration was formed for two years as part of the Pretoria Agreement arraignment – that necessitated the extension of regional interim administrations by more than six months.
Pretoria ended the bloody two years war between the Tigray region under the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Federal government under Abiy Ahmed. The war is said to have claimed an estimated one million lives from three regions – Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions.
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The Abiy Ahmed government does not have any business in Tigray. It has lost the war and has been forced out of Tigray but its provocations continue disregarding the Pretoria agreement which saved it. The regional power Tigray must not tolerate any more provocations.
Time to free and organize Tigray! The government have all rights, you sit back and cry for those TPLF leaders who were destroyed by drones and the remaining ones who are fighting for power while the society needs food and water. Yehatiyat mechereshaw gehaneb naw, the king sent most of those bad leaders to hell. You the little one still believes that Tigray won the war and reginal power? You know the truth, but you choose to lie yourself. You even believed that Oromia is a gift from TPLF…. are you sleeping upside down at night? you are confused, something i mixed in your brain :) Nebs yemar Tegadaly