Ethiopia's dependence on Djibouti Port was made possible by Treasonous and Criminal despot Zenawi
By Saba

File Photo: Djibouti Port

We have the treasonous and criminal despot Meles Zenawi to thank for our dependence on Djibouti. This development is a huge blow to the destitute Ethiopian public who will be forced to pay for Meles’s folly and treachery in the form of exorbitant prices for imported goods. The chicken are coming home to roost.

Meles and TPLF have done an irreparable damage to the long-term future, security and prosperity of our country. Our children and their children will feel the loss of our ports more than we do today as the country accelerates its effort to end its centuries old isolation and engages in more international commerce.

Eritrea is not just a piece of land sold off to our enemies. It is a strategic advantage, an economic and political upper hand squandered by a traitor and a despot. The end result is a vulnerable Ethiopia there to be coerced in to compromising deals, to be blackmailed and to be taken hostage.

Ethiopia’s dependence on their ports gives Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia huge bargaining advantages in all sorts of areas of importance to us. It is very difficult to say the trained monkey (Meles) was not aware of that when he decided to surrender Eritrea to our enemies which vindicates any one who tends to think land locking Ethiopia could be the most significant step in TPLF’s original plan to establish an independent Tigray republic as revealed by it’s estranged founding members.

We have seen countries cross continents and oceans to crush distant enemies and lay claim to their lands. Meles, on the other, hand surrenders our own land there by creating enemies right on our backyard.

Eritrea has been a thorn on Ethiopia’s side ever since it became a separate entity for the first time in history. It is madness and suicidal (pure treachery in the case of Meles and the TPLF) to create another enemy on our doorstep in the form of Eritrea led by an equally despotic and deranged Esayas.

Ethiopia never needed another enemy. As it is we are surrounded by ill wishers left, right and centre just like scavengers surround dead bodies. Our enemies must be jumping for joy because their work is cut out for them. Meles has achieved in just few years what they have not been able to accomplish for centuries. Thanks to Meles, Ethiopia is a more divided and a more weakened country it has ever been before

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