ADDIS ABABA – The government has taken a comprehensive and serious reform measures to improve the Ethiopian security sector, particularly focusing on the ongoing political reform through proper professional composition and organizational principles, according to the Institute for Structural Affairs (ISA).
On his remark during a public seminar held yesterday with the theme: “The security sector in political transition,” Tesfahun Gobezay, State Minister and National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, stated that the military, the intelligence and the police are witnessing radical changes in improving their leadership, composition and organizational principles.
Reforming the security sector is indispensible to avoid challenges that may encounter the ongoing political reform; he emphasized adding that revising the national security policy is among the achievements attained over the last couple of years.
Lieutenant General Gebretsadkan Gebretensae, Former Chief of Staff at the Ethiopian National Defense Forces, for his part said that reforming security sector ought to be a prior task as it is composed of civilians and officials. The compositions amongst the professional and technical as well as the political and social aspects are inalienable structure to exist in the security sector, he stressed.
On the other hand, Yonas Adaye (Ph.D), Director of Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, said that the security sector has a vital role in every political transition. He further noted that the sector should work further on political correctness, gender equality, effective resource utilization and accountability for further achievement.
During the seminar, panelists and participants stressed that such consultative discussions helps government and policy makers as an input for further engagement in every social and other issue.
The Ethiopian Herald, December 28/2019
BY HIZKEL HAILU
