Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed called on the public for a massive turn out on Sunday to clean respective neighborhoods and embrace positive energy.
In addition to the positive impacts on health, the Day is expected to serve as metaphor to free one’s mind from hostility, intrigue and discord. “We’re facing critical challenges these days and to preclude further losses, we need to do away with the bad mentalities and give chance to constructive ones.”
As lack of hygiene lays bare all kinds of health hazards, the mind will also fail to function properly if the environment gets filthy with sprites of hatred, disunity and irresponsibility, as many would agree.
Now that the country is implementing a wide-array of reform: releasing thousands of prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, delisting parties previously taken as terrorists, unblocking hundreds of blogs, and breaking the no war no peace regime between Ethiopia and Eritrea, among others.
But sadly, displacement, communal clashes, death and destruction of property also brought challenges, as mostly government says; masterminded by the anti-reformist the grand corrupts in the hop of putting the government under stress so that it could act as a firefighting brigade.
Sunday’s sanitation campaign is, therefore, to create platform for the public to continue cooperation and get rid of negativity.
Sunday’s sanitation ought to present opportunity to the public and media to openly discuss the trash of overblown differences on the basis of culture and language that some self-styled activists spread on social media.
On the event, people from all walks of life including politicians, public officials, university instructors and students are expected to take part in.
The Ethiopian Herald April 12, 2019
BY WORKU BELACHEW
