State chief renews call to repeat victory on dev’t front

BY MULATU BELACHEW

ADDIS ABABA– Afar State Chief Administrator has called on Afar people to repeat victory on the development front like it achieved victory over terrorist TPLF.

The chief Awol Arba told local media that Afar people standing together on the side of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) has achieved victory over terrorist TPLF but now also it has to repeat such kind of victory on the development front.

During a hearing of the six-month performance report of the budget year for the State , Awol said the terrorist group has opened an all out attacks and tried to control the country’s key entrance and transport corridors. However, the terrorist group move was aborted by Afar state peoples, and ENDF organized responses.

He also said the Afar people (both women and men) were victorious over an enemy who come to humiliate the peoples’ pride and loot the property. The people fight without gender difference to keep their pride and property damages by this terrorist group.

 He further said that this generation has repeated its forefathers and foremothers’ proud history of victory by defeating internal and external enemies who attacked the sovereignty of Ethiopia.

Even during the war period the state has cultivated over seven thousand hectares of wheat , it was learnt.

Next time the state has planned to contribute its share for national wheat demand by developing wide lands with its abundant water resources he said adding the Afar people has to play its leading role for the Afar people and Ethiopians at large.

Actors engaged in the agricultural sector in the state has to use favorable conditions to run agricultural production three times a year in a bid to achieve good result in wheat development, Awol stated.

The Ethiopian Herald March 23/2022

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