Dr. Fisseha Eshetu leaves Ethiopia, moves to politics

By T, Staffer of De Birhan Media

08-2-2012

Dr. Fisseha Eshetu

Dr. Fisseha Eshetu, founder and former owner of Ethiopia's first private college, Unity College now Unity University, has left Ethiopia. He is working to establish the Ethiopian National Transition Council (ENTC). Dr. Fisseha said he is working full time on this new initative.

In his interview with  ESAT Radio, Dr. Fisseha said he was working to establsih Pan African Union Women's  University but curtailed by Azeb Mesfin. He also mentioned of over 10 entrepernura;al  proposals that he set out to start but all to no avail due to  the  governement's letdown. He said the  Ethiopian National Transitional Council is mixed of professionals living in the Diaspora; it will bring all stakeholders together.  

According to  ENTC's Website "Ethiopian National Transition Council (ENTC) is a unity council that plans to mobilize all Ethiopians in every corner of the world to rise up and overthrow the current tyrant regime in Ethiopia and reclaim their dignity and their God given rights for peace and prosperity of their country and to successfully build and hand over a pound nation to the next generation. "

ENTC is an all-inclusive collaboration platform that invites all Ethiopians from all walks of life, having ideological, religious, political, ethnic, educational and socio-economic differences and inclinations, to join hands and take control of their destiny and the destiny of their children. ENTC strongly believes that every Ethiopian is needed for the creation of a new Ethiopia. The new Ethiopia will be a place where all its citizens will enjoy the fruits of complete democracy, freedom of religion, speech, equality, liberty, rights to due process and trial, rights to own property, cultural and educational rights, rights against exploitation, and the rights to constitutional remedies, it adds. 

" The current situation is a ticking bomb for a sudden uprising like the Arab spring, where in this diverse country, it will be difficult to contain the upcoming vacuum, which will ultimately plunge the whole nation into an unstoppable chaos. " Dr. Fisseha's ENTC says in its pubic statment. 

The mission of ENTC is to bring all Ethiopians and other stakeholders together under a united institutional coordination and collaboration framework to bring about the down fall of the current regime and transform Ethiopia into democratic and prosperous state. "Therefore, ENTC is established to facilitate the process of collaboration, consensus building, networking, information dissemination and joint action to channel all efforts in one direction that are strongly needed to bring the downfall of the current regime in a relatively short period of time in a measured, planned and managed process ushering in an era of complete democratization, peace and prosperity. " ENTC's statment concludes.

ENTC has organised a planned ‘Post Meles New Ethiopia’  Confrerence for April 27 – 29, 2012 in Washington, DC, USA  where delegates from Ethiopian community organizations from all cities in USA and other countries around the world, Ethiopian political parties, youth movements, civil activism movements, human right organizations, professionals, religious organizations and others who are interested will participate.    

The primary outcome will be the launching of New Ethiopia Charter, the adoption of New Ethiopia Human Rights Declaration, development and adoption of civil activism strategies, the endorsement of transition roadmap and action plan, and the endorsement of the New Ethiopia development strategy, ENTC states.

The young pioneer of private higher education in Ethiopia, Fisseha had also been highly involved in the private media  sector establishing the first private Amharic Daily newspaper, Eletawi Addis and a 20-minute FM radio time slot, "The voice of unity".    Dr. Fiseha also established Reliance Africa  which published the My Fashion magazine, the first cross cutting Ethiopian fasihon magazine, the ABBI Weekly, ABBI Sport, ABBI Vacancy and ABBI Auction newspapers. Thirteen of the 14 journalists of ABBI Weekly were arrested for one day for publishing after the Ministry of Trade and Industry had revoked the  company's license. According to sources, were it not for the discouraging responses that he got from the Ethiopian regime, Dr. Fisseha had the plan of launching a Pan African Media under Reliance Africa.   

  

Dr. Fisseha Eshetu, received a "Global Young Entrepreneur" award at the 7th World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs in 2000.  Unity University was bought by Sheikh Alamoudi’s MIDROC for 66million birr on November 21, 2008 becoming the 16th MIDROC Ethiopia sister company. 
Watch his interview here :