Oromo Liberation Front: We never Signed ANY peace deal

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OLF Statement on a Bogus Press Release in the Name of OLF

A naked butterfly dresses a stone” runs an Oromo proverb. We read with amusement a ‘press release’ from Minnesota USA by a group that claims to be OLF claiming to have reviewed the program of the organization and defining a new vision for Ethiopia. An outlaw splinter group from the OLF cannot undertake a venture that in itself is unconstitutional in the organization.

The group that calls itself OLF and issued a ‘press release’ on Jan. 1, 2012 to the effect of amending the organization’s program is a minority splinter group that has no legal or moral basis to claim the name OLF as we have stated on our previous statement. According to the organization’s constitution and any organizational norm it is the decision of the majority that has to finally prevail. This negligible minority group negate this norm and the organizational constitution to which they were a party and try to usurp the name OLF itself.

While they themselves are illegally using this name they made further unconstitutional decision by amending the Program of the organisation. Amending the Program, the Constitution and election of members of the National Council is an exclusive prerogative of the National Congress which meets periodically, not the National Council as they wrongly state.