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Meet MetEC – the misleadingly named Ethiopian Metal and Engineering Corporation that has come to dominate the Ethiopian economy in less than one year.
Headed by Brigadier General Kinfu Dagnew, MetEC now controls 15 industries and 100 factories. It has its fingers in everything from the so-called Grand Renaissance Dam to arms factories, to a spanking new fertilizer factory, to ten sugar factories, one of which presumably requires the tearing down of Waldiba Monastery.
MetEC is the latest creative move by TPLF to tighten its grip and to control every aspect of the life of Ethiopians. It entrenches a patronage system that gives a larger stake to the military while guaranteeing the survival of the regime.
Disguised as economic development, the move is also
further evidence of unabashed wealth transfer from a much-suffering
population held hostage to an unrepresentative ethnic minority that has
created a police state with the blessing of foreign powers. Many of the
foreign backers also benefit from various illicit deals with the
secretive regime.
The bigger fish gulp the smaller ones
By Yonas Abiye | Ethiopian Reporter
Recently, a flock of Ethiopian celebrities were fighting to voice
their experiences on their visit to one of the government owned military
industrial complexes.

