10/23/2025
Waxaa sidaan qoray mid ka mid ah aqoonyahnadda ka soo jeeda Ethiopia 🇪🇹
The Trap of the TPLF
Dr. Abiy has fallen into the greatest trap that the TPLF ever set for the succeeding government.
The Tigrayans created states or administrations based on ethnic groups — a constitutional arrangement that is extremely dangerous if tampered with.
Dr. Abiy believes he should become a king, as his mother once dreamed, and he intends to turn the current Ethiopian system into an autocracy.
This is the same trap that the TPLF had previously fallen into. The time has now come for his regime to be confronted as those before him were.
During the TPLF’s rule, Abiy killed Oromos in the same way that Abdi Ilay killed the Ogaden people. He gained education and special ranks through that, reaching the position of prime minister through Oromo blood. But will this position restore the lives of those Oromos he killed? No — it merely fulfilled his ambition to rise to power.
Abiy’s current political strategy is the same one that once destroyed Meles Zenawi, When Meles faced ONLF militarily, he later replaced direct warfare with the tactic of dividing the Ogaden and other Somali groups against each other.
That move saved him soldiers and resources while weakening Somali unity through tribal conflict.
His victory came when all Somalis became fearful and divided by clan-based enmity. Some, like Gabanka and Jaale Goray, still remember that bitterness, Many others remain trapped in fear and tribalism.
Following Meles’s path, Abiy began — during the oil exploration phase — to stir up conflicts within the Somali Regional State (DDS) and among neighboring communities,
Using Mustafe (the regional president) as his tool, he first disbanded the Liyu Police, fearing they might understand the real issue behind the oil drilling and his hidden agenda.
Later, Abiy, Mustafe, and the Afar regional president created conflicts between the Issa and Afar communities — using the Liyu Police to carry out the violence. When mediation was sought, the Ethiopian military was present but remained silent, considering it a government-led conflict.
After that came the Dacawley conflict, which was planned by Abiy, Mustafe, and Biixi — an attempt to ignite war between the Isaaq and the Ogaden clans. The Ethiopian military again stayed idle, viewing it as a political war rather than a national threat.
While continuing this strategy, Abiy and Mustafe even destroyed the statue of Sayid Mohamed Abdullah Hassan, claiming it was divisive among Somalis — especially between the Ogaden and other Somali groups.
Furthermore, they created false districts and regions to instigate land-based and clan-based wars. As the Somali proverb says, “The gazelle digs its own trap.”
The Somali people still don’t seem to understand the divisions imposed on them since the 1980s.
Abiy’s main goal is to secure access to the oil wells while turning local communities and neighbors against each other. Recently, in the Baladweyne area, the Ethiopian military (disguised as Liyu Police) crossed into Somalia. Two thousand Liyu Police officers who had guarded the oil sites for the past six years have now been replaced.
Ethiopia’s constitution does not recognize the Liyu Police — only the army, federal police, and prison forces. The Liyu Police are mercenaries who oppress their own people while protecting the country’s resources for outsiders. They destroy their own future, sacrificing their lives while bringing suffering to their children and their nation.
Abiy recently declared that “the Ogaden land belongs to the ONLF,” another divisive statement intended to incite hatred among the Ogaden people so they would fight among themselves while he continues drilling for oil.
The Ogaden land is Somali land, and its resources cannot be taken without the Somali people’s consent. The Somalis are too intelligent to be deceived by false promises or manipulative words. Somali Galbeed, Ogadenia, and the Somali Regional State (DDS) are all Somali names — they cannot be replaced with “Eastern Ethiopia.”
Abiy is using Ethiopia’s resources for his own political gain, deceiving the people. But the Somali nation will never allow its natural wealth to be used for its destruction — whether by Amhara, Tigray, Beni Shangul, or even the Federal Somali Government (DFS).
