Addis Abeba — Kennasa Ayana, member of the executive committee of the opposition Oromo Liberation Front and three other senior officials of the party who are also the party's central committee members have been critically ill and denied urgent treatment, spokesperson of OLF Lemmi Gemechu toldKennasa Ayansa, Dawit Abdeta, Gadaa Oljirra and Gadaa Gebissa who are currently detained at Burayu police station have all developed chronic diseases according to Lemmi.
"Kennasa Ayana and Dawit Abdeta suffered severe backbone injury, Gadaa Oljirra developed complications related to previous surgery while Gadaa Gebissa contracted Hepatitis B," Lemmi said, adding that, one of the party's five EC members, Kennasa Ayana,"has got his back injured severely, and he is unable to walk or stand".that the police disallowed Kennasa from getting admitted to a hospital for an inpatient treatment which his physician prescribed for him.
"He[Kennasa] cannot afford to arrange transportation to and from the hospital every day as the detainee is covering all the costs on his own", Tuli said. In addition to the ailing four high-ranking officials, three other senior officials of the OLF remain incarcerated in Burayu police station, some of them despite repetitiveIn May last year, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission released a
following an investigation into the detention of Oromo Liberation Front leaders in various detention centers in Oromia. The report confirmed that many OLF leaders and members are"illegally detained" and subjected to abuse.who are in prison since 2019, accusing the police of torturing them while in detention.
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