The bodyguard who was reported to have killed himself in Addis Ababa on Saturday after shooting army chief of staff Seare Mekonnen along with another retired general Gezai Abera is in the hospital recovering injury, the Ethiopian Federal Police Commission announced.
Contradicting its previous announcement that the bodyguard shot himself shortly after assassinating the generals, the Federal Police Commission said he is still alive. In a statement it issued on the national TV this evening, the Commission said that the bodyguard is in the hospital recovering injury. Earlier this morning head of Ethiopian Federal Police Commission Endeshaw Tasew told the media that the bodyguard committed suicide. Yet another statement from the Office of the Prime Minister on Sunday alleged he was in custody.
The inconsistencies in government declarations are fueling extravagant rumors on social media. An activist and a rights defender Getachew Gebrekiros published on his Twitter feed saying that the stronghold of the enduring conspiracies in Ethiopia is the government itself. “The deliberate internet shutdown, the contradictory official press statements and the evident deceptions barraged by the PM have not abetted the intrigue to confuse the people,” he wrote.
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