On 19 June 2019 New Business Ethiopia carried Kebour Ghenna’s essay “Deconstructing the privatization scam,” which warned that selling Ethio Telecom to international investors rested on thin claims that private owners always deliver cheaper, better service.
Drawing on Kenya’s Telkom and Kenya Airways experiences, he argued that cleanup costs, job losses, and opaque share structures often landed on taxpayers while monopoly profits were hard to square with “broke utility” talking points.
Kept as politics-economy analysis archive, the Kebour Ghenna essay dates a mid-2019 critical reading of Ethiopia’s telecom privatisation drive.
Sources: New Business Ethiopia