{"id":262474,"date":"2019-01-24T05:04:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=262474"},"modified":"2019-02-06T03:40:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:40:52","slug":"i-suspect-bereket-simons-arrest-is-politically-motivated-getachew-reda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/262474","title":{"rendered":"Bereket Simon&#8217;s arrest is politically motivated \u2013 Getachew Reda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dF7uCbzszW8<\/p>\n<p>Bereket Simon and Tadesse Kassa were arrested on corruption charges yesterday. The former EPRDF officials and ex-members of TIRET Corporation are detained in Bahir Dar city awaiting trial for misappropriated funds. Bereket Simon has been the talk of the town following his comment during a conference in Mekelle University when he deemed the current administration weak.<br \/>\nBBC interviewed former Head of Federal Government Communications Affair Office Ato Getachew Reda for his thought on the arrests. In Ato Getachew\u2019s opinion, the arrest was unbelievable since he thought Bereket would be the last person arrested for corruption charges.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nSubscribe to Mereja TV&#8217;s Youtube Channel: https:\/\/goo.gl\/jT1CDS<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news and information about #Ethiopia and Ethiopians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dF7uCbzszW8 Bereket Simon and Tadesse Kassa were arrested on corruption charges yesterday. The former EPRDF officials and ex-members of TIRET Corporation are detained in Bahir Dar city awaiting trial for misappropriated funds. Bereket Simon has been the talk of the town following his comment during a conference in Mekelle University when he deemed the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":262475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Getachew-reda-3.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-16hs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262506,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262474\/revisions\/262506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}