{"id":274157,"date":"2019-04-27T02:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T06:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaG91c2UtcmVqZWN0cy1wcm9wb3NlZC1pbW11bml0eS1vbWJ1ZHNtZW5pbnZlc3RpZ2F0b3Jz0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:27","slug":"parliament-rejected-blanket-immunity-for-ombudsmen-and-investigators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274157","title":{"rendered":"Parliament rejected blanket immunity for Ombudsmen and investigators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, The Reporter Ethiopia reported that the House rejected a proposal that would have widened immunity for Ombudsmen and investigators, a quiet institutional fight about whether watchdogs answer to law or float above it.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-428468\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ethiopia-Instiution-of-the-Ombudsman.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Parliament rejected blanket immunity for Ombudsmen and investigators\" \/>\n<p>Immunity debates sound technical until you remember Ethiopia\u2019s history of shielded officials. Oversight bodies need independence from the executive, not personal force fields against scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Under Abiy Ahmed\u2019s reform branding, cleaning institutions was a slogan. Votes like this show the grind: who gets protected, and who still faces consequence when power is abused.<\/p>\n<p>As governance archive, the Ombudsman immunity fight is small on the wire and large in principle. Accountability dies in the footnotes of procedural bills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/house-rejects-proposed-immunity-ombudsmen-investigators\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House rejects proposed immunity for Ombudsmen, investigators&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe House of Peoples&#8217; Representatives (HPR) has approved a new draft proclamation providing for the establishment of an Ombudsman Institution repealing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":428468,"comment_status":"closed","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-274157","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\/2023\/01\/Ethiopia-Instiution-of-the-Ombudsman.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19jT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274157","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601451,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274157\/revisions\/601451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}