{"id":279611,"date":"2019-06-19T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vbmJlLWJsb2cvZGVjb25zdHJ1Y3RpbmctdGhlLXByaXZhdGl6YXRpb24tc2NhbS1hLXZlcnktYnJpdGlzaC1kaXNlYXNlL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:17:03","slug":"kebour-ghenna-called-ethio-telecom-privatisation-a-costly-scam-to-watch-carefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279611","title":{"rendered":"Kebour Ghenna called Ethio Telecom privatisation a costly \u201cscam\u201d to watch carefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 June 2019 New Business Ethiopia carried Kebour Ghenna\u2019s essay \u201cDeconstructing the privatization scam,\u201d which warned that selling Ethio Telecom to international investors rested on thin claims that private owners always deliver cheaper, better service.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kebour Ghenna called Ethio Telecom privatisation a costly \u201cscam\u201d to watch carefully\" \/>\n<p>Drawing on Kenya\u2019s 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 \u201cbroke utility\u201d talking points.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics-economy analysis archive, the Kebour Ghenna essay dates a mid-2019 critical reading of Ethiopia\u2019s telecom privatisation drive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/nbe-blog\/deconstructing-the-privatization-scam-a-very-british-disease\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deconstructing the privatization scam \u2013 A very British disease&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaBy Kebour Ghenna \u2013 In Ethiopia, the next big item for sale is the Ethio Telecom. The Prime Minister is excited about it, his advisors are committed to it, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468257,"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-279611","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\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aJR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279611","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=279611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755279,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279611\/revisions\/755279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}