{"id":440148,"date":"2023-04-05T01:02:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=440148"},"modified":"2023-04-05T01:02:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:02:57","slug":"ethiopian-parliament-removes-immunity-of-an-mp-in-rare-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/440148","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Ethiopian parliament removes immunity of an MP in rare move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopian parliamentarians on Tuesday lifted the immunity of fellow member of parliament, Chala Wata (Dr) in a rare parliamentary move.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chala was accused of involvement in corrupt procurement practices and having millions of Ethiopia birr currency deposited in his private bank account during the period when he was President of Blue-Hora University, located in Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was also accused of owning a private residence registered under his wife\u2019s name.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The motion to lift former Bule-Hora University President\u2019s immunity was tabled by Etsegenet Mengistu, Chairperson of the Legal, Justice and Democracy Affairs Standing Committee of the Ethiopian parliament.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vote to strip Chala of his immunity was approved with near unanimous vote, with the exception of one abstention vote.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian parliamentarians on Tuesday lifted the immunity of fellow member of parliament, Chala Wata (Dr) in a rare parliamentary move.\u00a0\u00a0 Chala was accused of involvement in corrupt procurement practices and having millions of Ethiopia birr currency deposited in his private bank account during the period when he was President of Blue-Hora University, located in Ethiopia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":440149,"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":[5845],"class_list":["post-440148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/download-2.jpg?fit=299%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1Qva","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440148","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440150,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440148\/revisions\/440150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}