Pain gone wrong in ethiopia. I. Hope youre doing good welcome to the program she is africas riches woman but how did. The daughter former president really make a fortune and you investigation alleges she became rich by stealing from the state. Dismissed claims she says shes a victim of witch hunt the International Investigative journalist which the new allegations on sunday say they have evidence of massive wrongdoing by the former office talked. With me in the studio. A journalist whos lived in thing about angola for many years welcome social theyd like to talk now tell us more about the main allegations against the builder santos well essentially its a theres 2 questions one is about legality and one is about huge flows of wealth of shore from angola and i think the big story here is that large amounts of money have gone out of angola money that could have been used for angola and Development One of the one of africas poorest countries but instead its gone into a well a well to remains of offShore Companies and real estate and and normal on Shore Companies all around the world and the question is whether you know whether this is happened legally or not and thats a very complex question as she says this is all a political witch hunt against her family does she have a point well theres no doubt that she is a threat to the new government the president does santos consolidated his power since 1989 very cleverly very severe in a very sophisticated ways he created all sorts of mechanisms that would he hoped and preserve his power after he left office and you know isabels fortunes were part of that. So zhong reza does need to consolidate his power doesnt need to push these people out having said that theres clearly a case to answer here that she has clearly benefited massively from state largess and the fact that he was her father so its kind of 2 things ok talking about shes a master to what extent that western Companies Really rule in all of this well thats one of the big stories here i think we have this habit of people in the west to point fingers at you know african countries saying look how corrupt you are look how corrupt your leaders are and the sure theres lots of that but we in the west really need to start taking a look at ourselves because all of this stuff is handled by big Western Banks by big 4 Accounting Firms by Management Consulting companies by law firms. Real estate firms theres a whole army an infrastructure of what you might call enablers of of the looting of african countries and other other poor countries and this is a better a didnt get it by western governments and its actually encouraged by western governments because the money is kind of flowing into our countries flowing into the u. K. And the u. K. Likes it that way and so it is really helping this stuff is helping the looting of africa and i think thats the biggest point that we need to realize from this story that indeed is the biggest point was you currently. In the u. K. Does where she lives so the 1000000000 dollar question is could she have a is just as well i think i was she has the means to avoid facing justice and theres theres various places you know places like the u. K. A very hospitable to wealthy people you know she could go to somewhere like to buy she could get you know portugal has always been hospitable when youve got a lot of money its usually easy to state to keep out away from the the arms of justice and i think the angolan Justice System doesnt have a very strong power clout internationally and if the angolans want to prosecute her it will be difficult for them to bring her to justice i think some of her assets maybe seize that special but to get her actually on the hook and prosecuted. You know if theyre able to do that i think that would be a difficult thing for them to do and they lessen journalist but its on a list of thanks for your time thank you. Lets go to angola as capital to wanda to speak to Rafael Marquez hes a journalist and to Corruption Campaign up thanks for your time so how on golans reaction to all these allegations against isabel dissenters the recent reaction actually is that because it was long overdue. Really. Off. And the so people arent talking much about it dont shout raise the bow was the monster active member in the looting of that kind of free from that of santa semele and now shes facing the music i draw because she always starts to be sheltered and then touch will not just remember what it brought us well and i disagree with meek when meek said a spirit she was afraid the member left because of the structure in fact that last in fact she was so highly annotated than the country and people really had an issue with these about so she was not a threat because of the way she usually scorned that around people i see now as president florence you really need cracking down on corruption or is it just easy ad to go after the big fish i feel is not just going after the big fish we have at several. Low rat meat you know medium level Public Officials who are steeped in now reaching out and we also have high profile general former ministers and doctors who have been indicted of crimes just at the National Assembly in parliament we have several members of parliament who actually have to face justice because they now formal suspects in the number of investigations so does it not is that is exclusive the delicious family ok everyone that ive been found to be having their hands in the pot basically cases are being brought against them its just that their means not. Be shot systemic. Came back to isabel designs as the government has already frozen had local assets what else could they do to tackle this. This initially what they can do now is to launch criminal cases like this because so far its only it is a lot of freezing the assets to recover the money she legally porridge from the state ok now out there if it is that she needs to Face Criminal Charges ok well have to wait and see how things develop but thank you very much. For your time. If you can government has announced its intention to privatized the countrys 13 Sugar Factories as part of a drive to open up the economy and the south. Known for its many indigenous groups on natural landscape a place known as the grass as state still poses Major Economic and Security Issues local communities feel that they have been left out of the equation a military crackdown to ensure the some amount of local villages has led to killings arbitrary detention some testimonies and those reports none of us or the interviewees safety. This woman from the bodie tribe is mourning her husband and children they were killed by the military about 3 months ago part of a Government Campaign to disarm ethiopia slower oh move ali and when. They came to our village and started to hit us and kill us anyone who started to run away was killed many people lost their lives and the village is empty now. Like many other bodies she and her family lost their farm land by one of the areas for Sugar Factories she says she didnt receive any type of compensation that left her and others frustrated and there have been revenge attacks including one factory employees according to this man the military attack is a retaliation for those incidents. The government collected the guns because they think of the bodies have guns they will not allow the factories to produce sugar and they will try to protect their land. After they took our guns they started to kill us and many have been jailed. About to whom the mercy the tribe famous for the plates the women were also detained and tortured in the military camp in october in the summer accused of killing hiding weapons or stealing cattle from other tribes and this man says he was denied food for 6 consecutive days along with women and children. At some point they took 15 elders inside and started hitting them while they also pulled in general is what i wrote about him. You know cool authorities refused to come and visit in the Sugar Factories to find out more was impossible despite official requests we were not allowed to get past this tech point or visit any other sugar plantation the local police also considerably restrained our freedom of movement in the area some suspect that the military crackdown is part of a government effort to make the area more attractive to investors by reducing conflicts the Disarmament Campaign started many years ago but it was not usually so violent according to better they can speak it research and the oma valley Sugar Factories we have to keep in mind that the cross project is not only in Agricultural Development scheme but its actually like a regional Development Scheme which was meant to modernize. The region that the people the People Living in the almost daily. This also involves something. Which can be called a civilizational mission. And also what has been described to me ass astonishing law and order so i think what we see you know its just a continuation but stopped at maybe 10 years ago he says it will be difficult to find investors at the moment although thats a key goal of the state in Sugar Corporation as a lot of technical challenges to actually make those those are states operational but its also the Reputational Risk involved for investors and the project got a lot of negative publicity over the last couple of years mainly due to very Bad Information management from the site of the sugar cooperation and the way the communities that traditionally used. To have to be treated or not included in the entire Decision Making process researchers working on the only valley have urged the government to investigate the allegations mercies now fear a new attack in the coming months some villages are still reach. Losing to hand in their guns clinging to their own means of protecting their families and cattle. 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