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Another horrific tragedy involving the kidnapping and murder of an innocent child took place in Gonder City today Sep 1st 2024. Two year old Nolawit Zegeyew was killed by kidnappers despite her father and the community managing to scrap together the 300,000 birr for the ransom and making desperate attempts to get her back. The authorities provided little or no assistance to the desperate father, Zegeyew Wende who is a long time employee of the city’s public bus company and a career driver. With the helps of friends and many of his coworkers, Zegeyew went to every person he knew and asked for help to collect the money over the past few days since his 2 year old daughter was abducted out of their home at 10am on August 30th. After reporting to the local police, he was dismissed and told to ask FANO for help by the authorities who refused to help him. Dismayed at this response he used his resources and begged individuals at the Telecommunications Co. to assist in investigating the location of the kidnappers who had made contact with him using the same mobile phone. He was sent away again and left to manage this horrible crisis on his own with the help of fellow civilians. After being asked to drop the ransom money at a remote location just outside the city limits at an area called Selassie Angereb Zuria, he followed instructions and did as asked and patiently waited for his daughter to be returned. But in what turned out to be a most tragic and devastating day, Zegeyew received a call informing him that his daughter was placed just outside his home around 5pm on Sep 1st, where he found her lifeless body thrown behind some bushes. The community led by a grieving father holding the dead body of his precious daughter marched around the city square in tears, while women and men alike were heard screaming and crying for some time. But during this time of mourning, armed men arrived at the scene and fired relentlessly at the civilians to disperse the crowd, killing and wounding several people in the process. Immediately following this incident, some individuals close to the victims family were told that the local authorities in the police department have announced that any of the people who have assisted Zegeyew and his wife Hanna to collect the ransom money over the last few days are to be arrested in connection to inciting a riot. Nolawit Zegeyew is due to be buried on Sept 2nd 2024 in Gonder City. #Gondercity #Nolawit #Kidnapping #Amhara #Ethiopia #ProtectThePeople

For 3 months Liberal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino failed to act while his office was aware of the plan to move Paul Bernardo, the notorious rapist and murderer, into a less secure penitentiary. He did NOTHING. Marco Mendicino must step down. SIGN: https://t.co/Eli4BsQBiA