{"id":3933,"date":"2016-03-28T00:53:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T00:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/mahibere-kidusan-gives-statement-on-orthodox-exhibition-ban\/"},"modified":"2016-03-28T00:53:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T00:53:49","slug":"mahibere-kidusan-gives-statement-on-orthodox-exhibition-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/mahibere-kidusan-gives-statement-on-orthodox-exhibition-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahibere Kidusan Gives Statement on Orthodox Exhibition Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\"><i><b><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">March 28, 2016<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\"><i><b><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">By M\/hr Kassa Nigus <\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span> <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">It is public knowledge that Mahibere Kidusan has finalized preparations to hold its 5th Grand Exhibition from March 24 &#8211; 30, 2016 at Addis Ababa Exhibition Center. But in a rather surprising move the exhibition has been banned very unexpectedly by government bodies just a few hours earlier from the due time for the opening of the exhibition. Last Thursday, Mahibere Kidusan gave a press conference regarding the issue.<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3932\" src=\"http:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/01tesf.png\" alt=\"01tesf.png\" title=\"01tesf.png\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px\" height=\"194\" width=\"260\" \/>General Secretary of  the association, Ato Tesfaye Bihonegn explained the steps went through  and the activities carried out in organizing the exhibition. According  to Ato Tesfaye, Mahiber Kidusan has reached agreement with the  exhibition center to stage a one week exhibition a year before, August  2015. He also added that, they have fulfilled all the required criteria. First, a letter of endorsement giving the go-ahead and written by the  general manager of the Patriarchate of Archbishop Abune Mathewos was  submitted to the company followed by the signing of an agreement with  the company and handing over of the initial payment. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">In accordance with the agreement, we made the last payment on March 21,  2016. But in the morning of March 23, 2016, a day before the due opening date, when the exhibition committee requested the key to the exhibition hall to take-in materials for the event, in a rather shocking move the  committee was told that they could not enter the exhibition hall. When  they asked them the rationale for their unexpected refusal, they told  them that they should bring permission letter from Addis Ababa city  administration. This request was unusual requirement and such a question has never been raised before. As it turns out, the rationale behind the ban has not been openly and clearly expressed, and the company itself  has found the measure puzzling. The exhibition center has taken the  responsibility for the suspension of the exhibition. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino\">Lastly, Ato Tesfaye indicated that the exhibition was banned by government  bodies. He also elaborated on the problem, and expressed his hope that  it will be solved through discussion with the concerned bodies. The  management of Mahiber Kidusan will announce where and when the  exhibition takes place in the future.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\"><i><b><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">March 28, 2016<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #008080\"><i><b><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">By M\/hr Kassa Nigus <\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span> <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">It is public knowledge that Mahibere Kidusan has finalized preparations to hold its 5th Grand Exhibition from March 24 &#8211; 30, 2016 at Addis Ababa Exhibition Center. But in a rather surprising move the exhibition has been banned very unexpectedly by government bodies just a few hours earlier from the due time for the opening of the exhibition. Last Thursday, Mahibere Kidusan gave a press conference regarding the issue.<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}