Daniel Kibret’s Delusional Word Games for Unitarism ሕብረ ብሔራዊ as Orwellian Camouflage of a Unitary Ethiopia

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Daniel Kibret, the Prosperity Party’s unofficial wordsmith and controversial advisor, is once again at the center of a linguistic smokescreen. His latest catchphrase, ሕብረ ብሔራዊ—translated as Multi-National or Co-National—is a rhetorical tool designed to mask the regime’s assault on Multinational Federalism. With a history of inflammatory speech and ideological spin, Daniel Kibret’s language games now signal a dangerous return to unitarism.

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Glossary of Deception

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
— George Orwell [1]

We have been sounding the alarm.

In recent days, The Death of Federalism by Agenda [2] and Sleepwalking Into The Tyranny of Geography [3] editorials warned of a coordinated plan to dismantle Ethiopia’s fragile Multinational Federalism. The warning was clear: what is being dismantled is not just a system of governance—it is the fragile promise of dignity through diversity.

Now, from the propaganda labs of the Prosperity Party, comes the latest Orwellian invention: ሕብረ ብሔራዊ—translated as Multi-National or Co-National, courtesy of Google Translate. The linguistic repackaging bears the unmistakable imprint of Daniel Kibret [4], the regime’s unofficial chief ideologue and a man notorious for his inflammatory wordplay—from branding political opponents with derogatory names, to delivering genocidal incitements [5] and racist tirades so vile they earned him bans from countries he once praised. In this latest twist, the same rhetorical playbook is being used not to provoke—but to pacify, confuse, and conceal a centralist agenda.

The words Multi-National or Co-National is obviously chosen to make it sound a more united empire. The trick is obvious: swap out a constitutional reality for an emotional illusion.

No Such Political Framework!

But let’s be clear: There is no political framework anywhere in the world called Multi-National or Co-National—least of all for an empire like Ethiopia, a political anomaly clinging to structures the rest of the world has long abandoned. There is no functioning state system known as Multi-National or Co-National without federation at its core. These are not models of governance. They are rhetorical fog machines.

The only known, functional, and internationally recognized model that brings together multiple nations under one state is federalism—precisely the model the PP regime is now working to dismantle. Nations are federated—not merely co-existing, not merely bundled under invented unity—but joined under a shared and enforceable constitutional framework that guarantees self-rule, shared rule, and mutual respect.

So what is Co-National or Multi-National without a federal framework? Nothing more than rebranded unitarism—where coercion remains the binding force, simply concealed beneath softer language. Concepts without teeth. Words without institutions. Promises without rights.

ሕብረ ብሔራዊ is not a model—it’s a euphemism. It doesn’t build unity—it manufactures consent for centralization. It doesn’t celebrate difference—it neutralizes it under a shared fiction. This isn’t nation-building. This is identity laundering in the language of peace.

Let’s be brutally honest: You cannot dissolve historical grievances with branding. You cannot replace self-rule with semantic tricks. You cannot rename federalism into oblivion and call it progress.

• This is not reform—it is regression.
• This is not unity—it is the Tyranny of Geography reborn in linguistic disguise.
• This is not policy—it is Orwellian theatre, staged in broad daylight.

We set the alarm. The words have changed, but the agenda has not.
Now the question is—will the public wake up before this fiction becomes the law of the land?

The “Four Issues” and the New Roadmap to Forgetfulness

In his speech [4], Daniel Kibret outlined what he called the “four main issues for modern Ethiopia.” Though delivered with the tone of national uplift, the list reveals more than it conceals. It reads less like a vision for the future and more like a roadmap for unitarist regression, cloaked in nationalist ambition.

Here’s the breakdown:

1. To create ሕብረ ብሔራዊ unity
2. To protect Ethiopia’s national interest
3. To create a common narrative
4. To make Ethiopia prosper

At first glance, it sounds polished—visionary even. But let’s pull back the Orwellian Iron Curtain—because behind the lofty phrases and poetic nationalism lies a blueprint for forgetting, not forging.

The first item—has already been unmasked. ሕብረ ብሔራዊ, or “Multi-National Unity” is not a political framework—it is a rhetorical veil thrown over a unitary project. It is a branding exercise to erase the federal compact without saying so explicitly.

The second item—national interest—while always important, is so vaguely defined that it can (and often is) used to justify repression, media control, and surveillance in the name of national “stability.”

But it is the third point— that demands special attention: the call to create a common narrative.

This is not about building shared understanding. It is about rewriting history.

We’ve heard this before. Oromia PP figures not long ago, at Adwa Museum inauguration, said,

“Let’s forget what divides us—like past atrocities—and focus on what unites us.”

Translation: suppress memory, erase injustice, and exalt the victorious version of the story. “Let’s celebrate Menelik’s greatness—but quietly skip over the atrocities he committed.”

This “common narrative” is nothing less than a call for ideological amnesia.

• A command to rewrite the school curriculum.
• A directive to flatten diverse lived experiences into one state-approved script.
• This is not reconciliation—it is re-education.
• It is revisionism of the highest order. It is, quite literally, Orwellian.

The fourth point—“to make Ethiopia prosper”—may as well be an afterthought. Prosperity for whom? At what cost? And under what truth?

If history is to be rewritten, if identity is to be blended into abstraction, and if justice is to be deferred indefinitely, then prosperity becomes nothing more than a trophy atop a rigged narrative.

To Wrap Up…

Back to the main theme: ሕብረ ብሔራዊ and let us, for a moment, parse the semantics.

Multi-National? Co-National? So far, these are adjectives. But adjectives to what? What exactly is the political noun we’re modifying?

• Multi-National Ethiopia?

• Co-National Republic of Ethiopia?

• Federal-Lite Empire?

It seems the empire just got promoted—not by progress, but by word parsing.

They call it “ሕብረ ብሔራዊ Unity.” We call it a red herring with a flag.

And if governance can now be gamed through grammar, perhaps the next constitution will be published as a thesaurus.

After all, how can one trust the words of the regime—when its chief linguistic architect is none other than Deacon Dr. Daniel Kibret, the empire’s own cavalier wordsmith?

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References

1. George Orwell, Wikipedia.
2. OT Editorial, The Death of Federalism by Agenda, 6 June 2025, OROMIA TODAY.
3. OT Editorial, Sleepwalking into the Tyranny of Geography, 13 June 2025, OROMIA TODAY.
4. Daniel Kibret’s TikTok Clip of the Above.
5. The Speech by Daniel Kibret, 25 September 2021, BBC News hour.