Excerpt from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Speech at the 13th Ordinary Session

Excerpt from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Speech at the 13th Ordinary Session of the 6th House of Peoples’ Representative

• It is important to weigh the developments taking into account the challenges of the past 4 years;
• Despite the challenges of drought, war, locusts and drought over the years, much development has been done;
• About 4,700 km of asphalt road has been built in the last four years;
• After the change, 116 km sidewalks and 151 km asphalt road were constructed in Addis Ababa;
• In East Gojjam Zone alone, 504 km has been built in the last 2 and a half years.
• Four years ago ethiotelecom used to have 38 million subscribers and now has 65.5 million subscribers;
• Despite the war and instability, there used to be 4 sugar factories and now there are 9 sugar factories.
• The reason for the shortage of sugar despite  the construction of the sugar factories is due to high demand.
• The airline’s destination was 115 and now it has reached 127; The airline’s revenue was $ 3.3 billion before the change, and now it is $ 4.8 billion; The airline handles 22 million passengers;
• 1.7 million students benefit from the recently launched feeding program;
• 28% of the farmland is traversed by tractor and 45% of the cultivated land is cluster;
• A total of 23-24 million quintals of summer wheat is expected;
• Government subsidizes 15 billion birr
• In Addis Ababa alone, for example, more than 628,000 students were fed, and more than 3.4 million loaves of bread were produced daily through two bakeries.
• Efforts have also been made to control inflation by operating more than 80 Sunday markets.
• Inflation has reached 33 percent.