I have a surprise very soon!

????‍♀️Athletics Selection 2017????‍♀️

"I came to this place to win. If I lose, I will honor the vote of the person who voted, and the person who won will bow down and say congratulations." 

The candidate for the president, Engineer Getu, was surprised

Hatrik Sports Newspaper, which provides high coverage of local sports, has announced two out of the 7 candidates for the 2017 presidential election, the former cross-country champion and the great athlete Gebrehova Gebremariam, who is currently engaged in private business, and the other presidential candidate, who went so far as to build a running track. Before trying to introduce the awardee, the vice chairman of the club and the deputy CEO of Ethio Electric, engineer Getu Geremu to the readers of our newspaper, which is enough to read today, journalist Isaac Balai, who is the executive editor of the newspaper, asked what did you bring to the athletics? Did you come to serve the athletics? Or To serve? He challenged with a question.

Excerpted from the full interview

Full name: Engineer Getu was surprised

Age: 39

Profession: Electrical Engineer

Job Responsibilities: - Ethiopian Electricity

 Service Deputy Chief Executive Officer

(Leading more than 22 thousand employees)

Represented by: Dredawa City Athletics Federation

Who is competing: - For the presidency

Acquaintance with athletics: "Athletics has always been with me. It started at school, in the neighborhood and never stopped. You don't grow up without football and running. You grow up playing and running. There is a city around Addis Ababa called Holeta... I used to run because I had a deep love for athletics I used to watch them as an eighth grade student from the time when Janmedau appeared and they were running for Muger.

It was a situation where we grew up watching the older ones in the media...even though I had the feeling of running, my family didn't help me much to get into it; At that time, education was important and I studied engineering at the university and joined Ethio Electric where I am now.

Job Responsibilities: "Well, I have been in charge of Ethio Electric for 17 years, of which I have worked as a senior manager for sixteen years. I have been working as Deputy CEO for about 7 years. Ethio-Electric

As you know, it is a big institution, it is not easy to lead this institution... I am in charge of about 22 thousand employees..."

???? If you are elected to lead the federation in the elections held on December 12 and 13, what will you achieve...?...

???? "...as you know, I am one of the people who believe that our athletics is sick. To fix the sick athletics that we see with our own eyes, we need brains, capable hands, coaches, senior athletes, the media, the sports family and the investor to return to a better height and a platform that suits us. Where I come from, strategy, plans If I get the chance, I will put it in place, identify the level of coaching in a systematic way, update the system of teenagers and bring it to a better level.

I have presented this idea before... I am not doing these things alone. 

Gambella, Benshangul, Afar, Harari, Dredawa, Somalia, Oromia, Amara, Tigray where I am planted are very big.

I am coming here to do better than Kenya...

???? If you were elected by the General Assembly, what kind of president would you be...?... A dictator? Democrat? Or moderate...?...

???? "...If I choose to speak the truth and I am there, I want to be a leader who listens to all the listeners, listens to all the ideas, and listens to the needs of the Ethiopian coaches, the feelings of the professionals, and sees what the profession needs. …”

???? Do you believe that many people come to the federation not to serve but to serve? Getus comes to power to serve...?...or to serve... ?...

????"...First of all, when I came to this place, I did not come to take any benefits, I don't know whether the chair of the federation has a salary or not. If I can not take anything, I will reduce what I have and pay for this athletics, the sport that we see with our own eyes, to share what I have, but what I want is a car. If there are other things, I come not to take them, but rather to give a portion of what I have..."

???? Many people are seen using their power to fill their personal pockets by getting travel, allowances and various benefits. Getus comes to pursue his personal benefits to collect allowances...?...

????"...to tell the truth, this is not my agenda...I call it from above. I am coming to this place. There are sick athletes. The master alone can save them and the master can do anything. We must take our legends, seniors, and the heroes from the past to the present. I want to focus on solving visible problems I will come

Apart from this, coming to this place to serve oneself and for one's own benefit is killing the country, betraying the country. I am also a man of position... I will stand by my position and serve my people, the athletics that I love. It's your frustration that brought me here, not profit."

???? Athletes can't lead, they can't run, can they lead athletics...?...

???? "...to be honest, it is difficult for me to say that this position only needs to focus on running technique... It also requires a great leadership ability; it requires the leadership ability to bring the skills you know to the ground and implement what you desire... And that ability is where I have been tested, so I don't think I will have a problem, and I ran I don't dare to say a wrong and bold word that he can't lead... all those who compete with me I respect…”

✍️ by journalist Isaac Bai (Hatrick Sports Official)