Simegnaw Bekele(Engineer)
Simegnew Bekele Aynalem (Amharic :
ስመኘው በቀለ አይናለም; 13 September 1964
– 26 July 2018) was an Ethiopian
engineer who served as chief project
manager of the Grand Ethiopian
Renaissance Dam project as well as
three other similar dam projects in
Ethiopia. He was considered as the
"public face" of the dam project.
Biography
Bekele was born in 1964 in the small
town of Maksegnit located in Begmeder
Province (now in the Amhara Region ).
He completed a course at the Ethiopian
Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo)
technical training center in 1986. He
taught at the institution for a while
after graduating with a degree in Civil
Engineering from Addis Ababa
University . He served as deputy project
manager for the Gilgel Gibe I and the
project manager for the Gilgel Gibe II
dams. In 2011 he was designated
project manager for the Grand
Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD),
since the start of its construction in
2011. In 2015 the Tigrai Online e-
magazine named him as its person of
the year.
Death
On the morning of 26 July 2018 he was
found shot dead in his Toyota Land
Cruiser on Addis Ababa's Meskel
Square. Speaking at a press conference,
Ethiopian Federal Police Commissioner
Zeinu Jemal said that he had been
found with a Colt gun in his right hand
and a bullet wound behind his right
ear, however foul play has been
suspected. Simegnew had been
scheduled to give a press conference
on the progress of the dam later that
day, following comments by Prime
Minister Abiy Ahmed that construction
could take up to ten more years, far
more than previous projections. He
was the public face of the dam being
built near the country's western border
with Sudan that, when completed, will
be Africa's largest.
Simegnew's death is the second of a
high-profile company official in recent
months. In May, gunmen ambushed
and killed Deep Kamara, the country
manager for Nigeria's Dangote Cement ,
alongside two others in the Oromia
region outside Addis Ababa. His
death sparked protests in Addis Ababa,
with marchers demanding justice for
what they assumed was his
assassination. Prime Minister Abiy
Ahmed reacted to the news, saying he
was "saddened and utterly shocked" by
the engineer's death.
Source :https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simegnew_Bekele
ስመኘው በቀለ አይናለም; 13 September 1964
– 26 July 2018) was an Ethiopian
engineer who served as chief project
manager of the Grand Ethiopian
Renaissance Dam project as well as
three other similar dam projects in
Ethiopia. He was considered as the
"public face" of the dam project.
Biography
Bekele was born in 1964 in the small
town of Maksegnit located in Begmeder
Province (now in the Amhara Region ).
He completed a course at the Ethiopian
Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo)
technical training center in 1986. He
taught at the institution for a while
after graduating with a degree in Civil
Engineering from Addis Ababa
University . He served as deputy project
manager for the Gilgel Gibe I and the
project manager for the Gilgel Gibe II
dams. In 2011 he was designated
project manager for the Grand
Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD),
since the start of its construction in
2011. In 2015 the Tigrai Online e-
magazine named him as its person of
the year.
Death
On the morning of 26 July 2018 he was
found shot dead in his Toyota Land
Cruiser on Addis Ababa's Meskel
Square. Speaking at a press conference,
Ethiopian Federal Police Commissioner
Zeinu Jemal said that he had been
found with a Colt gun in his right hand
and a bullet wound behind his right
ear, however foul play has been
suspected. Simegnew had been
scheduled to give a press conference
on the progress of the dam later that
day, following comments by Prime
Minister Abiy Ahmed that construction
could take up to ten more years, far
more than previous projections. He
was the public face of the dam being
built near the country's western border
with Sudan that, when completed, will
be Africa's largest.
Simegnew's death is the second of a
high-profile company official in recent
months. In May, gunmen ambushed
and killed Deep Kamara, the country
manager for Nigeria's Dangote Cement ,
alongside two others in the Oromia
region outside Addis Ababa. His
death sparked protests in Addis Ababa,
with marchers demanding justice for
what they assumed was his
assassination. Prime Minister Abiy
Ahmed reacted to the news, saying he
was "saddened and utterly shocked" by
the engineer's death.
Source :https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simegnew_Bekele
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