MitikuKassa

Federal Police have arrested Mitiku Kassa, Commissioner of the National Disaster Risk Management Commission of Ethiopia, on suspicion of corruption, a state-run television says.  The arrest was made on Wednesday following a major investigation on a corruption case involving Mitiku and a non-governmental organization called Elshadai. Deputy commissioner Tadesse Ayalew of the Federal Police told EBC that the NGO received food and other aid items “on several occasions” claiming to provide support to “non-existent” internally displaced people in Awash, Adama, Hawassa, Enjibara, and other places. The NGO later sold the aid items and bought a house for the commissioner using…