During the crack down, 56 senior government officials, businessperson and middlemen were arrested in less than a month. The Ethiopian House of Peoples' Representatives (Ethiopian Parliament), soon after the violence, had also endorsed the Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's proposal of the appointment of new cabinet members. Majority of the 56 defendants have so far appeared before the Ethiopian court, including former Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Cooperation, Alemayehu Gujo, the former Manager of Addis Ababa Roads Authority, Fekade Haile, and former head of Ethiopian Roads Authority Zayid WoldeGebrel. Ethiopian roads authority Communications Director, Samson Wondimu, is the latest Ethiopian government official detained on Friday in connection with the large scale anti-corruption investigation in Ethiopia's modern history. Other senior government officials from the Ethiopian Roads Authority, the Addis Ababa Roads Authority, the Ethiopian Sugar Corporation and some foreign nationals were also arrested during the crack down.

Source: Ethiopian News August 15, 2017 17:59 UTC