Statement: the Ogaden National Liberation Front [ONLF] Will Sign on the Final Peace Agreement with Ethiopia in October

Statement: the Ogaden National Liberation Front [ONLF] Will Sign on the Final Peace Agreement with Ethiopia in October

The Somali people in the Ogaden suffered a huge amount of political unrest in the region that caused many deaths and now is the time for a political solution.

The ONLF came from the people of Ogaden and will always care about its people first. The ONLF has received the peace offer from Ethiopia and have consulted with the Ogadenian intellectuals, elders, traditional leaders and its own members regarding the peace deal and all have agreed with no hesitation with the peace offer without losing their objectives.

The government and the ONLF have caused pointless losses of human life and the destruction of property. So without looking back in the past, the ONLF believes that it is the time to rethink and face the reality with regret and start changing the conflict mannerisms into one that cares for the mothers and children dying daily because of the conflict in the Ogaden region.

The ONLF is one organisation with one leader under Eng. Salahudin Abdirahman Haji Maow, and no one can confuse or stop the peace agreement accepted by the Ogaden people.

The previous leader Admiral Mohamed Omar Osman who was dishonourably discharged from the ONLF leadership in July 2007 is desperately attempting to identify wrongly the peace agreement between ONLF and Ethiopia, which originated Germany on June 2010.

Admiral Mohamed Omar Osman is not acting like one of the Ogadenian people but he is acting by himself with a few disillusioned followers that happen to be his relatives whom use to spread propaganda on the internet pages by denying the organisations' peace deal with Ethiopia.

The ONLF is willing to abide by a genuine peace settlement with the Ethiopian federal government alongside conditions in October 2010.

Ogaden National Liberation Front [ONLF]

Foreign Bureau

August 24, 2010