Name Muktar Kedir Role Politician | ||
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Prime Minister Meles ZenawiHailemariam Desalegn Prime Minister Meles ZenawiHailemariam Desalegn Alma mater Ethiopian Civil Service University | ||
EBC News Oromia Reginal President Muktar Kedir says planned protests are not authorized August 5
TPLF Agent ODF/Diim Nogo Met Muktar Kedir & Abudulaa
Muktar Kedir (Amharic: ሙክታር ፡ ከድር?) is an Ethiopian politician who was President of the Oromia Region, the country's largest region, from February 18, 2014 - September 20, 2016.
Contents
- EBC News Oromia Reginal President Muktar Kedir says planned protests are not authorized August 5
- TPLF Agent ODFDiim Nogo Met Muktar Kedir Abudulaa
- Early life and education
- Career
- Regional presidency
- References
Early life and education
Muktar was born in Jimma. He received a degree from the Ethiopian Civil Service College in law and studied at Azusa Pacific University, He received an honorary doctorate from Kyungwon University in South Korea in August 2014.
Career
Muktar joined the Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization (OPDO) in the mid-1990s, and was appointed administrator of the Jimma Zone in 1999, serving in the post until 2003. From 2008 to 2010 he served as Vice-President of the Oromia Region; here he came into conflict with the party's Christian faction for approving Wahhabist gatherings. It was revealed in a Wikileaks cable that Sheik Elias Redman, deputy chairman of the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council, accused Muktar of "colluding with Saudi Wahhabists" to undermine traditional moderate Sufi Islam, and that an armed Wahabist group was attacking "traditional mosques and imams" in the region.
In 2010 he was appointed Head of the Office of the Prime Minister and Minister for Cabinet Affairs.
From 2012 to 2014 he was one of the country's three deputy prime Ministers, serving with Debretsion Gebremichael and Demeke Mekonnen, considered "a loyal politician and trusted ally of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn" was appointed minister for the civil service.
Regional presidency
Muktar succeeded the ailing Alemayehu Atomsa as President of the Oromia Region on 18 February 2014.
