ሳሊኒ ፔትሮ በሕዳሴው ግድብ ምረቃ ላይ ያስተላለፉት መልዕክት — Transcript

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1. 0:02Hello.
2. 0:06President of the country is attending
3. 0:08the ceremony.
4. 0:10President of the Commission of the
5. 0:12African Union. Prime Minister of
6. 0:15Ethiopia Abi Ahmed Ali. Former Prime
7. 0:18Minister of Ethiopia Mariam Desalen.
8. 0:21Honorable member of the government of
9. 0:24the countries attending the ceremony.
10. 0:26Speakers of the houses, honorable
11. 0:29ministers, members of the parliament,
12. 0:32regional presidents, Benny Shangul
13. 0:34regional president and authorities, army
14. 0:37general and representatives,
15. 0:39distinguished guest, ladies and
16. 0:42gentlemen.
17. 0:44Let me start saying that my prime
18. 0:46minister George Maloney sends her
19. 0:48greetings to the PM Abia Medadali and
20. 0:51his government in this happy occasion
21. 0:53and her congratulation for the
22. 0:55achievement celebrated today.
23. 1:01I want to say and start with an obvious
24. 1:03thing that we all here give for granted
25. 1:06now but it wasn't so obvious before. The
26. 1:10great Ethiopian renance dam. It is
27. 1:13finally a fact after 15 years.
28. 1:18The reservoir is fully filled and the
29. 1:21power station are already generating
30. 1:24energy that will be dispatched through
31. 1:27the grid throughout all the country
32. 1:31and everything works.
33. 1:34This is my record.
34. 1:36This is fantastic. A dream came true for
35. 1:40me and for the nation.
36. 1:43How proud can I be today?
37. 1:46My heart is singing and I'm sure
38. 1:48together with the heart of all
39. 1:50Ethiopians in this school.
40. 1:54Around 35 million people will be finally
41. 1:59branched to the lines and the total
42. 2:01energy available in the country will be
43. 2:03three times what was before.
44. 2:07The equivalent power of free nuclear
45. 2:09plant together is generated here.
46. 2:13Ethiopia can sell energy to neighboring
47. 2:16country reinforcing relationship and
48. 2:19fostering development of the entire
49. 2:21region in peace.
50. 2:24I want to thank all the workers, the
51. 2:26technicians, the engineers
52. 2:29that with the endeavor and continuous
53. 2:32commitment have made this accomplishment
54. 2:34possible.
55. 2:36I want also to thank our client EPC EP
56. 2:40EC sorry with whom we share all goals
57. 2:43and work shoulderto-shoulder all those
58. 2:45years. In particular, I want to thank
59. 2:48Eshabir and Abraham
60. 2:51with whom we worked and brought this
61. 2:53project to completion during the last
62. 2:55years.
63. 2:57I want also to thank ambassador
64. 2:59Germabiru which gave most of their years
65. 3:03of his years to this project. Safety
66. 3:06first. This one was one of the safest
67. 3:10project in the world. Nonetheless, all
68. 3:14great achievement comes with a cost and
69. 3:17notwithstanding all effort deployed,
70. 3:20there is a cost which we regret the most
71. 3:23and the most unfortunately couldn't
72. 3:25avoid.
73. 3:27This job was an enormous effort of
74. 3:29workmanship and labor. More than 260
75. 3:33million working hours in this job and
76. 3:36more than 10,000 people were employed at
77. 3:40peak times to build this dam and the
78. 3:43related project and 250,000
79. 3:47hours were spent on training or for on
80. 3:51safety. But all the same we still had
81. 3:54victims. In these 15 years, 33 workers
82. 3:58lost their life in road accident and
83. 4:00other issues. I bend my head with
84. 4:03respect and say I pray for the people
85. 4:06that gave their life for this
86. 4:07achievement and for their families.
87. 4:10Their memories will not be lost.
88. 4:13Capacity building
89. 4:15was achieved in this project.
90. 4:1825,000
91. 4:20young technicians, skilled workers and
92. 4:23engineers have been training on the job.
93. 4:25This is a very important result. A very
94. 4:28scarce resource was obtained as a side
95. 4:31result. They can give an essential
96. 4:33contribution for the future of this
97. 4:35country.
98. 4:37I started with an obvious consideration
99. 4:40but it was not obvious at all when we
100. 4:42started the journey. I was working with
101. 4:45at the time PM Melis Zenawi visiting the
102. 4:49Bellis project which was under
103. 4:51construction. We were near the little
104. 4:54bay and he told me I have a dream for
105. 4:57this country energy independence
106. 5:00and abundance. Can you design a project
107. 5:03on the bay? I want a mega project at
108. 5:06least 6,000 megawatts. He stated do it
109. 5:10quickly.
110. 5:11A year after he passed away, then
111. 5:15another prime minister came was the
112. 5:17honorable Mariam Desalen. He had to make
113. 5:21difficult and tough choice, successful
114. 5:24choice as we see today. Then another PM
115. 5:28Abi Ahmed Ali took the situation in his
116. 5:31hands facing all the difficulties on
117. 5:34earth and here we are.
118. 5:37Charity of Ethiopians is tempered by
119. 5:40difficulties and ch and challenges.
120. 5:43Think at the Ethiopian runners who train
121. 5:45themselves at 2,000 m over the sea level
122. 5:49to win. No one wanted this country to
123. 5:52build this project. No one wanted to
124. 5:55finance it. Many political issue, too
125. 5:58many problems and no easy solutions. But
126. 6:01the Ethiopians are not afraid of
127. 6:03difficulties.
128. 6:08They are resilient and when they face
129. 6:10resistance or enemies they double the
130. 6:13effort and they take the best out of
131. 6:15them.
132. 6:18They do not bend or step back and
133. 6:21renounce with what they believe and
134. 6:23want.
135. 6:25Ethiopia did this project against all
136. 6:27the difficulties against all the
137. 6:29opponent against all the challenges with
138. 6:32its own resources. The Commercial Bank
139. 6:34of Ethiopia financed it and citizen did
140. 6:38their part purchasing a bond issued
141. 6:41expressly.
142. 6:43It was my dam was the mantra they said
143. 6:48and this is it. It is their dam.
144. 6:52They were opponent and fierce. Now that
145. 6:56the dam reservoir is completely filled,
146. 6:58we have demonstrated with facts what was
147. 7:01before fruit of estimate and calculation
148. 7:05not harm or damage to the water flow in
149. 7:08the downstream countries.
150. 7:10Asan dam reservoir it is at its maximum
151. 7:14level contemporaneously
152. 7:16as the g reservoir is full.
153. 7:21I want to pay a little tribute to my
154. 7:22father which gave all his life and his
155. 7:26love to to this country and to
156. 7:29Petrangeli which is the father of many
157. 7:32of the project that we did in this
158. 7:35country. I arrived in Ethiopia
159. 7:39in the 60s. Most of the people here were
160. 7:42not bored at that time and certainly
161. 7:45none of the ladies.
162. 7:48We were doing the legad dam and my
163. 7:50father was bringing me with him to visit
164. 7:53the job site. A young engineer which is
165. 7:56n now 91 years old is here was Georgio
166. 8:01Pedrangeli, author of many of the design
167. 8:04including this one.
168. 8:07I brought my son Gregorio here.
169. 8:16Bravo Georgio.
170. 8:18I brought my son Gregorio here to
171. 8:21continue the tradition.
172. 8:23My father, my grandfather before me and
173. 8:28now my son. We started the Legadas
174. 8:33and now we are here with you, Mr. Prime
175. 8:37Minister, and we deliver this project.
176. 8:41There was a time in which I came here
177. 8:43and Adisaba was dark. There was no
178. 8:46light. Power shed every day and there
179. 8:50was no light for the people.
180. 8:53Now it was a nation into the darkness.
181. 8:57Now there is light everywhere. Now
182. 8:59Ethiopia can sell energy to the
183. 9:01neighboring country. You imagine that?
184. 9:06I read about the golden of Ethiopia. But
185. 9:09the golden of Ethiopia is not the me the
186. 9:12metal the precious thing but it's the
187. 9:14water that we have above the sea level
188. 9:20on the islands and is the white oil is
189. 9:24clean and sustainable. No one else has
190. 9:27this this luck.
191. 9:30We build as built and originate and and
192. 9:32designed a large part of the project of
193. 9:35the country. More than 110,000 megawatt
194. 9:39installed for for the future of the
195. 9:42country. There is another name for
196. 9:44energy power.
197. 9:47Power and is a there is a meaning behind
198. 9:50this. Power to grow, power to connect,
199. 9:53to develop, to industrialize, to teach,
200. 9:56to heal, to build peaceful and fruitful
201. 9:59relationship. Power for the future of
202. 10:02the people.
203. 10:04Michelangelo,
204. 10:05which was a reence Italian sculpture,
205. 10:09said once that the sculpture is already
206. 10:12inside the marble block. The role of the
207. 10:16sculpture is only to take off the things
208. 10:19which are useless and you see the
209. 10:21sculpture inside it. We have the same
210. 10:24for the hydroelectric plant for the
211. 10:26future. Water is where we need. The only
212. 10:30things we have to do is to take out the
213. 10:33useless things. Dig some holes, make
214. 10:35some tunnels, build some other dams.
215. 10:39There will be other project to imagine
216. 10:40and to build. The future is only started
217. 10:44today. Thank you.