On-Going ANDM Conference Discusses CC Assessment Report 

 Bahir-Dar August, 14 (ENA)--The Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM) has continued deliberating on the central committee assessment report, which is part of the on-going renewal movement of the conference since August 8.

 The conference has endorsed the evaluation report of the central committee on the political system and the dangers posed against it after looking at length into the report.

 The conference during deliberations has identified lack of transparency within the central committee concerning the nature of free market economy and the difficulties posed in building the system.

 The conference reached a consensus that this lack of transparency had remained to be a hurdle in deploying the various communities, which are the bases of revolutionary democracy.

 Lack of transparency within the central committee has also made it difficult to differentiate between constructive entrepreneurship and that of illicit investment, according to information obtained from the office of ANDM. 

The participants have commended that the constructive measures taken by the movement to mitigate the spread of corruption has enabled to effectively utilize public fund for its intended purposes.

 The participants have also underscored the need to strengthen the strong points practiced and rectify weaknesses identified during the last ten years.

 Meanwhile, the participants of the conference said the news story that was disseminated by ETV on Sunday alleging that the conference has discovered the existence of a high-scale corruption among the executives of ANDM was "far from the truth", which they described, as irresponsible and unprofessional. 

    In fact, with regard to corruption participants of the conference have reached an agreement that there was no high-scale corruption within the leadership of the movement and that utmost efforts were exerted to rectify minor problems identified to that end.

     The office of ANDM said on its part that the news story was misleading and distorts the fundamental truth, adding that the movement assured the public that this kind of unfounded information was not given by the office during the course of the conference at any time.

 The office has also called upon pertinent bodies to take appropriate measures against ETV and urged that the office of ANDM is the sole provider of accurate information about the progress of the conference.

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