Security agents was trying inflitrating and intimedating me while I was working for Ethiopian Airlines as a computer programmer while working on a project on the General accounting system software. While I was working for the general accounting sysytem software after we have spent a year of our effort . I showed up my deligence in the Airline by performing an extra effort . The Chief information officer was attracted towards me when I developed a fuel cost optimization software which took all the airline flight inforamation into consideration such as payload, altitude , flight plan, amount of fuel that the aircraft can upload and fuel cost on each of the destinations. I got the detail flight plan information of a specific route and developed an optization software which dictates each pilot how much fuel each of the aircraft should have to tanker in each of the destination so that the overwhole round trip of a specific flight might end with the minimum fuel cost. This dynamic optimization software has supposedely saved the airline more than 2 million USD per annum than they used to use customerly without detailed pre planning. 

The whole concept of the optimization software was to allow a pilot to fully tanker more fuel on destination which have the minimum cost of fuel. But as the plane is fully tankered there are three major drawbacks. First the airplane can't uplift so much passengers or payload , which is the main revenue loss for the airline. The second problem is that the airplane will burn extra fuel because it carried extra payload which is the fuel. The third problem was the aircraft cannot maintain the optimum flight altitude which is suitable for optimum fuel consumpsion. The fourth problem which is straight forward is the aircraft will be unable to takeoff and lift up to the optimum level of altitude of flight which is airodynamically suitable for optimum fuel burn.

I was working this project for my paper for an Optimization Research caurse which I was taking under a supervision of my Professor named Harege-Work. He had a strong tie with the chief information officer of the Ethiopian Airlines, Mesfin Tassew. While I was touring all the departments of the Ethiopian Airlines by the help of Ato Mesfin Tassew,the CIO. After I was travelling through the finance department I came accross that the Airline. I came accross their big expense was the fuel cost like 40 million USD per annum. So while I went to the department of Fuel tankering after I got fuel cost of every destination , I was enlightened realized that this specific part of the Airline drawback can be relieved by the tool which I got in the operation research course. I used linear programming inorder to develop and formulate and define the problem and reach to an optimization solution which helped the airline company especially Ato Mesfin Tassew the chief information system officer which was in charge of all the Information Technology System of the Airline . I proposed what problem I identified in the fuel tankering system and he was very glad that his office was preparing and was in an analysis stage to buy an off the shelf system to incorporate with the new flight plan system which the bought a year ago. He was also an Electrical Engineer who made his  Masters in Communication Engineering and also has an MBA. He was very much interested and supportive. He began to make me solve practical flights than spend my time only on mathematical speculations and make me labour even more than for a school paper. I woked with him and toiled to my bones to make this project real. So I succeeded and make it practical and incorporate it with the existing flight planner of the Airline. Had this 2 million USD been saved by an employer the company policy declares that any saving by an employee will be rewarded. Any employee who made a saving for the Airline he would have rewaded 5% of the saving. He asked me and pushed the project to the upper officials so that I might be compensated for whatever saving I made to the company. But since I was not working in the airline the policy makers refused to let me benefit out of the employee savings reward. But He was unhappy with them and wanted to offer me a full time job and at the same time to pursue my post graduate studies and also he offered me a trainning. So I accepted the offer and started working for the airline. When I joined the airline the Airline has lost 30 million birr in debt . After a year I joined the Airline, the Airline has earned a profit of 40 million Ethiopian birr. The CEO even mention Fuel tankering as the reason for the profitability of the company. More than the reward or 5% money . The confidence and moral to be a souce of such a tremendous profit to a big organization such as Ethiopian Airlines made me feel proud and have confidence in myself and gave me a meaning in life and great success.

Soon after I was hired I became the key player to on going general accounting software system development . They were lagging behind to proceed the project as they were not sure what kind of Database management system should they have to use. Since I had a solid prior knowledge of Oracle , I recommended it to the Chief Information officer due to its scalability, security , perforance and reliability of Oracle database Management System . Since He had a confidence in me he accepted my proposal and even wanted me to work in the project as a lead with the one who developed the system analysis of the accounting system. I was given responsibility to stir the programmers working and to supervise the software development.

But soon the programmers who were assigned before were not happy about my placement. They were not happy my affiliation with the CIO , because he was very much interested of my deligence and performance. They even hated me because he let me go to school even during the office hours as a full time student for my post graduate studies. And they were made even bitter when the CIO let me learn three Oracle database trainning courses while they were only sent to only the developers trainning course. This advantage and benefit which I gained through my hard work and deligence exposed me to a big time hatred. So they were trying to jepordize which so ever way they got advantage and opportunity  They were always trying 

But rivals who hated my 

However, my ethnic identity got me into problem once again. Although I never discriminated people based on their race, color or religion, I became the victim of discrimination motivated by greed and politics. As I became successful and famous for my good work and admired by my bosses, my rivals began to dig “dirt” and to disseminate information that I am Eritrean and that I was dismissed from Security, Immigration and Refugee Affairs before. In a highly orchestrated smear campaign, my rivals also convinced some of the upper echelon that I am responsible for the computer failures in the airlines and meant to sabotage the good image of the airline industry and tried their best in getting me dismissed.  

 I was graduating from Addis Abab university.

I was graduating from a post graduate studies at Addis Ababa university. Two of my friends named Solomon Gebremedhin and Mulugeta Mehari came to my home to say congratulations on my graduation on July 28, 2003 two days after my graduation. Because they were not able to come and say congratulations on my graduation day. We get out of my house and went to a cofee shop which was near the imperial hotel. We were having te and cofee while we were watching Television.

It was the time when the UN Border Commission decision was released by the foreign minister in July 28, 2003. Two friends of mine, namely Solomon Gebremedhin and Mulugeta Mehari and I were sitting in a coffee shop, watching the news on TV when the news was about UN Commissions decision on the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Initially, the Ethiopian government had wrongly announced that the town of Badme, the flash point for the war, was awarded to Ethiopia.  Then they changed the story and news brief from the Ministry of Affairs stated that Badme was wrongfully awarded to Eritrea and that the UN Commission was biased and favored Eritrea. My friends, who are Eritreans showed their happiness on the news and clapped their hands. 

I was so afraid so that I told Solomon to call the waitress and pay the bill. After  he told her she went and were waiting for the bill to be processed . She took time to process the payment . Solomon went and made an argument that to give him the bill so that he can pay. She had a quarrel with him and finally he gave the money on the bancony and three of us try to go out in haste. All of a sudden before we can make it to the outside of the compound   while  

Before I knew it, about half an hour later two armed security agents and a police man came and said they want to talk to us for a while and asked us to follow them. When we hesitated they showed us their IDs. The security men took us to a car parked in an alley and drove us to Wereda 17 Police Station. At the police station, I was thrown into a small dark cell. 

The next day, a prison guard came to my cell and took me to an interrogation room where two security officers questioned me. The officers asked me to explain what I know about the computer system failure at the Ethiopian Airlines, if I have any contact with the Eritrean government and to identify my association with those friends who work for the Eritrean government in clandestine. I told the security men that I have no connection with the Eritrean government and I know no one who works for that government. As far us the computer problem is concerned, it has nothing to do with me but I did my best to fix the problem. However the security men accused me of involving in sabotaging the nations leading industry and told me that they already got information from several sources that I am responsible for the failure of the computer system and beat me with sticks and hit me with boots. In prison, I was beaten and interrogated at different times. While I was suffering in prison, my uncle Amha Gebremariam contacted a security official to secure my release. Then I was released on August 14, 2003 and I had to sign a statement that my case is under investigation and that I will present myself to the Woreda 17 Police Station whenever I am wanted.

While The chief interrogator was sitting when I was getting to an office where there is a table and two chairs where the room number was number 9. The chief interrogator was sitting on the other side while the official sitting besides me having a wood stub on the shelf which is at the corner of the room. The chief security officer  asked where I was working and living.
. The chief security officer was asking me what my link was with those guys. I told them that they are my friends and tried to know how I know them and how our relationship was. I told them I knew them while I was at school while I was undergraduate students and since then we see each other.  The officer who was beside me was asking me with a harsh , intimidating me by his staring eyes and shouting that you are agents and spies of the Eritrean government. I told them I have no relationship with Eritrean government  that they are accusing me of . So they asked me why we expressed our happiness over the unruling injustice of the UN border commission, which was biases . I told him that I didn't express my joy on the injustice ruling of the UN boarder commision. I told them that I am an inocent citizen who doesn't involve in any anti government activity and want to support myself and my family by working hard peacefully. He punched me in my face and spit on me saying there are peoples in the coefee shop which have seen you express your joy on the decission And they accused me that I was also a sympathizer of the Eritrean government and working with two of my friends trying working spying and conspiring against the well being of a peaceful big nation. They insulted me calling tafia shaebia, you are the most dangerous eritreans who live amongst us who are working in clandestine and conspiring and transmitting information to the eritrean government.  While they were interrogating me they were beating with boots and with the club trying to convince me that I did . While I was telling them that I have nothing to do with whatsoever accusation leverred on me they keep on beating me with the stick and with boots. They finally asked where I was working and living and taken me to the dark cell again threatening that I will confess the truth or suffer stinking in jail.

After three days the security guard came to my cell took me to the interogation room again. The security officials shouted on me and said that the deep reason and source of our organization and friendship and what we are working together have been known for sure that what you were doing together is conspiring with those Eritrrean friend of yours that u were  gathering and conspiring to spy the intelligence information of the country and transmitting the information to the Eritrean government in cladestine . They said we are sure by now that you are spies and agents of the eritrean government under cladestine to weaken the strong solidarity of the ethiopian people . While I told them that I have no relationship with the Eritrean government and I have nothing to do with the all accusations and told them all my innocence,, they accused me of being involved with problems with the Ethiopian Airlines that I wanted to damage the good image of the ethiopian airlines by sabotaging the computer system failure and your association with these Eritreans who work for the Eritrean government in Cladestine is a living proof that I was deliberatiny involved in the flaw of the computer system in the Airline. While I was trying to convince them that I have nothing to do with what they are alleging me of and explaining that the computer system is just a normal software lifecycle. they harmed me by beating me , punch me and beat my back with clubs . They also kicked me even if I have nothing to do with and not responsible for what they were accusing me.

They used to take me to the interogation room as often as in 3 days interval four times. 

The next day, a prison guard came to my cell and took me to an interrogation room where two security officers questioned me. The officers asked me to explain what my link is with the Eritrtean guys who showed their pleasure in the injustice ruling the UN to the Eritrean Government. They asked me if I was working with an Eritrean Government. They tried to convince me they had a strong evidence the friends that I was affiliated with are spies to the Eritrean government who are working for the eritrean government in cladestine to weaken the Ethiopian people morally and to transmit internal inteligence information to a country who is already engaging a war. They were spiting and insulting me saying you are "Tafia Shaebiya" who are send and perporating support your fathers wish of evil act against the Ethiopian people and government. You " Tafia Shaebia" you didn't stop rebelling against our people even if you are given a second chance. You are not changing evenif the Ethiopian governmet gave you mercy and second chance to be reinstituted to live in the country. We were impaired with our judgments  And not deporting you dog as u deserve as your father. During the accusation I was trying to convince and defend my innocence that is when I was telling them I was a good citizen and nothing to do with the outburst explanation of the joy And nothing to do with whatever thing I was alleged of one of them bit me in a punch and the other hit me with a club at my back shouting at my face to shut up and asking me what the allegation of the computer failure in Ethiopian Airlines. The agent insulted me and slaped my face   saying you liar Shaebia  you had alreay been endagered the well being of the prestigious company The officers asked me to explain what I know about the computer system failure at the Ethiopian Airlines, if I have any contact with the Eritrean government and to identify my association with those friends who work for the Eritrean government in clandestine. I told the security men that I have no connection with the Eritrean government and I know no one who works for that government. As far us the computer problem is concerned, it has nothing to do with me but I did my best to fix the problem. However the security men accused me of involving in sabotaging the nations leading industry and told me that they already got information from several sources that I am responsible for the failure of the computer system and beat me with sticks and hit me with boots. In prison, I was beaten and interrogated at different times. While I was suffering in prison, my uncle Amha Gebremariam contacted a security official to secure my release. Then I was released on August 14, 2003 and I had to sign a statement that my case is under investigation and that I will present myself to the Woreda 17 Police Station whenever I am wanted.