As we all know the upcoming kebele & city elections are scheduled to be
carried out in the coming month. This election is being carried out with the
intention of giving the public a chance to elect its leaders at the lower level
of administration. It is known that in Ethiopia most of the government policies
and directives are implemented by these lower levels of administration like the
sub city and the kebele offices. This kebele and sub city offices are a very
important and critical part of the government’s administration because it is
through these offices that the public gets service fromthe government. It is up
to these lower level administrative offices to either serve the public honestly
or corruptly and the whole structure of the ruling government is reflected by
these offices. So in this sense the public judges and weighs its government
based mostly on the quality of service it receives from these offices.